1st Manchurian Army (Russian Empire)

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1st Manchurian Army

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Coat of arms of the Imperial Russian Army
active September 1904 to February 1906
Country Russian Empire 1721Russian Empire Russian Empire
Armed forces Russian Empire 1721Russian Empire Imperial Russian Army
Type army
Strength about 100,000 men
Butcher Russo-Japanese War
Battle of the Shaho
Battle of Sandepu
Battle of Mukden
Supreme command
list of Commander in chief

The 1st Manchurian Army ( Russian 1-й Маньчжурская армия , 1-j Mantschurskaja armija ) was a large unit of the Imperial Russian Army . It was established in September 1904 and dissolved in February 1906.

history

After the lost battle of Liaoyang , Tsar Nicholas II decided that the Russian forces deployed in Manchuria should no longer be commanded by a single commander and therefore divided the Manchurian Army into the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Manchurian Army . In September 1904 the 1st Manchurian Army was set up under the command of Lieutenant General Nikolai Linewitsch . In mid-January 1905 it comprised 127 battalions , 43 squadrons and 360 field guns and had a total strength of around 100,000 men. On March 15, 1905, General Alexei Kuropatkin took command of the army. She took part in the battles of the Shaho , Sandepu and Mukden .

After the end of the war, the 1st Manchurian Army was disbanded in February 1906.

structure

Commander in chief

Surname From To
1. General Nikolai Petrovich Linevich September 1904 March 15, 1905
2. General Alexei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin March 15, 1905 February 1906

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Kowner, p. 220
  2. ^ Kowner, p. 221
  3. Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kuropatkin : The Russian army and the Japanese war, being historical and critical comments on the military policy and power of Russia and on the campaign in the Far East. Volume 2, EP Dutton and Company, New York 1909, p. 258 ( digitized ).
  4. Kowner, p. 220