1st Siberian Army Corps (Russian Empire)

1st Siberian Army Corps
active	May 1900 to August 1918
Country	Russian Empire
Armed forces	Imperial Russian Army
Type	corps
Strength	about 30,000 men
Location	Amur Military District
Butcher	Russo-Japanese War Battle of Te-li-ssu Battle of Tashihchiao Battle of Liaoyang Battle of Sandepu Battle of Mukden First World War Battle of Lake Narach
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 1st Siberian Army Corps was a large unit of the Imperial Russian Army . It was established in May 1900 and disbanded in 1918.

history

In May 1900, the 1st Siberian Army Corps was set up in the Amur Military District under the command of Lieutenant General Nikolai Linewitsch .

During the Russo-Japanese War it took part in the battles of Te-li-ssu , Tashihchiao , Liaoyang , Sandepu and Mukden , making it one of the most widely used large Russian units during the war. The army corps was part of the Russian armed forces that were supposed to re-establish the connection with the besieged Port Arthur . The attempt at relief failed, however, because the army corps was exposed to repeated attacks by the Japanese 2nd Army , which pushed the Russians further and further towards Mukden along the Port Arthur-Mukden railway line.

The Army Corps took part in World War I and was disbanded in 1918.

structure

1900

• 1st East Siberian Rifle Division (Lieutenant General Gerngross)
  • 1st Brigade (Major General Rutowski)
    • 1st Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 2nd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 2nd Brigade (Major General Maximowitsch)
    • 3rd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 4th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 1st East Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade (Major General Lutschowski)
    • 4 field artillery batteries (6 guns each)
• 9th East Siberian Rifle Division (Major General Kondratovich)
  • 1st Brigade (Major General Krause)
    • 33rd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 34th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 2nd Brigade (Major General Sükow)
    • 35th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 36th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 9th East Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade (Major General Mrosowski)
    • 4 field artillery batteries (6 guns each)
• 1 machine gun company
• Ussuri Cavalry Brigade
  • Frontier Guard Cavalry Regiment (4 Sotnias [companies])
  • Border Guard artillery battery (4 Chinese mountain cannons)
  • Primorsk Dragoon Regiment
  • 2. Transbaikal Cossack battery
  • 1st East Siberian Engineer Battalion

1914

• 1st Siberian Infantry Division
• 2nd Siberian Infantry Division
• Ussuri Cavalry Brigade
• 1st Siberian Artillery Battalion
• 2nd Siberian Heavy Artillery Battalion
• 1st Siberian Pontoon Battalion
• 1st Siberian Radio Battalion

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	Lieutenant General Nikolai Petrovich Linewitsch	May 1900	July 1903
2.	Lieutenant General Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov	November 1903	April 1904
3.	Lieutenant General Georgi Karlowitsch von Stackelberg	April 1904	March 1905
4th	Lieutenant General Alexander Alexejewitsch Gerngross	May 1905	June 1910
5.	Lieutenant General Jakow Fyodorowitsch Schkinsky	June 1910	April 1911
6th	Lieutenant General Arkady Nikanorowitsch Nishchenkov	April 1911	May 1912
7th	Lieutenant General Michail Michailowitsch Pleschkow	May 1912	July 1916
8th.	Lieutenant General Yevgeny Andreyevich Iskritsky	July 1916	1918

literature

• Rotem Kowner (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War . Scarecrow, ISBN 0-8108-4927-5 .

Web links

• Russian Manchurian Army, beginning August 1904

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kowner, p. 92
2. ^ Kowner, p. 93