12th Army (Russian Empire)
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12th Army |
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 Coat of arms of the Imperial Russian Army |
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| active | 1915-1917 |
| Country |
 Russian Empire
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| Armed forces |
Imperial Russian Army
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| Type | army |
| Butcher | First World War |
The 12th Army of the Russian Empire was an army that was used during the First World War . The army was formed in January 1915 and disbanded in 1917.
history
AOK 12 was established in mid-January 1915 to reinforce the Narew Front against the German Army Group Gallwitz . The Commander-in-Chief General Plehwe had about 13 infantry and 2nd cavalry divisions:
- The 2nd Siberian Army Corps (Lieutenant General Sychevsky ) stood on the left wing between Różan and Ostrolenka .
- In the center the V Army Corps stopped in the area northeast of Ostrolenka, to the right of it the IV Siberian Army Corps covered the Lomscha fortress .
- On the right wing, the Guard Corps (General of the Cavalry Besobrasow ) and the 4th Cavalry Division covered the Narew section as far as the Osowiec fortress.
In February 1915, the left wing of the 12th Army successfully attacked in support of the 1st Army (under General Alexander Litvinov ) attacked in the Przasnysz area . From July 14, 1915, the successful German Narew offensive made the front unsustainable. After the Great Retreat , Army High Command 12, withdrawn to the east, established itself on the northernmost section of the Eastern Front . The newly formed 12th Army under General Gorbatowski took over the Dune Line between Riga and Friedrichstadt. At the end of August 1915, the 12th Army was under the II., VI. and VII. Siberian Corps with about 8 infantry and 2 cavalry divisions. On the left wing to the southeast, the 5th Army joined between Jakobstadt and Dünaburg .
In the battles on the Aa from January 5 to 11, 1917 (Julian calendar December 23 to 29, 1916), the 12th Army launched an offensive against the positions of the German 8th Army in the area north of Mitau . The fighting was fought in the area of the Tirel marshes south of the Babīte lake, the VI. Siberian Army Corps was in the main battlefield. The intended breakthrough could not be achieved. At the beginning of September 1917, the 12th Army had to surrender the capital of Latvia to the German troops after the battle for Riga .
Commanders
- Pawel Adamowitsch von Plehwe (January 14, 1915 - June 8, 1915)
- Alexei Yevgrafowitsch Tschurin (June 8, 1915 - August 20, 1915)
- Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Gorbatowski (August 20, 1915 - March 20, 1916)
- Radko Dimitriew (March 20, 1916 - July 20, 1917)
- Dmitri Pavlovich Parski (July 20, 1917 - September 9, 1917)
- Jakow Dawidowitsch Yusefowitsch (September 9 - November 19, 1917)
- Vasily Fyodorovich Novitsky (November 1917)
- Dawid Konstantinowitsch Gunzadze (late November - late December 1917)
- College (December 1917 - April 1918)