2nd Siberian Army Corps (Russian Empire)

2nd Siberian Army Corps
active	1900 to August 1918
Country	Russian Empire
Armed forces	Imperial Russian Army
Type	corps
Strength	about 30,000 men
Location	Irkutsk Military District
Butcher	Russo-Japanese War Battle of Hsimucheng Battle of Liaoyang Battle of Mukden First World War
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 2nd Siberian Army Corps was a large unit of the Imperial Russian Army . It was established in 1900 and dissolved in 1918.

history

In 1900 the 2nd Siberian Army Corps was set up in the Irkutsk Military District under the command of Lieutenant General Baron von Kaulbars .

During the Russo-Japanese War , it took part in the battles of Hsimucheng , Liaoyang and Mukden .

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

structure

1900

• 1st Siberian Infantry Division (Lieutenant General Morozov)
  • 1st brigade
    • 1st Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 2nd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 2nd brigade
    • 3rd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 4th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 1st Siberian Artillery Brigade
    • 4 field artillery batteries (6 guns each)
• 5th East Siberian Rifle Division (Major General Alexejew)
  • 1st Brigade (Major General Okulitsch)
    • 17th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 18th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 2nd Brigade (Major General Pulitov)
    • 19th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 20th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
• 1 machine gun company
• 3rd East Siberian Engineer Battalion

1914

• 4th Siberian Infantry Division
• 5th Siberian Infantry Division
• Transbaikal Cossack Brigade
• 2nd Siberian Artillery Battalion
• 1st Siberian Heavy Artillery Battalion
• 2nd Siberian Pontoon Battalion

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	Lieutenant General Baron von Kaulbars	July 1900	April 1901
2.	Lieutenant General Georgi Karlowitsch von Stackelberg	April 1901	November 1902
3.	Lieutenant General Mikhail Ivanovich Sassulitsch	July 1903	1906
4th	Lieutenant General Vladimir Vasilyevich Smirnov	June 1906	July 1908
5.	Lieutenant General Eris Chan Sultan Girei Aliyev	August 1908	February 1914
6th	Lieutenant General Arkady Valentinovich Sychevsky	February 1914	May 1915
7th	Lieutenant General Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Lissowski	May 1915	June 1915
8th.	General of the Infantry Radko Dimitriev	June 1915	October 1915
9.	Lieutenant General Ivan Konstantinowitsch Gandurin	October 1915	March 1917
10.	Lieutenant General Nikolai Semjonowitsch Trikowski	April 1917	July 1917
11.	Lieutenant General Vasili Fyodorowitsch Novitsky	July 1917	1918

literature

• Kowner, Rotem (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. 94
2. ^ Kowner, p. 94