3rd Manchurian Army (Russian Empire)

3rd Manchurian Army
Coat of arms of the Imperial Russian Army
active	December 1904 to February 1906
Country	Russian Empire
Armed forces	Imperial Russian Army
Type	army
Strength	about 57,000 men
Butcher	Russo-Japanese War Battle of Sandepu Battle of Mukden
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 3rd Manchurian Army ( Russian 3-й Маньчжурская армия , 3-j Mantschurskaja armija ) was a large unit of the Imperial Russian Army . It was established in December 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 December 1904 the 3rd Manchurian Army was set up under the command of General Alexander von Kaulbars . In January 1905 it comprised 72 battalions , 18 squadrons , 294 field guns and 110 mortars and siege guns and had a strength of around 57,000 men. On February 12, 1905, General Alexander von Bilderling took command of the army, followed by General Mikhail Ivanovich Batyanow in May 1905. The army took part in the battles of Sandepu and Mukden .

After the end of the war, the 3rd Manchurian Army was disbanded in February 1906.

structure

• 5th Siberian Army Corps
  • 54th Infantry Division
  • 71st Infantry Division
• 6th Siberian Army Corps
  • 55th Infantry Division
  • 72nd Infantry Division
• 16th Army Corps
  • 25th Infantry Division
  • 41st Infantry Division
• 17th Army Corps
  • 3rd Infantry Division
  • 35th Infantry Division

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	General Alexander von Kaulbars	December 1904	February 12, 1905
2.	General Alexander von Bilderling	February 12, 1905	May 1905
3.	General Mikhail Ivanovich Batyanov	May 1905	February 1906

literature

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

Web links

• Organization of the Russian Armies in Mandchuria, January 14, 1905 , English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kowner, p. 221
2. ↑ 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 ).
3. ↑ Kowner, p. 220