3rd Siberian Army Corps (Russian Empire)

3rd Siberian Army Corps
Russian 76-mm M1900 field guns of the 3rd Siberian Army Corps during the Russo-Japanese War.
active	August 1900 to 1918
Country	Russian Empire
Armed forces	Imperial Russian Army
Type	corps
Strength	about 30,000 men
Location	Irkutsk Military District
Butcher	Russo-Japanese War Land battle on the Yalu Battle of Motien Pass Battle of Liaoyang Battle of Mukden First World War
Supreme command
list of	Commander in chief

The 3rd Siberian Army Corps was a large unit of the Imperial Russian Army . It was set up in August 1900 and disbanded in 1918.

history

In 1900 the 3rd Siberian Army Corps was set up in the Irkutsk Military District under the command of Lieutenant General Sergei Mylov .

During the Russo-Japanese War it took part in the battles at Yalu , Motien-Pass , Liaoyang and Mukden and was, along with the 1st Siberian Army Corps , one of the most widely used large Russian units during the war.

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

structure

1900

• 3rd East Siberian Rifle Division (Lieutenant General Kaschtalinsky)
  • 1st Brigade (Major General Mordanov)
    • 9th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 10th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 2nd Brigade (Major General Stolzin)
    • 11th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 12th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 3rd East Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade (Colonel Schwerin)
    • 4 field artillery batteries (6 guns each)
• 6th Siberian Infantry Division (Major General Denilov)
  • 1st Brigade (Major General Jazinin)
    • 21st Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 22nd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 2nd Brigade (Major General Krishchinsky)
    • 23rd Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
    • 24th Infantry Regiment (3 battalions)
  • 6th East Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade (Colonel Meister)
    • 4 field artillery batteries (6 76 mm M1900 field guns each )
• 1. Mounted Mountain Artillery Battery (6 guns)
• Ussuri Cossack Regiment (5 Sotnias [companies])
• 2nd East Siberian Engineer Battalion

1914

• 7th Siberian Infantry Division
• 8th Siberian Infantry Division
• 3rd Siberian Artillery Battalion

Commander in chief

	Surname	From	To
1.	Lieutenant General Sergei Nikolayevich Mylov	August 1900	January 1901
2.	Lieutenant General Anatoly Michailowitsch Stößel	February 1904	May 1904
3.	Lieutenant General Fyodor Eduardowitsch Keller	May 1904	July 1904
4th	Lieutenant General Nikolai Iudowitsch Ivanov	August 1904	March 1905
5.	Lieutenant General Nikolai Kashtalinsky	March 1905	September 1905
6th	Lieutenant General Paul von Rennenkampff	June 1906	December 1906
7th	Lieutenant General Nikolai Nikolaevich Fleischer	December 1906	July 1907
8th.	Lieutenant General Yevgeny Alexandrovich Radkewitsch	June 1908	1912
9.	Lieutenant General Vladimir Jegorowitsch Bucholz	September 1912	April 1913
10.	Lieutenant General Vladimir Petrovich Korneev	April 1913	August 1914
11.	General of the Infantry Yevgeny Alexandrovich Radkewitsch	August 1914	April 1915
12.	Lieutenant General Vladimir Onufrijewitsch Trofimov	April 1915	April 1917
13.	Lieutenant General Vladimir Fyodorovich Junkovsky	October 1917	December 1917

literature

• Kowner, Rotem (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War . Scarecrow, ISBN 0-8108-4927-5 .
• Colonel Gertsch, Fritz (1907). From the Russo-Japanese War 1904/1905, Volume 1 . Swiss Army.

Web links

• Russian Manchurian Army, beginning August 1904

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kowner, p. 95
2. ^ Kowner, p. 95
3. ↑ Colonel Gertsch, p. 39
4. ^ Kowner, p. 95
5. ↑ Colonel Gertsch, p. 39
6. ^ The Russo-Japanese War, Collier's War Correspondents, 1904
7. ^ Kowner, p. 95
8. ^ Kowner, p. 95
9. ^ Kowner, p. 95
10. ^ Kowner, p. 95