5th Army (Russian Empire)
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5th Army |
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 Coat of arms of the Imperial Russian Army |
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| active | 1914 to 1918 |
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 Russian Empire
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| Armed forces |
Imperial Russian Army
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| Type | army |
| Butcher | First World War |
The 5th Army of the Russian Empire was an army during the First World War was used. It was activated on the Eastern Front in early August 1914 after Russia entered the First World War and dissolved in 1918.
history
1914
General Plehwe's army was assigned to the Southwest Front under General Nikolai Ivanov and had orders through the Polish province of Lublin to break into the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia via Cholm . At the beginning of the war, the 5th Army had four corps with around 13 divisions.
- 5th Corps (Gen. of Cav. Alexander Ivanovich Litvinov ) - 7th and 10th divisions
- XVII. Corps (Gen. of Inf. Pyotr Petrovich Jakowlew ) - 3rd and 35th Divisions, 61st Reserve Division
- XIX. Corps (Gen. of Inf. Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Gorbatowski ) - 17th and 38th Divisions, 69th Reserve Division
- XXV. Corps (Gen. of Inf. Dmitri Petrovich Sujew ) - 3rd Grenadier Division, 46th Division, 70th Reserve Division
- 7th and 8th Cavalry Divisions
On August 26, 1914, the 5th Army between Zamosc and Tomaszow was attacked by the Austro-Hungarian 4th Army under General von Auffenberg and pushed back north in a frontal battle in the Battle of Komarów until the beginning of September. Despite the tactical failure, the Russian 5th Army was able to resume its advance southward after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army in the area east of Lemberg. General Plehwe intervened decisively with his left wing in the Battle of Rawa Ruska (September 3rd to 11th, 1914), the victory won together with the Russian 3rd Army, brought Lviv and all of Eastern Galicia into Russian hands.
1915
1916
The 5th Army had been subordinate to General of the Cavalry Vasily Gurko since the spring of 1916 and participated as part of the Northwest Front with the following corps groups as the northern attack wing in the Battle of Lake Naroch .
- 1st Siberian Corps under General Pleschkow with the 1st and 2nd Siberian Divisions
- I. Corps under General Dushkievich with the 22nd and 59th Divisions
- XXVII. Corps under General Balanin with the 45th and 76th Divisions
- 3rd Caucasian Corps under Artillery General Irmanov with 21st and 52nd Divisions
- 7th Cavalry Corps under General Tumanow with the 6th and 8th Cavalry Divisions
Commanders
- Pawel Adamowitsch von Plehwe (July 19, 1914 - January 14, 1915)
- Alexei Yevgrafowitsch Tschurin (January 14, 1915 - June 8, 1915)
- Pawel Adamowitsch von Plehwe (June 8, 1915 - December 6, 1915)
- Wladislaw Napoleonowitsch Klembowski (December 6, 1915 - January 30, 1916)
- Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kuropatkin (January 30, 1916 - February 20, 1916)
- Wassili Iossifowitsch Gurko (February 21, 1916 - August 4, 1916)
- Vladimir Alexeyevich Sljusarenko (short-term substitute)
- Abram Michailowitsch Dragomirow (August 14, 1916 - April 27, 1917)
- Yuri Nikiforowitsch Danilow (April 29, 1917 - September 9, 1917)
- Vasily Georgievich Boldyrev (September 9, 1917 - November 13, 1917)
- Panteleimon Grigoryevich Sukhanov (November 13, 1917 - January 1918)
literature
- Austria-Hungary's Last War 1914–1918 Volume I. The war year 1914 , Verlag der Militärwissenschaftlichen Mitteilungen, Vienna 1930
- Anton Wagner: The First World War , troop service paperback, Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 1981