The 176th Perevolochna Infantry Regiment () was a reserve

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in the

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that fought during

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as part of the 44th Infantry Division.

Origins

The regiment traced its seniority back to the formation of the 27th Reserve Infantry Battalion from a cadre of the Poltava Local Battalion on 31 July 1877. It was redesignated as the 64th Reserve Infantry Battalion (Cadre) on 10 October 1878, and granted an unadorned banner on 31 March 1880. The battalion received the designation

Perevolochna Perevolochna () is a former fortress and town in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Cossack Hetmanate, and later a village in Poltava Oblast. Before the establishment of Kamianske Water Reservoir in the 1960s, here also existed a river cr ...

Reserve Battalion on 25 March 1891, and expanded into the two battalion-189th Perevolochna Reserve Infantry Regiment on 1 December 1892. It was reorganized as the four battalion-176th Perevolochna Infantry Regiment on 1 January 1898.

World War I

At the outbreak of

, the 176th Perevolochensky Regiment was part of the 21st Army Corps and quartered at

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. Upon mobilisation, the regiment was immediately transferred to its winter barracks so that the summer camp could be used by the 316th Khvalinsky Regiment. At that time, the regiment was under the command of

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, who gave the troops a patriotic speech before marching them to the railway station at

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. Bonch-Bruyevich experienced some problems with maintaining discipline. However, he was lenient with a group of 100 soldiers who had gone

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and another group of drunken reservists who had tried to give a beating to Captain Kotsubinsky, the unpopular commanding officer of the 7th Company. The unit travelled via

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, whence it joined the 44th Infantry Division at Torgovitsy.''From Tsarist General to Red Army Commander'' by Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich, translated by Vladimir Vezey,

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, 1966, pp. 7–14

Engagements

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(26 - 30 August 1914)

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* Infantry regiments of the Russian Empire Chernigov Governorate Military units and formations established in 1877 Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 1877 establishments in the Russian Empire {{Mil-unit-stub