The Russian Special Army was a
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
Russian field army that fought on the
Eastern Front.
Field management was established in August 1916.
The Army was named ''Special'' because it was thought that the name ''13th Army'' would
bring bad luck.
Composition
At the end of 1917 the army consisted of:
*
31st Army Corps
*
39th Army Corps
*
44th Army Corps
* XLVI Corps
* I Turkestan Army Corps
* IV Cavalry Corps
* VII Cavalry Corps
Deployment
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Western Front (August–September 1916)
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Southwestern Front (September–November 1916)
*
Western Front (November 1916 – July 1917)
*
Southwestern Front (July 1917 – early 1918)
Commanders
The commanders of the Army were:
* 14.08.1916 – 10.11.1916 - General of Cavalry
Vasily Gurko
Vasily Iosifovich Romeyko-Gurko (; 20 May 1864 in Tsarskoye Selo – 11 February 1937) served for a brief period as a Chief-of-Staff of the Imperial Russian Army before being forced out of the country in exile following the October Revolution of 1 ...
* 10.11.1916 – 17.02.1917 - General of Infantry
Pyotr Baluyev
Pyotr Semyonovich Baluyev (Russian: Пётр Семёнович Балу́ев; 21 June 1857 – 1923) was an army general in the Imperial Russian Army and commander of the Southwestern Front from 24 July 1917 to 31 July 1917.
Biography
Baluy ...
* 17.02.1917 – 31.03.1917 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko
* 02.04.1917 – 09.07.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev
* 12.07.1917 – 29.08.1917 - General of Cavalry
Ivan Erdélyi
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was the Bu ...
* 29.08.1917 – 14.09.1917 - Acting Major General Vasily Sarychev
* 14.09.1917 – 20.11.1917 - General of Infantry Stepan Stelnitsky
* 11.1917 - Acting Colonel
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov or Egorov () ( – 23 February 1939) was a Soviet military leader and one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union.
Yegorov was born in Samara to a middle-class family. He joined the Imperial Russian Army in 190 ...
* 20.11.1917 – 13.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Theodore Rerberg
* 13.12.1917 – 19.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Alex Kushakevich
* 12.19.1917 – 03.1918 - Colonel
Vladimir Yegoryev
Vladimir Nikolayevich Yegoryev (; March 16, 1869 – September 20, 1948) was a military commander and military expert of the Russian Empire, Russian SFSR, and Soviet Union.
World War I
From November 10, 1914, he was commander of the ...
See also
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List of Russian armies in World War I
Russian army formations in World War I include:
* 1st Army
* 2nd Army
* 3rd Army
* 4th Army
* 5th Army
* 6th Army
* 7th Army
* 8th Army
* 9th Army
* 10th Army
* 11th Army
* 12th Army
* 13th Army
* Caucasus Army
* Dobruja Army
* ...
References
{{Russian Empire Ground Forces
Field armies of Russia in World War I
Military units and formations established in 1916
1916 establishments in the Russian Empire
Military units and formations established in 1918