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The Russian railway network in 1912. Russia was one of the major belligerents in the First World War: from August 1914 to December 1917, it fought on the Entente's side against the Central Powers. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire was a great power in terms of its vast territory, population, and agricultural resources.
The Ottoman Empire's entry into the war, by attacking Russia's Black Sea coast on 29th October 1914, presented new opportunities, but Russia was too strained to capitalize on them. On 3rd November British warships bombarded the outer forts of the Dardanelles Straits, the beginning of the ill fated Gallipoli campaign .
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Map showing subdivisions of the Russian Empire in 1914 Residence of the governor of Moscow (1778–82) as seen in 2015. As of 1914, Russia was divided into 81 governorates , 20 oblasts, and 1 okrug. Vassals and protectorates of the Russian Empire included the Emirate of Bukhara, the Khanate of Khiva, and, after 1914, Tuva (Uriankhai).
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In the years prior to 1914, Austro-Russian co-operation was both crucial for European peace and difficult to maintain. Old suspicions exacerbated by the Bosnian crisis stood in the way of agreement between the two empires, as did ethnic sensitivities. The Russian military was the largest in the world consisting of 1,400,000 men.
Russia is divided into ru-kgd for the Kaliningrad Oblast and ru-main for the Main body of Russia. There is the additional grouping #xb for the "British Islands" (the UK with its Crown Dependencies - Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man) Contributors.
Russia in 1914 Demographics of pre-WW1 European countries. The central development in Russian foreign policy was to move away from Germany and toward France. Russia had never been friendly with France, and remembered the wars in the Crimean and the Napoleonic invasion; it saw Paris as a dangerous front of subversion and ridiculed the weak governments there.