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The strategic goals of the Caucasus campaign for Ottoman forces was to retake Artvin, Ardahan, Kars, and the port of Batum. A success in this region would mean a diversion of Russian forces to this front from the Polish and Galician fronts. [19] A Caucasus campaign would have a distracting effect on Russian forces. The plan found sympathy with ...
The Caucasus Front (Russian: Кавказский фронт) was a major formation of the army of the Russian Republic (the successor to the Imperial Russian Army) during the First World War. It was established in April 1917 by reorganization of the Russian Caucasus Army and formally ceased to exist in March 1918.
The Russian Caucasus Army (Russian: Кавказскaя армия) of World War I was the Russian field army that fought in the Caucasus Campaign and Persian Campaign of World War I. It was renowned for inflicting heavy casualties on the opposing forces of the Ottoman Empire , particularly at the Battle of Sarikamish .
The Caucasian War (Russian: Кавказская война, romanized: Kavkazskaya voyna) or the Caucasus War was a 19th-century military conflict between the Russian Empire and various peoples of the North Caucasus who resisted subjugation during the Russian conquest of the Caucasus.
Russian Caucasus Army, a variety of Russian military formations, 18th to 21st century; Caucasus Campaign, the military campaign that took place in the Caucasus during World War I; North Caucasian Front, a Front (military subdivision) of the Soviet Army during the World War II; Transcaucasian Front, another Front of the Soviet Army during the ...
After the Ottoman Empire entered the war in October 1914 on the side of the Central Powers, Russia now feared a Caucasus Campaign aimed at retaking Kars and the port of Batum. From the point of view of the Central Powers, a campaign in the Caucasus would have a distracting effect on Russian forces.
Most of the South Caucasus had been absorbed by the Russian Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century. [8] A Caucasian Viceroyalty had originally been established in 1801 to allow for direct Russian rule, and over the next several decades local autonomy was reduced and Russian control was further consolidated, the Viceroyalty gaining greater power in 1845. [9]
The Ottoman Caucasus offensive in 1918. In 1917, the Russian Caucasus Front collapsed following the abdication of the Tsar.On 9 March 1917, the Special Transcaucasian Committee was established to fill the administrative gap in areas occupied in the course of the war on the Caucasian front by the Russian Provisional Government in the Transcaucasia.