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The Western Front (Russian: Западный фронт) was an army group in the armed forces of the Russian Empire during the First World War.It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern Front and Western Front, and was disbanded in 1918.
On the eve of the Great War, [1] Russia was the most populous state in Europe: with 175 million inhabitants, it had almost 3 times the population of Germany, an army of 1.3 million men, and almost 5 million reservists. Its industrial growth, on the order of 5% per year between 1860 and 1913, and the vastness of its territory and natural ...
On July 30, Russia announced a general mobilization in support of Serbia. The following day, on August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia, followed by Austria-Hungary on August 6. Russia and the Entente declared war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, prompted by Ottoman warships bombarding the Black Sea port of Odessa in late October ...
The Caucasus Army had 100 battalions of infantry, 117 sotnis (cavalry squadrons), and 256 guns for a total of 100,000 troops, [2] in other sources it had had 153 battalions of infantry, 175 sotnis, and 350 guns [3] Before the war the army was dispersed into two groups according to the two main operating areas: the Kars group (Kars - Erzurum ...
"World War 1914-1918 was not rich in skillful maneuvers and decisive battles. The huge masses of the armed forces made the armies little mobile and little capable of decisive maneuvers, which distinguished the wars of the past. The East Prussian operation in August 1914 is a rare exception in this respect during the 4-year war.
Nicholas hoped Germany would see this as a regional conflict between Russia and Austria, but because their war plans depended on taking advantage of Russia's slower mobilization speed, and due to the position of both countries, they felt pressure to go to war immediately. Austria-Hungary began full mobilization on 31 July, and Germany declared ...
It took part in fighting against Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1811 shortly after its formation. It was expanded in July 1914 upon the mobilization of the Russian Imperial Army, and took part in fighting on the Eastern Front of World War I. The division was demobilized in 1918 after the Russian Revolution.
The Northern Front (Russian: Северный фронт) was an army group [a] of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War I. It was responsible for carrying out operations against the Central Powers along a front line that stretched 280 kilometers, from Riga in the north down to northern Belarus .