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  2. Great Retreat (Russia) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and the Polish Congress Kingdom .

  3. Gorlice–Tarnów offensive - Wikipedia

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    The Gorlice–Tarnów offensive during World War I was initially conceived as a minor German offensive to relieve Russian pressure on the Austro-Hungarians to their south on the Eastern Front, but resulted in the Central Powers' chief offensive effort of 1915, causing the total collapse of the Russian lines and their retreat far into Russia.

  4. 2nd Army (Russian Empire) - Wikipedia

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    The Russian 2nd Army (2-я армия, 2А) was an army-level command of the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. It was formed just prior to the outbreak of hostilities from the units of Warsaw Military District and was mobilized in August 1914. The army was effectively destroyed at Battle of Tannenberg in August 1914. However, it was rebuilt ...

  5. Yuri Danilov - Wikipedia

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    Yuri Nikiforovich Danilov Russian: Ю́рий Ники́форович Дани́лов; 13 August [O.S. 1 August] 1866 – 3 February 1937) was a Russian military officer. In the years leading up to World War I , he served as the Quartermaster-General on the Russian General Staff and had a major role in developing Russia's war plan that was ...

  6. Imperial Russian Army - Wikipedia

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    Defence of Przasnysz by the Imperial Russian Army on the Eastern Front, 1915 At the outbreak of the war, Emperor Nicholas II appointed his cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas as Commander-in-Chief. On mobilization, the Russian Army totalled 115 infantry and 38 cavalry divisions with nearly 7,900 guns (7,100 field guns, 540 field howitzers and 257 heavy ...

  7. Constitutional Democratic Party - Wikipedia

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    Once the initial outburst of national unity feelings died down in mid-1915 as Russian retreat from Galicia showed the government's incompetence, the Kadets, together with the Progressive faction, the Octobrist faction and a part of the Nationalist faction in the Duma, formed the Progressive Bloc in August 1915 which was critical of the ...

  8. Aleksei Brusilov - Wikipedia

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    Aleksei [a] Alekseyevich Brusilov (/ ˈ b r uː s ɪ l ɒ v /, US also / ˈ b r uː s ɪ l ɔː v /; Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Брусилов, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ brʊˈsʲiɫəf]; 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1853 – 17 March 1926) was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 ...

  9. Nikolai Yanushkevich - Wikipedia

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    Nikolai Nikolayevich Yanushkevich (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Янушке́вич; 13 May [O.S. 1 May] 1868 – February 1918) was a Russian general who served as the chief of staff of the general headquarters of the Imperial Russian Army from August 1914 to September 1915.