Russian_Danube_Army_(World_War_I)

Danube Army (Russian Empire, 1916)

Danube Army (Russian Empire, 1916)

Add article description

The Russian Danube Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Romanian Front.

Field management was established in November 1916, when the Dobruja Army was disbanded after the loss of the Cernavodă-Constanța line (following the Second Battle of Cobadin) to the German-Bulgarian-Ottoman Army under command of August von Mackensen.[1]

The army consisted of:

  • the 47th Army Corps (General Vasiliy Artemiev)
    • 61st Infantry Division (General Panteleimon Simanskiy)
    • 115th Infantry Division (General Aleksandr Freiman)
    • 3rd Caucasian Rifle Division (General Feliks Iozefovich)
    • 3rd Don Cossack Division (General Aleksandr Dolgorukov)
    • 27th Mortar Artillery Battalion
  • the 6th Cavalry Corps (General Aleksandr Pavlov)
    • 12th Cavalry Division (General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim)
    • Trans-Amur Horse Division (General Georgiy Rozalion-Soshalskiy)
    • 4th Armed Vehicle Division (Lieutenant Colonel Orest Zhelyabuzhskiy)
    • 10th Armed Vehicle Detachment
    • 11th Armed Vehicle Detachment
    • 12th Armed Vehicle Detachment

The commander of the Army was General Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov.[2]

In December 1916, the Army was renamed to the 6th Army and became part of the Russian Romanian Front.

References

  1. [1]
    Lemke, Martin. "The Crossing of the Danube near Roman Novae in 1916". Novensia 22.
  2. [2]
    "Русская армия в Великой войне: Картотека проекта. Сахаров Владимир Викторович". www.grwar.ru. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

See also
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Russian_Danube_Army_(World_War_I), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.