Danube Army (Russian Empire, 1916)
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
[edit] | This article needs additional citations for verification. (October 2023) |
- ^ Lemke, Martin. "The Crossing of the Danube near Roman Novae in 1916". Novensia 22.
- ^ "Русская армия в Великой войне: Картотека проекта. Сахаров Владимир Викторович". www.grwar.ru. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
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