This article lists the formations of the Imperial Russian Army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

in 1914 prior to mobilisation.

The peacetime chain of command was: military district

Military district (Russian Empire)

In the Imperial Russian Army, a military district was a territorial association of military units, formations, military schools, and various local military establishments...

, Corps

Corps

A corps is either a large formation, or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service...

 (or Army Corps), then to Division

Division (military)

A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers. In most armies, a division is composed of several regiments or brigades, and in turn several divisions typically make up a corps...

, Brigade

Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...

, Regiment

Regiment

A regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...

, and then the regiment's battalions.

After mobilisation in the event of war the chain of command ran from Stavka

Stavka

Stavka was the term used to refer to a command element of the armed forces from the time of the Kievan Rus′, more formally during the history of Imperial Russia as administrative staff and General Headquarters during late 19th Century Imperial Russian armed forces and those of the Soviet Union...

, the Russian general headquarters, which was created during mobilization, to Front

Front (Russian Empire)

Front was the term used by the Russian Empire during the First World War for the largest fighting formation. The term was also later used by the Red Army Front was the term used by the Russian Empire during the First World War for the largest fighting formation. The term was also later used by...

-level (Army group) also created during mobilization, to the Army

Army

An army An army An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" (feminine), in the broadest sense, is the land-based military of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps...

 level. Army headquarters were created during mobilization by transformation of the military district headquarters. Below Army level the chain was the same; Corps (or Army Corps, it was used interchangeably), division, brigade, and regiment.

Fronts

• Caucasus Front
• Northern Front
  Northern Front (Russian Empire)
  The Northern Front was a major unit of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War.-Composition:*1st Army *5th Army *6th Army The Northern Front was a major unit of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War.-Composition:*1st Army (April 1916 - July 1917, Sept. 1917 - early...
  
  
• Northwestern Front
  Northwestern Front (Russian Empire)
  The Northwestern Front was a military formation of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War.It was established in August 1914. In August 1915 it was split into Northern Front and Western Front....
  
  
• Romanian Front
  Romanian Front (Russian Empire)
  The Romanian Front was a formation of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War.-Commanders:* 12.12.1916—01.04.1917 — General of Cavalry Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov* 11.04.1917—25.03.1918 — General of Infantry Dmitry Shcherbachev...
  
  
• Southwestern Front
  Southwestern Front (Russian Empire)
  The Southwestern Front was a major unit of the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War. It was established on 19 August 1914.- Commanders of the Southwestern Front :* 19.07.1914-17.03.1916 — General of Infantry Nikolai Ivanov...
  
  

Guard Corps

• 1st Guards Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
  1st Guards Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
  The 1st Guards Infantry Division of the Russian Imperial Guard comprised two brigades: the first with the Preobrazhensky Regiment and the Semenovsky Regiment , and the second, with the Izmaylovsky Regiment and the Guards Jäger Regiment...
  
  
• 2nd Guard infantry division (Russian Empire)
• 3rd Guard infantry division (Russian Empire)
  3rd Guard infantry division (Russian Empire)
  The 3rd Guard Infantry division consisted of four regiments: the Litovsky Guards Regiment , Kexholm Guards Regiment , St. Petersburg Guards Regiment , and the Volinsky Guard Regiment ....
  
  
• 1st Guard Cavalry division (Russian Empire)
  1st Guard Cavalry division (Russian Empire)
  The 1st Guard Cavalry Division had four regiments: His Majesty's Cuirassier Guards Regiment , Her Majesty's Cuirassier Guards Regiment , His Majesty's Cossack Guards Regiment , and the Ataman Cossack Guards Regiment of H. I. H...
  
  
• 2nd Guard Cavalry division (Russian Empire)
  2nd Guard Cavalry division (Russian Empire)
  There were six regiments in the 2nd Guard Cavalry Division: Horse Grenadier Guards Regiment , Her Majesty's Lancer Guards Regiment , Dragoon Guards Regiment , His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment There were six regiments in the 2nd Guard Cavalry Division: Horse Grenadier Guards Regiment...
  
  

Infantry Corps (Russian Empire)

1st Army Corps (Russian Empire)

2nd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

2nd Army (Russian Empire)

The Russian Second Army was commanded by General Alexander Samsonov. It was destroyed at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914....

3rd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

3rd Army (Russian Empire)

The Russian Third Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war.Field management was established in July 1914 at the headquarters of the Kiev Military District. The unit was disbanded in the beginning of 1918...

4th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

4th Army (Russian Empire)

The Russian Fourth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern Front.-Composition:At the beginning of the war, the army consisted of:...

5th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

5th Army (Russian Empire)

The Russian Fifth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war.-Action:The 5th Army saw action at the Battle of Rawa, . Under the command of General Pavel Plehve they advanced into a forty mile gap in the Austrian line between the Austrian First and Fourth...

6th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

6th Army (Russian Empire)

The Russian Sixth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war.- Commanders :* 01.09.1912—26.08.1914 — General of Infantry Благовещенский, Александр Александрович...

7th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

8th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

9th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

10th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

10th Army (Russian Empire)

The 10th Army of the Imperial Russian Army was a military unit engaged in the First World War.- Military Fronts and engagements in which the 10th Army participated :* Northwestern Front...

11th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

12th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

13th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

14th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

15th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

16th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

17th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

18th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

19th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

20th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

20th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

The Twentieth Army Corps of the Imperial Russian Army was a World War I corps that fought on the Eastern theatre of war.Before World War I 20th Corps was stationed in the Vilno Military District, with corps headquarters in Riga.-History:...

21st Army Corps (Russian Empire)

22nd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

23rd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

24th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

25th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

26th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

27th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

28th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

29th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

30th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

31st Army Corps (Russian Empire)

32nd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

33rd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

34th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

35th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

36th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

37th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

38th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

39th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

40th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

41st Army Corps (Russian Empire)

42nd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

43rd Army Corps (Russian Empire)

44th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

45th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

46th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

47th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

48th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

49th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

50th Army Corps (Russian Empire)

Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

1st Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

2nd Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

3rd Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

4th Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

5th Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

6th Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

7th Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

1st Caucasian Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

2nd Caucasian Cavalry Corps (Russian Empire)

Cavalry divisions (Russian Empire)

1st Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

2nd Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

3rd Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

4th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

5th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

6th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

7th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

8th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

9th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

10th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

11th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

12th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

13th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

14th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

15th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

16th Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

Caucasian Cavalry division (Russian Empire)

Cossack divisions (Russian Empire)

1st Caucasian Cossack division (Russian Empire)

2nd Caucasian Cossack division (Russian Empire)

3rd Caucasian Cossack division (Russian Empire)

4th Caucasian Cossack division (Russian Empire)

5th Caucasian Cossack division (Russian Empire)

1st Don Cossack division (Russian Empire)

2nd Combined Cossack division (Russian Empire)

3rd Don Cossack division (Russian Empire)

4th Don Cossack division (Russian Empire)

5th Don Cossack division (Russian Empire)

9th Don Cossack division (Russian Empire)

14th Don Cossack division (Russian Empire)

1st Transbaikal Cossack division (Russian Empire)

1st Turkestan Cossack division (Russian Empire)

Transcaspian Cossack brigade (Russian Empire)

Caucasian native horse division (Russian Empire)

Fortresses

• Brest-Litovsk Fortress
  Brest Fortress
  Brest Fortress , formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress , is a 19th century Russian fortress in Brest, Belarus. It is one of the most important Soviet World War II war monuments commemorating the Soviet resistance against the German invasion on June 22, 1941...
  
  
• Warsaw Fortress
  Warsaw Fortress
  Warsaw Fortress was the 19th century Russian fortress in Warsaw, Poland. Originally it was of the 19th century fortress of Russian Empire, one of the western Russian fortresses - the main and oldest part is known as Warsaw Citadel....
  
  
• Ivangorod Fortress
  Ivangorod fortress
  Ivangorod Fortress is a Russian medieval castle established by Ivan III in 1492 and since then grown into the town of Ivangorod....
  
  
• Zegrzh
• Łomża
• Novogeorgievsk Fortress
  Modlin Fortress
  Modlin Fortress is one of the biggest 19th century fortresses in Poland. It is located the town of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki in district Modlin on the Narew river, some 50 kilometres north of Warsaw...
  
  
• Osowiec Fortress
  Osowiec Fortress
  Osowiec Fortress - a 19th century fortress located in north-eastern Poland, originally built by the Russian Empire. The Russian name is Крепость Осовец i.e. Krepost Osovets. In English sources it is variously given as Osowiec , Osovets, Ossovetz, Osovetz and Ossovets...
  
  
• Ostrolenka
• Pułtusk
• Rozhany
• Grodno
• Dvinsk Fortress
  Daugavpils fortress
  Daugavpils Fortress, also known as Dinaburg Fortress, is a fortress in Daugavpils, Latvia. It is the only early 19th century military fortification of its kind in Northern Europe that has been preserved without significant alterations...
  
  
• Kovno Fortress
  Kaunas Fortress
  Kaunas Fortress is the remains of a fortress complex in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was constructed and renovated between 1882 and 1915 to protect the Russian Empire's western borders, and was designated a "first-class" fortress in 1887...
  
  
• Libava
• Olita
• Ust-Dvinsk
• Alexandropol
• Kars
  Kars
  Kars is a city in northeast Turkey and the capital of Kars Province. The population of the city is 73,826 as of 2010.-Etymology:As Chorzene, the town appears in Roman historiography as part of ancient Armenia...
  
  
• Mikhaylovsk (St. Michael's) fortress (Batumi
  Batumi
  Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. Sometimes considered Georgia's second capital, with a population of 121,806 , Batumi serves as an important port and a commercial center. It is situated in a subtropical zone, rich in...
  
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• Vyborg
  Vyborg
  Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...
  
  
• Kronstadt
  Kronstadt
  Kronstadt , also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt |crown]]" and Stadt for "city"); is a municipal town in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg proper near the head of the Gulf of Finland. Population: It is also...
  
  
• Peter and Paul Fortress
  Peter and Paul Fortress
  The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706-1740.-History:...
  
   (St. Petersburg)

See also

• Military district (Russian Empire)
  Military district (Russian Empire)
  In the Imperial Russian Army, a military district was a territorial association of military units, formations, military schools, and various local military establishments...
  
  - list of military districts.