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, (3–11 September 1914). Under the command of General Pavel Plehve, they advanced into a forty-mile gap in the Austrian line between the Austrian First and Fourth armies. The Austrian chief of staff, General Franz Conrad, ordered a general retreat: the Austrians fell back over one hundred miles and lost 350,000 men. The Germans then moved troops from the Prussian front to stop a potential Austrian collapse.[1]

Deployment

RankCommanderPeriod(S)
General of CavalryPavel Plehve19.07.1914 – 14.01.1915; 8.06.1915 – 6.12.1915;
General of InfantryAleksey Czurin14.01.1915 – 8.06.1915
General of InfantryVladislav Klembovsky6.12.1915 – 30.01.1916
General of InfantryAleksey Kuropatkin30.01.1916 – 6.02.1916
General of CavalryVasily Gurko21.02.1916 – 4.08.1916
General of InfantryWładimir Slusarienkoacting temporarily in August 1916
General of CavalryAbram Dragomirov14.08.1916 – 27.04.1917
General of InfantryYuri Danilov29.04.1917 – 9.09.1917
Lieutenant GeneralVasily Boldyrev09.09.1917 – 13.11.1917
Lieutenant GeneralPanteleimon Sukhanov13.11.1917 – 01.01.1918
Major GeneralArthur Zulf01.1918

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