Romanian Front (Russian Empire)

The Romanian Front (Russian: Румынский фронт) was an army group level command[lower-alpha 1] of the Imperial Russian Army and the Romanian Army during the First World War.

See also: Romania during World War I
The Romanian Front's theatre of operations

Overview

The Front was created in mid-December 1916 out of the headquarters of the former Russian Danubian Army, following the defeat of the Romanian forces at the Battle of Turtucaia (Southern Dobrudja). Nominally the commanding officer of the front was King Ferdinand I of Romania; however the de facto power lay in his "deputies": Russian generals delegated by the Stavka.

Initially the front consisted of three armies: the 4th Army, 6th Army and 9th Army. Soon it was joined by the forces of 1st Romanian Army (under General Constantin Cristescu) and Second Romanian Army (under Alexandru Averescu), and in September 1917 by the Russian 8th Army.

Following the Bolshevik coup-d'état of 7 November 1917, the front was merged with the Southwestern Front as the Ukrainian Front under administration of the Central Rada of Ukraine.

Composition

Command
Commander in Chief
Deputies of the Commander in Chief
Chief of Staff
  • 12.12.1916 – 08.04.1917 – General Mikhail Shishkevich
  • 17.04.1917 – 15.10.1917 – General Nikolai Golovin
  • 23.10.1917 – ? – General Georgiy Viranovskiy

Componenets
Original composition (December 1916)
Later added (Summer 1917)
Other formations (uncertain status)

See also

Notes
  1. A "front" is the Russian equivalent of an army group, not to be confused with a geographic theater of operations.
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