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(Redirected from Special Army (Russian Empire)) World War I Russian field army

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

Field management was established in August 1916. The Army was named Special because it was thought that the name 13th Army would bring bad luck.

Composition

At the end of 1917 the army consisted of:

31st Army Corps
39th Army Corps
44th Army Corps
XLVI Corps
I Turkestan Army Corps
IV Cavalry Corps
VII Cavalry Corps

Deployment

Western Front (August–September 1916)
Southwestern Front (September–November 1916)
Western Front (November 1916 – July 1917)
Southwestern Front (July 1917 – early 1918)

Commanders

The commanders of the Army were:

14.08.1916 – 10.11.1916 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko
10.11.1916 – 17.02.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev
17.02.1917 – 31.03.1917 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko
02.04.1917 – 09.07.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev
12.07.1917 – 29.08.1917 - General of Cavalry Ivan Erdélyi
29.08.1917 – 14.09.1917 - Acting Major General Vasily Sarychev
14.09.1917 – 20.11.1917 - General of Infantry Stepan Stelnitsky
11.1917 - Acting Colonel Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
20.11.1917 – 13.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Theodore Rerberg
13.12.1917 – 19.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Alex Kushakevich
12.19.1917 – 03.1918 - Colonel Vladimir Yegoryev

See also

List of Russian armies in World War I

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Ground forces of the Russian Empire during World War I

Senior administration

Northwestern (to 1915, then: Northern and Western)
Southwestern
Romanian
Caucasus

Numbered	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Guards

Army

1st – 9th	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10th – 19th	10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20th – 29th	20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30th – 39th	30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
40th – 50th	40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

Caucasus

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Terek-Kuban

Siberian

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Turkestan

1
2

Polish

I
II
III

Ukrainian

1
2

Volunteer

Cavalry

Numbered	1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Caucasus	Native 1 2

Miscellaneous