Danube Army (Russian Empire, 1916) Explained

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.

See also

• List of Russian armies in World War I

Notes and References

1. Lemke . Martin . The Crossing of the Danube near Roman Novae in 1916 . Novensia 22.
2. Web site: Русская армия в Великой войне: Картотека проекта. Сахаров Владимир Викторович . 2023-09-28 . www.grwar.ru.