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The Russian Fifth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern Front.
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]
Rank | Commander | Period(S) |
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General of Cavalry | Pavel Plehve | 19.07.1914 – 14.01.1915; 8.06.1915 – 6.12.1915; |
General of Infantry | Aleksey Czurin | 14.01.1915 – 8.06.1915 |
General of Infantry | Vladislav Klembovsky | 6.12.1915 – 30.01.1916 |
General of Infantry | Aleksey Kuropatkin | 30.01.1916 – 6.02.1916 |
General of Cavalry | Vasily Gurko | 21.02.1916 – 4.08.1916 |
General of Infantry | Władimir Slusarienko | acting temporarily in August 1916 |
General of Cavalry | Abram Dragomirov | 14.08.1916 – 27.04.1917 |
General of Infantry | Yuri Danilov | 29.04.1917 – 9.09.1917 |
Lieutenant General | Vasily Boldyrev | 09.09.1917 – 13.11.1917 |
Lieutenant General | Panteleimon Sukhanov | 13.11.1917 – 01.01.1918 |
Major General | Arthur Zulf | 01.1918 |
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