3rd Army Corps (Russian Empire)
3rd Army Corps | |
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Active | 1877-1918 |
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Size | ~20,000 |
HQ | Vilnius |
Engagements |
The 3rd Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army formed on 19 February 1877.
Its headquarters were in Vilnius.
Composition[]
The Army Corps composition as of 18 July 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, was:
- 25th Infantry Division headquartered at Dvinsk
- 1st Brigade
- (headquarters Dvinsk)
- (headquarters Dvinsk)
- 2nd Brigade (headquarters Dvinsk)
- (headquarters Dvinsk)
- (headquarters Dvinsk)
- 25th Artillery Brigade
- 1st Brigade
- 27th Infantry Division (headquarters Vilnius)
- 1st Brigade
- 2nd Brigade
- 27th Artillery Brigade
- 1st Brigade
- 5th Rifle Brigade
- 17th Rifle Regiment
- 18th Rifle Regiment
- 19th Rifle Regiment
- 20th Rifle Regiment
- 5th Rifle Artillery Division
- 3rd Cavalry Division (headquarters Kaunas)
- 1st Cavalry Brigade
- 2nd Cavalry Brigade
- 3rd Horse Artillery Battalion
- 5th Horse Artillery Battery
- 6th Horse Artillery Battery
- 1st Cavalry Brigade
- 3rd Mortar-Artillery Division
- 3rd Engineer Battalion
- 4th Pontoon Battalion
- 2nd Communications Company
Personnel[]
Commanders[]
No. | Portrait | Commander | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | 19 February 1877 | 23 April 1878 | 1 year, 63 days | ||
2 | 4 May 1878 | 5 August 1878 | 93 days | ||
3 | Eduard Karlovich Dellingshausen | Lieutenant-General15 August 1878 | 1885 | 6 years, 139 days | |
4 | 6 July 1885 | 19 October 1894 | 9 years, 105 days | ||
5 | 28 October 1894 | 1 January 1898 | 3 years, 65 days | ||
6 | General of the Infantry after 6 December 1898 | Lieutenant-General1 January 1898 | 29 May 1899 | 1 year, 148 days | |
7 | General of the Infantry after 1 January 1901 Mitrofan Tchaikovsky | Lieutenant-General6 November 1899 | 25 March 1903 | 3 years, 139 days | |
8 | Konstantin Iosifovich Razgonov | Lieutenant-General16 April 1903 | 22 June 1904 | 1 year, 67 days | |
9 | 22 June 1904 | 16 December 1904 | 177 days | ||
10 | Ivan Vasilievich Volkenau | Lieutenant-General12 January 1905 | 5 December 1906 | 1 year, 327 days | |
11 | General of the Infantry after 6 December 1910 Paul von Rennenkampf | Lieutenant-General27 December 1906 | 20 January 1913 | 6 years, 24 days | |
12 | General of the Infantry after 4 April 1913 Nikolai Epanchin | Lieutenant-General29 January 1913 | 6 February 1915 | 2 years, 8 days | |
13 | General of the Infantry after 22 March 1915 | Lieutenant-General14 February 1915 | 22 August 1915 | 189 days | |
14 | Vladimir Alekseyevich Alftan | Lieutenant-General22 August 1915 | 16 April 1916 | 238 days | |
15 | General of the Infantry Pyotr Oganovsky | 16 April 1916 | 11 September 1916 | 148 days | |
16 | 11 September 1916 | 3 April 1917 | 204 days | ||
17 | Lieutenant-General after 29 April 1917 Dmitry Nadyozhny | Major-General7 April 1917 | 12 October 1917 | 188 days | |
18 | 22 October 1917 |
Chiefs of Staff[]
- 24 February 1877 — 15 May 1885 — Colonel (Major-General after 1 January 1878)
- 15 May 1885 — 9 December 1892 — Major-General Ivan Ivanovich Tyvalovich
- 11 January 1893 — 5 January 1898 — Major-General Stanislav Stanislavovich Novogrebelsky
- 5 January 1898 — 20 October 1899 — Major-General Nikolai Nilovich Lavrov
- 2 November 1899 — 17 February 1904 — Major-General Aleksandr Konstantinovich Petrov
- 24 March 1904 — 12 October 1904 — Major-General Nikolai Sergeyevich Berdyaev
- 22 October 1904 — 16 June 1906 — Major-General Alexander Frantsevich Ragoza
- 23 July 1906 — July 1908 — Major-General Baron Aleksandr Georgyevich Ikskul-von-Gildebant
- 9 July 1908 — 19 October 1914 — Major-General Vladimir Aleksandrovich Chagin
- 14 December 1914 — 17 July 1915 — Major-General Viktor Viktorovich Eggert
- 18 July 1915 — 7 February 1917 — Major-General Nikolai Dimitryevich Chausov
- 8 February 1917 — 4 May 1917 — Major-General Vladimir Nikolayevich Yegoryev
- 12 May 1917 — 7 August 1917 — Major-General Mikhail Vasilyevich Lebedev
- 12 August 1917 — 1918 — Major-General Andrey Nikolayevich Suvorov
Chiefs of Artillery[]
- 19 March 1877 - 5 December 1889 - Major-General (Lieutenant-General from 30 August 1881) Yakov Mikhailovich Kostogorov
- 9 January 1890 - 4 February 1893 - Major-General (Lieutenant-General from 30 August 1892) Aleksandr Nikitich Fedortsov-Malysh
- 4 February 1893 - 19 January 1898 - Lieutenant-General
- 19 January 1898 - 10 April 1901 - Major-General (Lieutenant-General from 5 April 1898)
- 30 May 1901 - 9 July 1906 - Major-General (Lieutenant-General from 12 June 1903) Aleksey Stepanovich Shepilov
- 25 July 1906 - 26 October 1913 - Major-General (Lieutenant-General from 22 April 1907) Dmitry Ivanovich Nevadovsky
- 18 December 1913 - 16 April 1916 - Major-General (Lieutenant-General from 12 June 1914) Count
- 13 May 1916 - 18 February 1917 - Major-General Konstantin Konstantinovich Pilkin
- From 18 February 1917 - Major-General
Corps quartermasters[]
- 17 February 1898 - 19 July 1900 - Colonel Viktor Ivanovich Lang,
- 23 July 1900 - 1905 - state councilor Mikhail Ivanovich Levandovsky
- 13 November 1905 - 8 August 1910 - Lieutenant-Colonel (Colonel from 12 June 1906) Zenon Avgustinovich Vorotnitsky
- 16 August 1910 - after 1 March 1914 - Lieutenant-Colonel (Colonel from 14 April 1913) Aleksandr Mikhailovich Vishnyakov
See also[]
- List of Imperial Russian Army formations and units
References[]
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- Corps of the Russian Empire
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- 1877 establishments in the Russian Empire
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