5th Army (Russian Empire)

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

Action

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.

Deployment

• Southwestern Front (July – September 1914)
• Northwestern Front (September 1914 – August 1915)
• Northern Front (August 1915 – early 1918)

Rank	Commander	Period(S)
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

See also

• List of Russian armies in World War I
• List of Imperial Russian Army formations and units