4th Army (Russian Empire)

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

Composition

At the beginning of the war, the army consisted of:

• Field Office (HQ 4th Army) (formed on August 2, 1914 at the headquarters of the Kazan Military District)
• Grenadier Corps
• 14th Army Corps
• 16th Army Corps
• 3rd Caucasian Corps (transferred from Third Army)

At the end of 1917:

• 8th Army Corps

Deployment

• Southwestern Front (August 1914 – June 1915)
• Northwestern Front (June–August 1915)
• Western Front (August 1915 – October 1916)
• Romanian Front (December 1916 – early 1918)

Commanders

• 19.07.1914 – 22.08.1914 - General of Infantry Baron Anton von Saltza
• 22.08.1914 – 20.08.1915 - General of Infantry Alexei Evert
• 30.08.1915 – 21.11.1917 - General of Infantry Alexander Ragoza

See also

• List of Imperial Russian Army formations and units

References