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

Field management was established in August 1916.
The Army was named Special because it was thought that the name 13th Army would bring bad luck.

Composition

At the end of 1917 the army consisted of:

XXXI Corps
XXXIX Army Corps
XLIV Corps
XLVI Corps
I Turkestan Army Corps
IV Cavalry Corps
VII Cavalry Corps

Deployment

Western Front (August 1916 - September 1916)
Southwestern Front (September 1916 - November 1916)
Western Front (November 1916 - July 1917)
Southwestern Front (July 1917 - early 1918)

Commanders

The commanders of the Army were :

14.08.1916-10.11.1916 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko
10.11.1916-17.02.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev
17.02.1917-31.03.1917 - General of Cavalry Vasily Gurko
02.04.1917-09.07.1917 - General of Infantry Pyotr Baluyev
12.07.1917-29.08.1917 - General of Cavalry Ivan Erdélyi
29.08.1917-14.09.1917 - Acting Major General Vasily Sarychev
14.09.1917-20.11.1917 - General of Infantry Stepan Stelnitsky
11.1917 - Acting Colonel Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
20.11.1917-13.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Theodore Rerberg
13.12.1917-19.12.1917 - Lieutenant General Alex Kushakevich
12.19.1917-03.1918 - Colonel Vladimir Yegoryev

See also

List of Russian armies in World War I

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