Russian Caucasus Army (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Russian Caucasus Army (Russian: a ) of World War I was the Russian field army that fought at the Caucasus Front. The Army was engaged at Caucasus Campaign and Persian Campaign. It was under the nominal command of the Governor General of the Caucasus Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov at the start of hostilities. His chief of command was Aleksandr Zakharevich Myshlayevsky. Russian Caucasus Army had 100 battalions of infantry, 117 sotnis (cavalry squadrons), and 256 guns for a total of 100,000 troops. Before the war army was dispersed into two groups according to the two main operating areas: Kars direction (Kars - Erzurum) with 6 divisions in the region of Otu - Sarikamish and Erivan direction (Erivan - Alashkert) with 2 divisions, reinforced by a large number of cavalry, in the vicinity of Igdir. The flanks were covered by small units formed from the Border Guard, the Cossacks and the militia.