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

Field management was established in November 1916, when the Dobruja Army was disbanded after the loss of the Cernavodă-Constanța line (following the Second Battle of Cobadin) to the German-Bulgarian-Ottoman Army under command of August von Mackensen.

The army consisted of:

• the 47th Army Corps (General Vasiliy Artemiev)
  • 61st Infantry Division (General Panteleimon Simanskiy)
  • 115th Infantry Division (General Aleksandr Freiman)
  • 3rd Caucasian Rifle Division (General Feliks Iozefovich)
  • 3rd Don Cossack Division (General Aleksandr Dolgorukov)
  • 27th Mortar Artillery Battalion
• the 6th Cavalry Corps (General Aleksandr Pavlov)
  • 12th Cavalry Division (General Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim)
  • Trans-Amur Horse Division (General Georgiy Rozalion-Soshalskiy)
  • 4th Armed Vehicle Division (Lieutenant Colonel Orest Zhelyabuzhskiy)
  • 10th Armed Vehicle Detachment
  • 11th Armed Vehicle Detachment
  • 12th Armed Vehicle Detachment

The commander of the Army was General Vladimir Viktorovich Sakharov.

In December 1916, the Army was renamed to the 6th Army and became part of the Russian Romanian Front.

References

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1. Lemke, Martin. "The Crossing of the Danube near Roman Novae in 1916". Novensia 22.
2. "Русская армия в Великой войне: Картотека проекта. Сахаров Владимир Викторович". www.grwar.ru. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

See also

• List of Russian armies in World War I

v t e Ground forces of the Russian Empire during World War I
Senior administration	Imperial Main Headquarters Stavka of the Supreme Commander Ministry of War
Fronts	Northwestern (to 1915, then: Northern and Western) Southwestern Romanian Caucasus
Field armies	Numbered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Dobruja Danube Caucasus Special
Army corps	Guards 1 2 Grenadier Army 1st – 9th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10th – 19th 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20th – 29th 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30th – 39th 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40th – 50th 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Caucasus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Terek-Kuban Siberian 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Turkestan 1 2 Polish I II III Ukrainian 1 2 Volunteer Czechoslovak Romanian Armenian Georgian Serbian Cavalry Numbered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Caucasus Native 1 2 Guards Combined Miscellaneous Gendarmes Feldjäger Expeditionary

• Field armies of Russia in World War I
• Military units and formations established in 1916
• 1916 establishments in the Russian Empire