The Russian Fifth Army was a World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war

Eastern Front (World War I)

The Eastern Front was a theatre of war during World War I in Central and, primarily, Eastern Europe. The term is in contrast to the Western Front. Despite the geographical separation, the events in the two theatres strongly influenced each other...

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Action

The 5th Army saw action at the Battle of Rawa

Battle of Rawa

Battle of Rawa was an early stage World War I battle between Austria-Hungary and Russia, between September 3-11, 1914. The Russian armies had defeated their opponents and threw them back to the Carpathian mountains...

, (3–11 September 1914). Under the command of General Pavel Plehve

Pavel Plehve

Pavel von Plehve , a German officer, served exclusively in the Russian Army during World War I.- Military career :After graduation from officers cavalry school Plehve served in uhlan regiment. In 1877 he graduated from the General Staff Academy...

 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, the Austrian chief of staff, 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.

Rank	Commander	Period(S)
General of Cavalry	Pavel Plehve Pavel Plehve Pavel von Plehve , a German officer, served exclusively in the Russian Army during World War I.- Military career :After graduation from officers cavalry school Plehve served in uhlan regiment. In 1877 he graduated from the General Staff Academy...	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 Aleksey Kuropatkin Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin was the Russian Imperial Minister of War who is often held responsible for major Russian drawbacks in the Russian-Japanese War, notably the Battle of Mukden and the Battle of Liaoyang.-Early years:Kuropatkin was born in 1848 in what is now Pskov, in the Russian...	30.01.1916 - 6.02.1916
General of Infantry	Vasily Gurko Vasily Gurko Vasily Iosifovich Gurko served for a brief period as a Chief-of-Staff of the Imperial Russian Army before being forced out of the country in exile following the October Revolution of 1917.- Biography :Son of the Iosif Gurko...	21.02.1916 - 4.08.1916
General of Infantry	Władimir Slusarienko	czasowo pełniący obowiązki w sierpniu 1916
General of Cavalry	Abram Dragomirov Abram Dragomirov Abram Mikhailovich Dragomirov was a General in the Imperial Russian Army. Following the Russian Revolution he joined Anton Denikin in the Volunteer Army....	14.08.1916 - 27.04.1917
General of Infantry	Yuri Danilov Yuri Danilov Yuri Danilov served as a general in the Russian army during World War I.From 1907 to 1914 Danilov was in charge of the Intelligence Section of Russian Main Staff of the Imperial Russian Army...	29.04.1917 - 9.09.1917
Lieutenant General	Vasily Boldyriev	09.09.1917 - 13.11.1917