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3rd Caucasus Army Corps

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2023
Entity authorityQ4030661 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 3rd Caucasus Army Corps (Russian, 3-й Ка́вказский арме́йский ко́рпус) was a military formation of the Russian Empire which existed from 1912 to 1918.

Composition

21st Infantry Division

52nd Infantry Division

3rd Caucasus Cossack Division

Part of

3rd Army: 1914

12th Army: 1915

3rd Army: 1915–1916

3rd Army: 1917

Commanders

gen. of artillery Vladimir A. Irmanov: 1912–1917

lieutenant gen. M. N. Ivanov: 1917

lieutenant gen. książę A. N. Eristov: 1917

References

A. K. Zalesskij I mirowaja wojna. Prawitieli i wojennaczalniki. wyd. WECZE Moskwa 2000.

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“3rd Caucasus Army Corps” enters the record as military unit. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Caucasus, Army and Corps can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1918, 1914, 1915—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Caucasus, Army and Corps.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4030661. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1918, 1914 and 1915.

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This entry incorporates text from “3rd Caucasus Army Corps” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.