5th Army (Russian Empire)
The Russian Fifth Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern Front.
Action
The 5th Army saw action at the Battle of Rawa,. Under the command of General Pavel Plehve, 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, 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.Deployment
| Rank | Commander | Period |
| General of Cavalry | Pavel Plehve | 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 | 30.01.1916 – 6.02.1916 |
| General of Cavalry | Vasily Gurko | 21.02.1916 – 4.08.1916 |
| General of Infantry | Władimir Slusarienko | acting temporarily in August 1916 |
| General of Cavalry | Abram Dragomirov | 14.08.1916 – 27.04.1917 |
| General of Infantry | Yuri Danilov | 29.04.1917 – 9.09.1917 |
| Lieutenant General | Vasily Boldyrev | 09.09.1917 – 13.11.1917 |
| Lieutenant General | Panteleimon Sukhanov | 13.11.1917 – 01.01.1918 |
| Major General | Arthur Zulf | 01.1918 |