3rd Army (Russian Empire)

The Russian Third Army was a World War I Russian field army that fought on the Eastern theatre of war.

Field management was established in July 1914 at the headquarters of the Kiev Military District. The unit was disbanded in the beginning of 1918. At the beginning of the war the 3rd Army was composed of the IX, X, XI, XXI Army Corps.

A detachment of two aircraft "Ilya Muromets" was based at the Bereza airfield, from the 4th aviation company based at the airfield Lida.^[1] The detachment operated jointly with the 3rd Army from February 1915 and, in addition to Bereza, was also based at airfields in Brest-Litovsk and Slutsk.^[2]

^ Vitaly Lebedev (2013-04-01). "Lida airfield in the formative years of Russian military aviation". New defense order. Defense Media LLC. Archived from the original on 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
^ Zharkov, A.; Orlov, V. (2017-09-28). "History of Aeronautics of the Brest-Litovsk Fortress". Database Heritage of the Brest Fortress. Brest Fortress Development Fund fortresses. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-07.

[NOZ-1] Vitaly Lebedev (2013-04-01). "Lida airfield in the formative years of Russian military aviation". New defense order. Defense Media LLC. Archived from the original on 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-03-14.

[2] Zharkov, A.; Orlov, V. (2017-09-28). "History of Aeronautics of the Brest-Litovsk Fortress". Database Heritage of the Brest Fortress. Brest Fortress Development Fund fortresses. Archived from the original on 2019-04-07. Retrieved 2019-04-07.

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