Russian Army
The Russian mobilization of 1914 took place just before the Russia entered World War I. Armenians, who were obligated to serve, became part of the regular Tsarist armed forces. In 1914 the Armenian reservists were about 160,000 in number, which gladly responded to the Russian call, for the simple reason that they were to fight the arch enemy of their historic race. The administration of the Russian Armenia was concerned with the Armenians and before the commencement of the Caucasus Campaign the majority of Armenian conscripts were transferred to the German front. Armenian conscripts that were transferred to other fronts replaced with Russian Caucasus Army. Armenian conscripts during the initial years of the war helped to establish the European theatre of World War I.
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