Imperial Rifles Troops
By the First World War the Imperial Russian Army had a large number of territorially based rifle corps (not to be confused with the corps as a formation), including:
- Leib-Guard Rifles regiments (four)(The Life-Guards Yegersky Regiment although a light infantry unit in name, was numbered among the guard and not the rifles regiments)
- Dismounted rifles regiments of the Guard cavalry divisions (three)
- The Rifles Corps (32 regiments and the Rifles officer school regiment)
- Finnish Rifles Corps (24 regiments)
- Caucasus Rifles Corps (24 regiments)
- Siberian Rifles Corps (88 regiments, and 4 combined rifles regiments)
- Turkestan Rifles Corps (40 regiments)
- Dismounted cavalry rifles (17 regiments)
- Caucasian cavalry rifles regiment
- Trans-Amur mounted rifles regiment (Russian: Заамурский конный стрелковый полк)(This was a Cossack border guard regiment)
- Polish rifles battalions (six)
- Czechoslovak rifles regiments (four)
- Armenian volunteer rifles druzhinas (6 battalions)
- Latvian rifles regiments (eight)
- Georgian volunteer rifles druzhinas (two battalions combined into a regiment)
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