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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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