ПЕРЕБУВАННЯ 8-ї АРМІЇ ПІВДЕННО-ЗАХІДНОГО ФРОНТУ У ВОЛИНСЬКІЙ ГУБЕРНІЇ ПІД ЧАС ПЕРШОЇ СВІТОВОЇ ВІЙНИ

Abstract

The article deals with a number of issues related to the circumstances, conditions and peculiarities of the stay of the 8th Army of the Russian Empire in the South-Western Front in Volyn region (hubernia) during the First World War. The participation of units of the 8th Army in the combat actions that took place on the territory of Volyn region during the military confrontation of the European militant blocs is outlined. The author investigated and analyzed the facts of combat clashes of the army’s units with the units of German and Austro-Hungarian armies which have occurred in the conditions of active fighting (Lutsk (Brusylovskyi) breakthrough, Kovel offensive operations) and permanent war. Non-combat peculiarities of life of the personnel of the army’s units (loss of discipline, decrease of fighting capacity, desertion, etc.) in the investigated period are shown fragmentary. The author found that the presence of the 8th Army of the Southwestern Front had a certain impact on the socio-economic and, in the spring of 1917, on the socio-political development of Volyn region.After working on research materials, the author established that there has been no comprehensive study of the selected problem by scholars. When describing a general picture of the combat actions during the First World War at the theater of the South-Western Front, domestic scientists studied some aspects of the course of hostilities, military-political events and the situation in the front-line districts (povity). These and other factors determine the expediency of scientific discourse about the location of units of the 8th Army on the territory of Volyn.The reviewed sources prove that the 8th Army was on the territory of Volyn from July 1915 to August 1917. During this period, army personnel participated in military operations carried out within the South-Western Front.