If 66th Div 1st Bde under Gen Nazarbekov had its two Regts (263rd Regt at Kars) and 264th Infantry Regt (at Batumi)
Did the 66th Div have only the 2nd Bde under Gen Amasiyskiy, what were its Regts?
What Artillery Bde was with the 66th Infantry Div?
The rule is very simple: the Russian infantry division had four consecutively numbered infantry regiment in two brigades and an artillery brigade of the same number as division.
So 66 Infantry Division consisted of 261, 262, 263 and 264 Infantry Regiments and 66 Artillery Brigade (two battalions recte, divizions, each of three batteries).
P.S. 261 Akhulginskiy (Akhulgo) IR (commabder - colonel Potto in October 1914) + 262 Groznenskiy (Groznaia) IR = 1st brigade (Erevan detachment); 263 Gunibskiy (Gunib) IR (colonel Chernogorov), in Kars, + 264 Georgievskiy (Georgievsk) IR, in Batum, = 2nd bde.
2nd Caucasian Cossack Div what units made up this Cossack Div?
1st (Kuban) bde, m.-g. Pevnev: 1 Labinskiy (Laba) rgt, 1 Chernomorskiy (Black Sea) rgt; during summer-autumn 1915 - 1 Labinsliy rgt and 3 Chernomorskiy rgt.
2nd (Terek) bde, m.-g. Potto: 3 Volgskiy (or Volzhskiy; Volga) rgt (Terek cossack host), 3 Chernomorskiy rgt (Kuban host); in February 1915 - 3 Volgskiy rgt and 3 Zaporozhskiy rgt (Kuban host); in August 1915 - 3 Volgskiy rgt and 3 Kizliaro-Grebenskoy rgt (Terek host); Summer 1916 - only 3 Volgskiy rgt.
2nd Caucasian cossack horse artillery divizion: 1 and 5 Kuban cossack batteries
Late 1916: added 3 Sunzhensko-Vladikavkazskiy rgt - Terek host (separately from brigades).
Since 26.XII.1916: Rifle Divizion of 2nd Caucasian cossack division
What were its (4th Caucasus Corps) support units?
Corps Artillery and Engineers?
According Maslovskiy:
IV Caucasian AC, in early December 1914: 2 Cauc. rifle bde, 66 Inf. Div., 2 Caucasian coss. div., Transcaspian cossack bde, 2nd separate Caucasian Sapper Company, 26 and 27 Frontier Guard bdes, 2 and 3 Armenian druzhinas.
IV Caucasian AC, 1.IX.1915: 2 Cauc. rifle bde (5-8 Cauc. rifle rgts), 2 Cauc. rifle artillery divizion (12 guns), 66 Inf. Div. (261, 262, 263 rgts), 66 Art. bde, 26 and 27 Frontier Guard bdes, Caucasian cavalry division (16, 17, 18 dragoon rgts, 1 Khoperskiy Cossack rgt), Caucasian horse mountain artillery divizion (1 and 2 horse mountain batteries, field horse battery), Summary Division (ex-Transcaspian cossack bde), 4 Kuban cossack battery, 11, 13 and 25 Special Kuban sotnias, two companies of 2 Turkestan Sapper Btn, 33, 42 and 44 Militia (Opolchenie) Sapper half-companies, 1st Caucasian Militia Bde (586, 587, 590, 593, 594, 595 druzhinas), 9 and 10 Turkestan landmark (etapnie) companies.
IV Caucasian AC, 20.XII.1915: 2 Cauc. rifle Div. (5-8 Cauc. rifle rgts), 2 Cauc. rifle artillery divizion (24 guns), 1 Cauc. Militia Bde, 66 Artillery Bde, 2 Caucasian Cossack Div., two companies of 2 Turkestan Sapper Btn, 42 and 44 Militia Sapper half-companies, 9 and 10 Turkestan landmark companies, 11, 13 and 25 Special Kuban sotnias, 2 Caucasian Frontier Cavalry Rgt.
IV Caucasian AC, 01.VI.1916: 2 Cauc. rifle Div. (5-8 Cauc. rifle rgts), 2 Cauc. rifle artillery bde [really formed by order of 16.IX.1916 from 2nd Caucasian Rifle artillery divizion] (24 guns), 66 Inf. Div. (261, 262, 264 rgts), 66 Artill. Bde, 1 Cauc. Militia Bde, 1, 2, 3 Armenian druzhinas, 2nd Separate Caucasian Howitzer battery, 2 Caucasian cossack Div., 2 Caucasian Frontier Cavalry Rgt, 11, 13 and 25 Special Kuban sotnias, two companies of 2 Turkestan Sapper Btn, 42 and 44 Militia Sapper half-companies, 2nd separate Caucasian Sapper Company, 2 Kars Fortress Sapper Company.
IV Caucasian AC, 1.I.1917: 66 Inf. Div. (all four rgts), 66 Art. Bde, 2 Cauc. Rifle Div., 2 Cauc. rifle artillery bde, 2nd Armenian Btn, 3 Caucasian separate Artillery Divizion, 2nd Separate Caucasian Howitzer battery, 9 Mortar Divizion, 2 Caucasian cossack Div., 2 Caucasian Frontier Cavalry Rgt, 13 Special Kuban sotnia, 4 Caucasian Sapper Btn (six companies).
2nd Caucasian Rifle Artillery Bde (was this with the 4th Cauc Corps?
Yes, see above.
Like wise the Artillery with the;
1st Caucasus Corps (can you confirm?)
64th Artillery Bde
1st Caucasus Mortar Bn
64th Artillery Brigade: as a part of 64th Infantry Division, 7th Army, later North-Western Front
1st Caucasian Mortar Artillery Divizion: as a part of I Caucasian Army Corps; the second half of 1915: in Army Artillery Reserve; by 1.VI.1916: in I Caucasian AC; late 1916: in VI Caicasian Army Corps.
Other Special units of
I Caucasian AC in early December 1914: 1st Caucasian Separate Artillery Divizion, 1st Caucasian Sapper btn.
2nd Turkistan Corps
What Artillery units in Corps?
Artillery battalions ("divizions") as a part of each Rifle Brigage:
4th Turkestan Rifle Artillery Divizion (colonel Avtonomov, 24 guns)
5th Turkestan Rifle Artillery Divizion (col. Dmitriev, 16 guns)
2nd Turkestan Sapper Btn (col. Ter-Akopov; five companies)
NB: Transcaspian Cossack Bde (1 Kavkazskiy (Caucasus) coss. rgt, 1 Tamanskiy (Taman') coss. rgt - Kuban host) included 4th Kuban cossack battery.
Sorry my mistake but the above question should have been
reports place four Bdes in the 2nd Turkistan Corps but so far only three are found?
4th Turkestan Rifle Bde
5th Turkestan Rifle Bde
Transcaspian Cossack Bde
can we find the forth Bde of this Corps?
No, we can't.
I am thinking it could be 2nd Kuban Cossack Infantry (Plastun) Bde can you confirm?
In Erevan detachment, later I Causasian AC.
NB: Kuban foot cossack bdes were called only "(
number)
Kuban Plastun bde".