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Title: Tsarist Chemical Corp
Post by: drownte on 14 January 2015, 10:42:28 AM

Good evening everyone. I have a question that I feel only this knowledgeable community can help me with, namely information on the Imperial Russian officers and soldiers that deployed the Tsar's chemical weapons in the Great War. I don't even have a Branch of Service name, much less uniforms, tactics, or equipment. Please any information would greatly help as I have found a trove of photos of a tsarist chemical weapons test but no other information.

Title: Re: Tsarist Chemical Corp
Post by: cuprum on 14 January 2015, 11:21:24 AM

Here's an article on Russia's participation in the "gas" war. Naturally - in Russian language.
To translate recommend using Google translator.

http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat76.htm

Title: Re: Tsarist Chemical Corp
Post by: drownte on 14 January 2015, 11:53:32 AM

This is awesome thank you!!! I just wish there were someone who would write on it in English, as I believe the Imperial and early soviet use of chemical weapons is a much neglected subject.

Title: Re: Tsarist Chemical Corp
Post by: cuprum on 14 January 2015, 12:30:40 PM

Then check out the entire series of articles by this author on chemical weapons in World War I (described therein, including, and part of Russia). A link to the main article dedicated to the Imperial Army I have already given above.

http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat72.htm
http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat73.htm
http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat74.htm
http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat76.htm
http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat77.htm
http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat78.htm
http://www.supotnitskiy.ru/stat/stat80.htm
Also on these links information about Russian flamethrower in the Russian Imperial Army and a bit of chemical weapons in the USSR in the period between the world wars.

And it links the use of chemical weapons in the civil war in Russia:

http://scepsis.net/library/id_3450.html
http://scepsis.net/library/id_3235.html
http://scepsis.net/library/id_3051.html
http://scepsis.net/library/id_2974.html
http://dvinovaje.ru/load/stati_ob_intervencii/zapakh_gnilykh_jablok_i_svezhego_sena/7-1-0-43
http://domovoi-vchd.livejournal.com/30944.html

Section of the forum about the Civil War in Siberia, where the information is collected to study the issue use of chemical weapons in this theater of operations:

http://siberia.forum24.ru/?1-7-0-00000017-000-0-0-1411925715

To translate articles I recommend to address to Mark Conrad. He translated many articles from the Russian military history magazines. Perhaps this information will seem too interesting to him.

http://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/

Title: Re: Tsarist Chemical Corp
Post by: drownte on 23 January 2015, 01:00:41 PM

Hey just got back from some work stuff and saw your reply! Thank you! I was wondering if you new of any unit organizations or insignia to give me a sort of technical and visual flavor for these units, or were they just regular engineer units dragooned into chemical work?

Title: Re: Tsarist Chemical Corp
Post by: cuprum on 23 January 2015, 03:26:15 PM

I do not have information about the insignia chemical commands the Imperial army. I just know that these units were referred to artillery department. So they are likely wore uniforms of the Russian artillery.