The 15th Infantry Division (, 15-ya pekhotnaya diviziya) was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army that existed in various formations from the early 19th century until the end of World War I and the Russian Revolution. The division was based in Odessa in the years leading up to 1914. It fought in World War I and was demobilized in 1918.
Organization The 15th Infantry Division was part of the 8th Army Corps. Its order of battle in 1914 was as follows: 1st Brigade (HQ Mykolaiv) 57th Modlin Infantry Regiment 58th Prague Infantry Regiment 2nd Brigade (HQ Odessa) 59th Lublin Infantry Regiment 60th Zamosc Infantry Regiment 15th Artillery Brigade
Commanders (Division Chiefs) 1840-1851: Peter Andreivich Dannenberg 1854-1856: Nikolai Engelhardt 1896-1900: Vladimir Nikolayevich Filipov 1905: Nikolai Martinovich Ivanov 1909: Dmitry Nikolaevich Bezradetsky15-я пехотная дивизия @ surnameindex.info/mil 1915-1917: Pyotr Lomnovsky
Chiefs of Staff 1860-1863: Johan Ehrnrooth 1885-1889: Dejan Subotić 1903-1905: Maciej Sulkiewicz 1909: Alexander Pavlovich Khanukov January-April 1917: Mikhail Drozdovsky April 1917-March 1918: Evgeny Messner
Commanders of the 1st Brigade 1905: Sergei Petrovich Nekrasov 1909: Stanislav Abakanovich
Commanders of the 2nd Brigade 1905: Mikhail Golembatovsky 1909: Polikarp Kuznetsov
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