The Year 1917
Kerensky paid a very brief visit to Stavka at Mogilev.
On 3 June, at Petrograd, meeting of the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, which began making plans for demonstrations.
On 4 June, General Brusilov formally succeeded General Alekseev as the Commander in Chief of Russian field armies. General A.E. Gutor replaced Brusilov as Commander of the Southwest Front. Gutor appointed General N.N. Dukhonin as Southwest Front Chief of Staff.
During June, the Russian Army reportedly had 300 armored cars, organized in 13 battalions.
On 4 June, in Paris, the French Government authorized the formation of a Polish army to serve on the Allied Western Front.
On 5 June, resignation of General V.V. Smirnov as Commander of the Western Front. He was replaced on 13 June by General V.I. Gurko.
In Budapest, Hungarian discontent over the course of the war forced Count Istvan Tisza to resign as Prime Minister.
On 7 June, in East Prussia, a hydrogen gas plant explosion in Seddin crippled German airship gas production, seriously impeding airship operations in the Baltic region until the end of August.
On 8 June, at Petrograd, opening of a thirteen day Congress held by Polish members within the Russian Army, which resulted in formation of the 1st Polish Corps, headed by General Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki. Cadres for two further Polish Army Corps were to be formed in the Ukraine. The action caused a political split among Poles in Russia.
At Petrograd, a new draft of the Finnish Constitution was submitted for approval to the Provisional Government.
On 9 June, at Petrograd, the Soviet rejected a German wireless proposal for an unlimited armistice.
On 10 June, on the Southwest Front, arrival of the Royal Flying Corps aviation detachment at Tarnopol. It was composed of three sections and served with the 9th Russian Army during the ill-fated July offensive.
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