Amur Military District

After the Japanese-Chinese War of 1894–1895, and the emergence of Japan as a new military power into the Far Eastern arena, the position of the district changed dramatically.

A gradual strengthening of the troops in the sparsely populated Amur Military District began.

By 1898, the Primorsky Dragoon Regiment was created and construction of the Vladivostok Fortress was started.

With the outbreak of the First World War, most of the district's field troops, namely the 1st, 4th and 5th Siberian Army Corps, were sent to the Western Front.

The former military district would become the theater of the Russian Civil War and the Siberian Intervention.