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| Allegiance | Imperial Russian Army (pre-1917) Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (since 2017) |
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The 14th Army Corps was an Army corps in the Imperial Russian Army. Under the Russian Federation, the corps has been reformed as the ground formation of the Northern Fleet.
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