The Russian troops entered Austrian Lviv in August, 1914, less than in a month after the beginning of Great war. Unbelievable success of the Russian weapon became possible due to a number of factors that allowed to win a victory in one of the greatest battles First world.A галицийская battle today is practically forgotten, what clear reasons of political character are. During this battle Russia first plugged in composition countries territory of East Галиции that we know today as Western Ukraine. Meticulous research of Alexander White literally on a clock reconstructs the details of this operation.Alexander Sergeevich Белой (1882 - 1938) is the Russian and soviet military leader, military historian, brigade commander. He accepted the direct participating in fights under Lviv and became the author of a number of the works sanctified to the actions of the Russian army in the First to world war. А. became Белой by the victim of the Stalin repressions, and his labours appeared under prohibition. This first reediting of book from 1929.