The article is devoted to a rare topic – economic crimes on the Russian front during the First World War. In the center of the study are single and mass violations in property relations in the provision of the army. The author comes to the conclusion about the constant growth of economic crimes, the tendency to increase the amount of losses, the growth of group frauds. The article emphasizes such factors of economic crimes as lack of proper control, lack of reliable legal basis, clash of interests of military, civil administration and free market agents, impossibility to refuse to involve ethnic groups hostile to the army in the supply business. It is concluded that there are serious contradictions between the requirements of a new type of war and the reality of everyday warfare.

The article, based on archival materials, is devoted to the role of military crimes in the criminalization of Russia during the First World War. The paper describes the main types of military crimes during the war, their scale and dynamics, the relationship with civil offenses and the revolutionary actions, analyzes the change of the composition of the Russian army, constantly expanding the former criminals, their role in the progressive criminalization of the army and the society until the October Revolution.