Did russia fight in the trenches during World War 1?

Answer 1

Generally when speaking of "the trenches" during WWI its understood that this means "the western front", which was in France and Belgium. There the British, French, Belgians and Americans fought the Germans. Both world wars were, for Germany, "two front wars", because, in the west, they had the British, French and Americans, and, in the east, on the other front, the Russians. There were no Russians on the western front. I am sure there were times and places during WWI where the Russians did dig in, and perhaps even create trench systems, though nothing as elaborate as what the trench systems grew into on the western front. There were also "trenches" on what amounts to the southern extension of the western front, to the southeast of Switzerland, where the Allied Italians faced the Austro-Hungarian armies of the Central Powers.