 In every other respect, however, Russia was unprepared for war.Germany had ten times as much railway track per square kilometre, and whereas Russian soldiers travelled an average of to reach the front, German soldiers travelled less than a quarter of that distance.Russian heavy industry was still too small to equip the massive armies the Tsar could raise, and her reserves of munitions were pitifully small; while the German army in 1914 was better equipped than any other, man-for-man, the Russians were severely short on artillery pieces, shells, motorised transports, and even boots.