 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kweHondo Yenyika I, Karbyshev aibatanidzwa mukurwa muCarpathians pasi peGeneral Aleksei Brusilovs 8th Army kuSouthwestern Front. Pakutanga aiva injiniya wemapoka e78th uye 69th Infantry Divisions, gare gare mukuru weinjiniya webasa re22nd Finland Riflemen Corps. Mukutanga kwa1915, akanga ari paKukombwa kwePrzemyśl, apo akakuvadzwa pagumbo. Akashongedzwa neOrder of St. Anne nokuda kwoushingi uye akasimudzirwa kuva lieutenant colonel. Muna 1916, akabatanidzwa muBrusilov Offensive. Nokupanduka kwaFebruary uye kuparara kweHumambo hweRussia, Karbyshev akabatana neRed Guard yemuno muna Zvita 1917 achigara kuMogilev-Podolsky nhasi Ukraine. Kubva muna 1918, akanga ari mukuru mukuru muBolshevik Red Army. 