List of wars involving Russia

This article is an incomplete list of wars and conflicts involving Russia, since the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1283).

Contents

Grand Duchy of Moscovy (1283-1547)

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Duchy of Moscow) Outcome
Allies Enemies
8 October 1480 Great stand on the Ugra river The Golden Horde Victory, end of Mongol rule
1492 1494 First Muscovite-Lithuanian War Grand Duchy of Lithuania Victory
1495 1497 Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) Sweden Inconclusive
1500 1503 Second Muscovite-Lithuanian War Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Livonian Order
Victory
1507 1508 Third Muscovite-Lithuanian War Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Crimean Khanate
Inconclusive
1512 1522 Fourth Muscovite-Lithuanian War Livonian Order Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Crimean Khanate
Victory
1534 1537 Fifth Muscovite-Lithuanian War Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Crimean Khanate
Indecisive

Tsardom of Russia (1547-1721)

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Russia) Outcome
Allies Enemies
1558 1583 Livonian War Kingdom of Livonia Livonian Confederation
Denmark–Norway
Swedish Empire
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union)
Defeat
1568 1570 Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570) Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Victory
  • Treaty of Constantinople (1570)
1590 1595 Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595) Swedish Empire Victory
1605 1618 Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618) Kingdom of Sweden (1609-1610) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Defeat but russia independence
1610 1617 Ingrian War Swedish Empire Defeat
1632 1634 Smolensk War Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Indecisive
1652 1689 Russian–Manchu border conflicts Cossacks Qing Empire
Joseon Dynasty
Defeat
1654 1667 Russo-Polish War (1654–67) Ukrainian Cossacks Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crimean Khanate
Victory
July 1656 21 June 1658 Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658) Swedish Empire Inconclusive
1676 1681 Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681) Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Defeat
1686 1700 Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) Habsburg Empire
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Cossack Hetmanate
Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Victory
1700 1721 Great Northern War Denmark–Norway
(1700, 1709–)
 Electorate of Saxony
(1700–6, 1709–)
Poland–Lithuania
(1700–4, 1709–)
Cossack Hetmanate (1700–8)
 Prussia (1715–)
Hanover (1715–)
 Great Britain (1717–19)
Swedish Empire
Holstein-Gottorp
Poland–Lithuania (1704–9)
 Ottoman Empire (1710–4)
Cossack Hetmanate (1708–9)
 Great Britain (1700, 1719–21)
Victory

Russian Empire (1721-1917)

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding the Russian Empire) Outcome
Allies Enemies
1722 1723 Russo-Persian War (1722–1723) Ukrainian Cossacks
Georgia
Armenia
Safavid Persian Empire Victory
1733 1738 War of the Polish Succession Poland under  

  Augustus III of Poland
 Russia
 Habsburg Empire of Austria
 Saxony
 Prussia

Poland under

  Stanisław Leszczyński
 France (Bourbons)
 Spain (Bourbons)
 Kingdom of Sardinia

Indecisive
1735 1739 Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739) Cossack Hetmanate (Protectorate of Russian Empire)

 Habsburg Monarchy

 Ottoman Empire Victory but Habsburg defeat
1741 1743 Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743)

Part of the War of the Austrian Succession

Sweden Victory
16 December 1740 18 October 1748 War of the Austrian Succession  Habsburg Monarchy
 Great Britain
Hanover
 Dutch Republic
 Saxony (1743–45)
 Kingdom of Sardinia
 Kingdom of Prussia
(1740–42) (1744–45)
Kingdom of Spain (1740-1746)
 Kingdom of France
Bavaria (1741–45)
 Saxony (1741–42)
Naples and Sicily
 Republic of Genoa
Sweden (1741–43)
Defeat
1756 1763 Seven Years' War
  • Russian involvement until 1762.
 France
 Habsburg Monarchy
 Spain
 Sweden
 Saxony
 Prussia
 Great Britain
Hanover
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
 Portugal
Hesse-Kassel
Schaumburg-Lippe
Iroquois Confederacy
Truce with Prussia

Defeat of Russia's former allies.

1768 1772 War of the Bar Confederation Kingdom of France
Bar Confederation
Victory
1768 1774 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) Ottoman Empire
Victory
1787 1792 Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) Ottoman Empire Victory
1788 1790 Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) Sweden Inconclusive
1792 Polish–Russian War of 1792 Targowica Confederates Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Victory
1796 Persian Expedition of 1796 Persian Empire Victory
1799 1802 War of the Second Coalition
  • Russia left the coalition in 1799
 Habsburg Monarchy

 Holy Roman Empire
 Great Britain
French Royalists
Portugal
 Two Sicilies
 Ottoman Empire

French Republic

 Spain
Denmark-Norway
Polish Legions
French client states

Coalition defeat
1803 1806 War of the Third Coalition  Austrian Empire

 United Kingdom
Kingdom of Sicily
Kingdom of Naples
Portugal
 Sweden

First French Empire

French client states

Defeat
1804-1813 Russo-Persian War (1804–1813) Persian Empire Victory
1806 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition  Prussia
 United Kingdom
 Saxony[a]
 Sweden
Sicily
French Empire
Confederation of the Rhine

 Polish Legions
French client states  Spain

Defeat
1806 1812 Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) Ottoman Empire Victory
21 February 1808 17 September 1809 Finnish War Sweden Victory
24 June 1812 14 December 1812 French invasion of Russia French Empire

French client states
Austria
Prussia
Spain

Victory
1813 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition  Austrian Empire

 Prussia
 United Kingdom
 Sweden
Spain
Portugal
Sicily
 Sardinia

First French Empire

French client states

Victory
20 March 1815 8 July 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition  Austrian Empire
 Prussia
 United Kingdom
Hanover
Nassau
Brunswick
 Sweden
 United Netherlands
 Spain
Portugal
 Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany
Switzerland
French Royalists
First French Empire
Naples
Victory
1826-1828 Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) Persian Empire Victory
20 October 1827 Battle of Navarino  United Kingdom
France
 Ottoman Empire
Eyalet of Egypt
Vilayet of Tunisia
Victory
1828 1829 Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829) Ottoman Empire Victory
29 November 1830 21 October 1831 November Uprising Congress Poland Victory
1853 1856 Crimean War French Empire
 Ottoman Empire
 British Empire
 Kingdom of Sardinia
Defeat
22 January 1863 11 April 1864 January Uprising Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian insurgents Victory
1877 1878 Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) Bulgarian volunteers
Romania
Serbia
 Montenegro
Ottoman Empire Victory
2 November 1899 7 September 1901 Boxer Rebellion Eight-Nation Alliance:

 Japan
 United Kingdom
France
 United States
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Italy

Righteous Harmony Society

 Qing Empire

Victory
8 February 1904 5 September 1905 Russo-Japanese War  Principality of Montenegro  Empire of Japan Defeat
1914 1918 World War I Allies:

France
 British Empire
 Italy
 United States (1917–18)
and others

Central Powers

 Germany
Austro-Hungarian Empire
 Ottoman Empire
 Bulgaria (1915–18)

Defeat of the Russian Empire in 1917 with the Russian Revolution.

Allied victory

1917 1922 Russian Civil War Pro-communist forces Anti-communist forces

Central Powers (1917–19)
Allied intervention (1918–22)

Communist victory

Soviet Union (1922-1991)

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Soviet Union) Outcome
Allies Enemies
22 July 1929 9 September 1929 Sino–Soviet conflict (1929) Republic of China Victory
1934 Soviet invasion of Xinjiang White Russian forces

Torgut Mongols

Republic of China Inconclusive
1937 Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937) Xinjiang provincial government
White Russian forces
Republic of China

Islamic Rebels

Victory
1938 1939 Soviet–Japanese Border Wars  Empire of Japan Victory
1939 1945 World War II Allies Axis powers Victory
23 October 1956 10 November 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ÁVH (Hungarian State Protection Authority) Hungarian revolutionaries Victory
1967 7 August 1970 War of Attrition  Egypt  Israel Both sides claim victory. Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai
20 August 1968 20 September 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia Warsaw Pact
Bulgaria
 East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia Victory
2 March 1969 11 September 1969 Sino–Soviet border conflict China Inconclusive
27 December 1979 15 February 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Mujahideen
Afghanistan (1979)
Stalemate, fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government

Russian Federation

Start Finish Name of Conflict Belligerents (excluding Russia) Outcome
Allies Enemies
30 october 1992 6 november 1992 East Prigorodny conflict North Ossetian militia
and security forces

North Ossetian Republican Guard
South Ossetian militia
Don Cossacks
Terek Cossacks
Ingush militia
Ingush terrorists
Victory, Russian mediation
1992 1997 Civil war in Tajikistan  Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan
United Tajik Opposition

Islamic State of Afghanistan
Taliban factions

Indecisive
11 December 1994 31 August 1996 First Chechen War Chechen Provisional Council Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Defeat
26 August 1999 May 2000 Second Chechen War Republic of Ichkeria
Caucasian militants
Foreign mujahideen
Victory
7 August 2008 16 August 2008 2008 South Ossetia war South Ossetia

Abkhazia

Georgia Victory

See also