Sventiany Offensive

Part of the Eastern Front during World War I

Eastern Front in the second half of 1915.

Date	August 26 (N.S. September 8) to September 19 (N.S. October 2), 1915
Location	Sventiany, Russian Empire (Now Švenčionys, Lithuania) 55°09′N 26°10′E / 55.150°N 26.167°E / 55.150; 26.167Coordinates: 55°09′N 26°10′E / 55.150°N 26.167°E / 55.150; 26.167
Result	Russian victory

Belligerents

German Empire

Russian Empire

Commanders and leaders

Yevgeniy Radkevich

Units involved

Russian 10th Army
Russian 5th Army

Strength

Unknown

Casualties and losses

Unknown

Eastern Front

1914 East Prussia Galicia Przemyśl Vistula River Łódź Limanowa 1915 Bolimów 2nd Masurian Lakes Gorlice-Tarnów Great Retreat Novogeorgievsk Sventiany 1916 Lake Naroch Lutsk Baranovichi Christmas 1917 July Zborov Riga Albion 1918 Faustschlag Bakhmach Naval warfare Baltic Sea Black Sea

The Sventiany Offensive was a military operation mostly undertaken by the 10th German Army against the Russian 10th Army as part of the Eastern Front during World War I. On September 9, 1915, four German cavalry divisions, enforced from September 13 by two others, filled the gap in the Russian front and deployed an attack to gain the rear of 10th Russian army.

On September 9 the Germans broke the Russian defence and six cavalry divisions were thrown into breach. Later the German onslaught, devoid of infantry and artillery support, weakened and on September 15–16 was finally stopped by the newly formed 2nd Russian army. On October 2 the Sventiany breach was eliminated.

Sources

Yevseyev, I. Sventyanski proryv, Moscow, 1936.

Sventiany Offensive

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