List of wars involving Russia
The following is an incomplete list of armed conflicts and wars fought by Russia, by Russian people, from antiquity to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside of Russia by Russian military.
Kievan Rus'
This section contains list of wars involving Kievan Rus' and its principalities located on the territory of modern Russia and Ukraine (Principality of Kiev, Principality of Chernigov, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Principality of Volhynia, Principality of Terebovlia, Principality of Halych, Principality of Turov and Pinsk).
Grand Principality of Moscow (1480–1547)
Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)
Conflict | Russia (and its allies) | Opponent(s) | Result |
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Siege of Kazan (1552) Location: Tatarstan |
Russia | Khanate of Kazan | Victory |
Tatar Rebellion (1552–1556) Location: Tatarstan |
Russia | Tatar rebels | Victory
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Ivan the Terrible's Swedish War (1554–1557) Location: Karelia |
Russia | Sweden | Inconclusive |
Russian conquest of Astrakhan (1556) Location: Astrakhan |
Russia | Astrakhan Khanate | Victory
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Livonian War (1558–1583) Location: Northern Europe |
RussiaLivonia | Livonian Confederation
(before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union) |
Defeat |
Astrakhan Expedition (1568–1570) Location: Astrakhan and Azov |
Russia | Turkey | Victory
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Ivan the Terrible's Crimean War (1570–1572) Location: European Russia |
Russia | Crimean Khanate Turkey |
Victory
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Russian conquest of Siberia (1580–1762) Location: Siberia |
Russia
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Khanate of Sibir (until 1598) Native Siberians |
Victory
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Boris Godunov's Swedish War (1590–1595) Location: Northern Europe |
Russia | Sweden | Inconclusive |
Polish invasions of Russia (1605–1618) Location: Russia |
Russia Sweden (1609–1610) |
Poland–Lithuania | Inconclusive
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Bolotnikov Rebellion (1606–1607) Location: Russia |
Russia | Rebels under Ivan Bolotnikov | Victory
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Ingrian War (1610–1617) Location: Russia |
Russia | Sweden | Defeat |
Smolensk War (1632–1634) Location: Smolensk |
Russia | Poland–Lithuania | Defeat |
Alexis I's Persian War (1651–1653) Location: North Caucasus |
Russia | Persia | Inconclusive |
Sino–Russian border conflicts (1652–1689) Location: Heilongjiang and Amur |
Russia Cossacks |
China Korea |
Defeat |
First Northern War (1654–1667) Location: Eastern Europe |
Russia Cossack Hetmanate |
Poland–Lithuania |
Victory |
Second Northern War (1656–1658) Location: Northern Europe |
Russia | Sweden | Inconclusive |
Moscow Uprising (1662) Location: Moscow |
Russia | Muscovite insurgents | Victory
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First Bashkir Rebellion (1662–1664) Location: Bashkortostan |
Russia | Bashkir rebels | Inconclusive Political defeat
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Solovetsky Monastery Uprising (1668–1676) Location: Solovetsky Islands |
Russia | Raskol rebels | Victory
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Razin's Rebellion (1670–1671) Location: Russia |
Russia | Cossacks under Stepan Razin | Victory
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Feodor III's Turkish War (1676–1681) Location: Ukraine |
Russia | Turkey |
Indecisive[1] |
First Streltsy Rebellion (1682) Location: Moscow |
Russia | Streltsy regiments | Defeat
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Great Turkish War (1683–1700) Location: Eastern Europe |
Russia (from 1686) Austria | Turkey | Victory |
Second Streltsy Rebellion (1698) Location: Russia |
Russia | Streltsy regiments | Victory
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Great Northern War (1700–1721) Location: Europe |
Russia
(1700, 1709–) (1700–6, 1709–) (1700–4, 1709–) Cossack Hetmanate (1700–8) Prussia (1715–) Hanover (1715–) Great Britain (1717–19) |
Sweden
Poland–Lithuania (1704–9) Turkey (1710–4) Cossack Hetmanate (1708–9) Great Britain (1700, 1719–21) |
Victory Victory against Sweden Defeat against Turkey |
Third Bashkir Rebellion (1704–1711) Location: Bashkortostan and Tatarstan |
Russia | Bashkir rebels | Military victory Political defeat
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Bulavin Rebellion (1707–1708) Location: Southern Russia |
Russia | Don Cossack rebels | Victory
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Peter the Great's Khivan War (1717) Location: Khanate of Khiva |
Russia | Khanate of Khiva | Defeat
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Kazakh-Russian conflicts (1717–1847) Location: Kazakhstan |
Russia
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Kazakhstan Kyrgyz tribes Khanate of Khiva |
Victory
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Russian Empire (1721–1917)
Russian SFSR (1917–1922)
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Conflict | Soviet Union (and its allies) | Opponent(s) | Results |
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August Uprising (1924) Location: Georgia |
Soviet Union | Committee for Independence of Georgia | Victory
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Sino-Soviet conflict (1929) Location: Manchuria |
Soviet Union | China | Victory
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Kumul Rebellion (1931–1934) Location: Xinjiang |
Xinjiang Soviet Union (from 1934) White Movement |
China Kumul Khanate loyalists |
Ceasefire
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Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1932–1941) Location: Primorsky, Mongolia and Manchuria |
Soviet Union Mongolia |
Japan Manchukuo |
Victory |
Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang (1937) Location: Xinjiang |
Xinjiang Soviet Union White Movement |
China | Victory
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World War II – Invasion of Poland (1939) Location: Poland |
Nazi Germany Slovak Republic Soviet Union |
Poland | Victory
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World War II – Winter War (1939–1940) Location: Eastern Finland |
Soviet Union | Finland | Victory
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World War II – First Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940) Location: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia |
Soviet Union | Estonia Latvia Lithuania |
Victory
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World War II – Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) Location: Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina |
Soviet Union | Romania | Victory
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World War II – Eastern Front (1941–1945) Location: Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, in later stages Southeast Europe, Germany, and Austria |
Allies Soviet Union Poland Czechoslovakia (from 1943) Yugoslavia (from 1944) Tuva (until 1944)[5] Former Axis powers or co-belligerents Aerial role and material support only |
Axis powers Nazi Germany[6] Romania (until 1944) Hungary Italy (until 1943) Bulgaria (until 1944) Axis puppet states Co-belligerents Supported by Francoist Spain (until 1943) Vichy France (until 1944) White Movement (pro-German faction only) |
Victory
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World War II – Continuation War (1941–1944) Location: Finland, Karelia, and Murmansk |
Soviet Union | Finland Nazi Germany | Victory
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World War II – Soviet-Japanese War (1945) Location: Manchuria/Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia/Mengjiang, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Korea |
Soviet Union Mongolian People's Republic | Empire of Japan Manchukuo Mengjiang | Victory
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Ukrainian Insurgent Army Insurgency (1942–1949) Location: Ukraine |
Soviet Union Poland Czechoslovakia Nazi Germany (1943–1944) |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army | Victory
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Ili Rebellion (1944–1949) Location: Xinjiang |
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Republic of China | Ceasefire
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Insurgency in the Baltic states (1944–1956) Location: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia |
Soviet Union | Estonia Latvia Lithuania |
Victory
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Guerilla war in Poland (1944–1963) Location: Poland |
Soviet Union Polish People's Republic |
Polish Underground State
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Victory
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Korean War (1950–1953) Location: North Korea and South Korea |
North Korea China Soviet Union |
United Nations South Korea United States United Kingdom |
Stalemate
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East German Uprising (1953) Location: East Germany |
Soviet Union East Germany |
East German Demonstrators | Victory
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Hungarian Revolution (1956) Location: Hungary |
Soviet Union ÁVH |
Revolutionaries | Victory
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Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) Location: Czechoslovakia |
Soviet Union Bulgaria East Germany Hungary Poland |
Czechoslovakia | Victory
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Sino-Soviet border conflict (1969) Location: Sino-Soviet border |
Soviet Union | China | Inconclusive[7] Tactical victory[8]
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War of Attrition (1967–1970) Location: Egypt |
Egypt Soviet Union (from 1969) |
Israel | Inconclusive
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Eritrean War of Independence (1974–1991) Location: Eritrea |
Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union South Yemen |
ELF EPLF |
Withdrawal (in 1990) Political defeat |
Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) Location: Angola |
MPLA Cuba Soviet Union SWAPO MK |
South Africa UNITA FNLA FLEC |
Withdrawal (in 1991)
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Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978) Location: Ogaden |
Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union |
Somalia WSLF |
Victory
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Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan (1979–1989) Location: Afghanistan |
Soviet Union Afghanistan |
Afghan Mujahideen | Stalemate[9] Political defeat
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Russian Federation (1991–present)
Conflict | Russia (and its allies) | Opponent(s) | Result |
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Georgian Civil War (1991–1993) Location: Georgia |
Georgia Russia |
Zviadists | Victory
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War in Abkhazia (1991–1993) Location: Abkhazia |
Russia Abkhazia |
Georgia | Victory
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Transnistria War (1992) Location: Transnistria |
Transnistria Russia |
Moldova | Victory
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East Prigorodny Conflict (1992)
Location: North Ossetia-Alania |
Russia North Ossetia-Alania[10] |
Ingush militia | Victory
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Tajikistani Civil War (1992–1997)
Location: Tajikistan |
Tajikistan Russia Uzbekistan |
United Tajik Opposition Taliban factions |
Stalemate
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Russian Constitutional Crisis (1993)
Location: Russia |
Russia | Supreme Soviet of Russia Congress of People's Deputies of Russia Vice President of Russia [note 1] Supporters of the Supreme Soviet and Alexander Rutskoy |
Victory
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First Chechen War (1994–1996)
Location: Chechnya |
Russia | Ichkeria Mujahideen |
Defeat[11]
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War of Dagestan (1999)
Location: Dagestan |
Russia | IIPB | Victory
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Second Chechen War (1999–2009)
Location: Chechnya |
Russia | Ichkeria Caucasian Front Mujahideen |
Victory
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Russo-Georgian War (2008)
Location: Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia |
Russia South Ossetia Abkhazia |
Georgia | Victory
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Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–present)
Location: North Caucasus |
Russia | Caucasus Emirate ISIL (from 2015) |
Ongoing
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Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)
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Russia Crimea Donetsk Luhansk |
Ukraine | Ongoing |
Russian military intervention in Syria (2015–present)
Location: Syria |
Russia Syria Iran Iraq Hezbollah |
ISIL Tahrir al-Sham Syrian Opposition United States Jordan Qatar Saudi Arabia Turkey |
Ongoing
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See also
Notes
- ↑ Supporters of Alexander Rutskoy, the Supreme Soviet and the Congress of People's Deputies frequently used those flags. The Russian tricolor itself only remained hoisted at the White House building (see video documentary).
References
- ↑ David R. Stone, A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya, (Greenwood Publishing, 2006), 41.
- 1 2 "Russian Civil War Polities" worldstatesmen.org
- ↑ worldstatesmen.org
- 1 2 "Russian Civil War Polities" www.worldstatesmen.org/Russia_war.html
- ↑ Toomas Alatalu. Tuva: A State Reawakens. Soviet Studies, Vol. 44, No. 5 (1992), pp. 881–895.
- ↑ Germany's allies, in total, provided a significant number of troops and material to the front. There were also numerous foreign units recruited by Germany, notably the Spanish Blue Division and the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism.
- ↑ "Exploring Chinese History :: Politics :: Conflict and War :: Soviet Aggression". Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ↑ Kuisong p.29
- ↑ "Soviet Defeat in Afghanistan". GlobalSecurity.org.
- ↑ "9. Вооруженные формирования в зоне конфликта". Retrieved 26 December 2016.
- ↑ "Why the Russian Military Failed in Chechnya". Foreign Military Studies Office.