List of wars involving Russia

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

Grand Duchy of Moscow (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 Kingdom of Poland Crimean Khanate	Victory
1534	1537	Fifth Muscovite-Lithuanian War		Grand Duchy of Lithuania Kingdom of Poland Crimean Khanate	Indecisive

Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Tsardom of 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 Truce of Jam Zapolski Treaty of Plussa
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 Treaty of Teusina
1605	1618	Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)	Kingdom of Sweden (1609–1610)	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat but Russia independence Truce of Deulino
1610	1617	Ingrian War		Swedish Empire	Defeat Treaty of Stolbovo
1632	1634	Smolensk War		Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat Treaty of Polyanovka
1652	1689	Russian–Manchu border conflicts	Cossacks	Qing Empire Joseon Dynasty	Defeat Treaty of Nerchinsk
1654	1667	Russo-Polish War (1654–67)	Ukrainian Cossacks	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Khanate	Victory Truce of Andrusovo
July 1656	21 June 1658	Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)		Swedish Empire	Inconclusive Treaty of Valiesar Treaty of Cardis
1676	1681	Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)		Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Treaty of Bakhchisarai
1686	1700	Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) Part of the Great Turkish War	Habsburg Empire Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack Hetmanate	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Victory Treaty of Constantinople (1700)
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 against Sweden Treaty of Nystad Defeat against Ottoman Empire Treaty of the Pruth

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Russian Empire)		Outcome
			Allies	Enemies
1722	1723	Russo-Persian War	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 Treaty of Vienna (1738)
1735	1739	Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739)	Cossack Hetmanate (Protectorate of Russian Empire) Habsburg Monarchy	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate (Ottoman protectorate)	Victory but Habsburg defeat Treaty of Niš (1739)
1735	1740	Bashkir Rebellion		Bashkirs	Victory
1741	1743	Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) Part of the War of the Austrian Succession		Sweden	Victory Treaty of Åbo
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 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
1744	1747	Chukchi War (1744-1747)		Chukchis	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 Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) Defeat of Russia's former allies
1768	1772	War of the Bar Confederation		Kingdom of France Bar Confederation	Victory Treaty of Kuçuk Kainarji
1768	1774	Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)		Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate (Ottoman protectorate)	Victory Treaty of Kuçuk Kainarji
1787	1792	Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)		Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Jassy
1788	1790	Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)		Sweden	Inconclusive
1792		Polish–Russian War of 1792	Targowica Confederates	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Victory Second Partition of Poland
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 Peace of Pressburg
1804	1813	Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)		Persian Empire	Victory
1806	1807	War of the Fourth Coalition	Prussia United Kingdom Saxony Sweden Sicily	French Empire Confederation of the Rhine Bavaria Württemberg Polish Legions French client states Spain	Defeat Treaties of Tilsit
1806	1812	Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)		Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Bucharest
21 February 1808	17 September 1809	Finnish War		Sweden	Victory Treaty of Fredrikshamn
3 June 1809	15 July 1809	War of the Fifth Coalition Galician campaign: minimal Russian involvement	French Empire Duchy of Warsaw	Austria	* Treaty of Schönbrunn
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 Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)
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 Treaty of Paris (1815)
1826	1828	Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)		Persian Empire	Victory Treaty of Turkmenchay
20 October 1827		Battle of Navarino Part of the Greek War of Independence	United Kingdom France	Ottoman Empire Eyalet of Egypt Vilayet of Tunisia	Victory
1828	1829	Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)		Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi
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 Treaty of Paris (1856)
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 Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin (1878)
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 Treaty of Portsmouth
1914	1918	World War I	Allies: France United Kingdom Russia United States China Italy Japan Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil	Central Powers: Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria	Allied Victory

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917–1922)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	Head of Government
Russian Civil War (1917–1922)	Russian SFSR Far Eastern Republic Mongolian Communists Makhnovshchina Left SR Green armies	White Movement Mountain Republic Black Army Left SR Green armies Britain Empire of Japan Czechoslovakia Greece United States France Serbia Romania Italy China Mongolia	Victory Victory for the Red Army in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Tuva, and Mongolia. Victory for pro-independence movements in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.	Vladimir Lenin
Ukrainian War of Independence (1917–1921)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Makhnovshchina	UNR ZUNR Ukrainian State	Victory Most of Ukraine forms the Ukrainian SSR.
Finnish Civil War (1918)	Russian SFSR Red Guard	White Guard Germany	Defeat German hegemony until 11 November 1918.
Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)	Russian SFSR Latvian SSR	Latvia Lithuania	Defeat Independence of Latvia.
Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)	Russian SFSR Commune of Estonia	Estonia Baltische Landeswehr	Defeat Independence of Estonia.
Lithuanian–Soviet War (1918–1919)	Russian SFSR LBSSR	Republic of Lithuania Saxon Volunteers	Defeat Bolshevik forces driven out.
Georgian-Ossetian Conflict (1918–1920)	Russian SFSR Ossetian rebels	Transcaucasian Federation Georgia	Defeat Ossetian rebellion crushed.
Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Poland Ukraine	Defeat Peace of Riga
Invasion of Azerbaijan (1920)	Russian SFSR Azerbaijan SSR	Azerbaijan	Victory Overthrow of the ADR government.
Invasion of Georgia (1921)	Russian SFSR Turkey	Georgia	Victory Establishment of the Georgian SSR.
February Uprising (1921)	Russian SFSR	ARF	Victory Bolshevik forces recapture Yerevan.
East Karelian Uprising (1921–1922)	Russian SFSR	Forest Guerrillas Finnish volunteers	Victory Uprising put down.

Soviet Union (1922–1991)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	General Secretary of the Communist Party
August Uprising (1924)	Soviet Union	Damkom	Victory Consolidation of Soviet rule in Georgia.	Joseph Stalin
Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)	Soviet Union	China	Victory Provisions of 1924 agreement were upheld.
Islamic Rebellion in Xinjiang (1937)	Xinjiang Soviet Union White Movement	China	Victory Sheng Shica's regime established its rule over the whole territory of Xinjiang province.
Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1932–1941)	Soviet Union Mongolia	Empire of Japan Manchukuo	Victory Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
Invasion of Poland (1939)	Germany Slovakia Soviet Union	Poland	Victory Polish territory divided between Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Slovakia.
Winter War (1939–1940)	Soviet Union	Finland	Victory Moscow Peace Treaty
Occupation of the Baltic states (1940)	Soviet Union	Estonia Latvia Lithuania	Victory Baltic states occupied by the Red Army.
World War II (1941–1945)	Soviet Union United States United Kingdom China France Poland Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Yugoslavia Greece Denmark Norway Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Czechoslovakia Brazil Mexico Ethiopia	Germany Japan Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria Finland Thailand Manchukuo Croatia Slovakia	Victory Collapse of the Third Reich Fall of Japanese and Italian Empires Creation of the United Nations Emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers Beginning of the Cold War
Guerilla war in the Baltic states (1944–1956)	Soviet Union	Estonia Latvia Lithuania	Victory Defeat of national partisans.
Korean War (1950–1953)	North Korea China Soviet Union	United Nations South Korea United States United Kingdom	Ceasefire Korean Demilitarized Zone established, minor territorial changes.
Hungarian Revolution (1956)	Soviet Union ÁVH	Revolutionaries	Victory Revolution crushed.	Nikita Khrushchev
Invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968)	Soviet Union Bulgaria East Germany Hungary Poland	Czechoslovakia	Victory Moscow Protocol, Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991.	Leonid Brezhnev
War of Attrition (1969–1970)	Egypt Soviet Union	Israel	Both sides claim victory Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai
Eritrean War of Independence (1974–1990)	Ethiopia Cuba Soviet Union South Yemen	ELF EPLF	Defeat Eritrea gains independence after communist withdrawal.
Ethio-Somali War (1977–1978)	Ethiopia Cuba South Yemen Soviet Union	Somalia WSLF	Victory Somali withdrawal Somalia breaks all ties with the Second World except for China.
Soviet War in Afghanistan (1979–1989)	Soviet Union Afghanistan	Peshawar Seven Tehran Eight	Withdrawal Geneva Accords, Soviet withdrawal.

Russian Federation (1991–present)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results	President
War of Transnistria (1992)	Transnistria Russia	Moldova	Victory Transnistria gains de facto independence.	Boris Yeltsin
East Prigorodny Conflict (1992)	North Ossetia South Ossetia Russia	Ingush militia	Victory Ethnic cleansing of ethnic Ingush from the Prigorodny district by Ossetian militia.
Civil War in Tajikistan (1992–1997)	Tajikistan Russia Uzbekistan	UTO Afghanistan Taliban	UN armistice The UTO is promised 30% of the ministerial positions in Tajik government.
Georgian Civil War (1993)	Georgia Russia	Zviadists	Victory Zviadist revolt crushed.
First Chechen War (1994–1996)	Russia	Ichkeria Mujahideen	Defeat Chechnya's de facto independence.
War of Dagestan (1999)	Russia	IIPB	Victory Second Chechen War
Second Chechen War (1999–2009)	Russia	Ichkeria Caucasian Front Mujahideen	Victory Debellation of Ichkeria. Nine year insurgency.
Russo-Georgian War (2008)	Russia South Ossetia Abkhazia	Georgia	Victory Expansion of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.	Dmitry Medvedev
North Caucasus Insurgency (2009–)	Russia	Caucasus Emirate Mujahideen	Ongoing Ongoing insurgency.
Intervention in Ukraine (2014–)	Russia Novorossiya	Ukraine	Ongoing Annexation of Crimea. Minsk Protocol.	Vladimir Putin

See also

• History of Russia
• Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
• Military history of Russia