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 Moscovy (1283–1547)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Duchy of Moscow)		Outcome
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
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
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
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 File:Military flag of the Crimean Tatars.PNG 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	Polish victory 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	Defeat 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 Treaty of Nystad

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Russian Empire)		Outcome
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
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 Treaty of Vienna (1738)
1735	1739	Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739)	Cossack Hetmanate (Protectorate of Russian Empire) Habsburg Monarchy	Ottoman Empire File:Flag of Krim Khanat.svg Crimean Khanate (Ottoman protectorate)	Victory but Habsburg defeat Treaty of Niš (1739)
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)
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 File:Flag of Krim Khanat.svg 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
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 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

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917-1922)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Russian SFSR)		Outcome
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
February 1919	March 1921	Polish-Soviet War	Ukrainian SSR	Republic of Poland Ukrainian Peoples Republic	Defeat

Soviet Union (1922–1991)

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Soviet Union)		Outcome
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
22 July 1929	9 September 1929	Sino–Soviet conflict (1929)	White Russian forces Torgut Mongols	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	Republic of China Islamic Rebels	Victory
1938	1938	Battle of Lake Khasan		Empire of Japan	Victory
1932	1939	Soviet–Japanese Border Wars	Mongolia (Outer Mongolia)	Empire of Japan	Victory Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
1939	1945	World War II includes the Winter War	Allies	Axis powers	Victory German Instrument of Surrender Potsdam Agreement
August 1945	September 1945	Soviet–Japanese War (1945)	Mongolia (Outer Mongolia)	Japan Manchukuo Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia)	Victory Contributed to Japanese surrender
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 Moscow Protocol
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	Stalemate, eventual fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government

Russian Federation

Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Belligerents (excluding Russian Federation)		Outcome
Start	Finish	Name of Conflict	Allies	Enemies	Outcome
1992	1997	Civil war in Tajikistan	Tajikistan	UTO	Stalemate United Nations-sponsored armistice.
1994	1996	First Chechen War		Ichkeria	Defeat Chechnya's de-facto independence.
1999	2000	Second Chechen War		Ichkeria	Victory Restoration of Russian federal control.
2008	2008	Russo-Georgian War	South Ossetia Abkhazia	Georgia	Victory Expansion of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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Grand Duchy of Moscovy (1283–1547)

Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917-1922)

Soviet Union (1922–1991)

Russian Federation

See also