List of wars involving Russia
Appearance
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 | |
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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 | ![]() |
Victory | |
1495 | 1497 | Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) | Sweden | Inconclusive | |
1500 | 1503 | Second Muscovite-Lithuanian War | ![]() |
Victory | |
1507 | 1508 | Third Muscovite-Lithuanian War | ![]() |
Inconclusive | |
1512 | 1522 | Fourth Muscovite-Lithuanian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1534 | 1537 | Fifth Muscovite-Lithuanian War | ![]() |
Indecisive |
Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)
Russian Empire (1721–1917)
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1917-1922)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Russian SFSR) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
February 1919 | March 1921 | Polish-Soviet War | Ukrainian SSR | ![]() |
Defeat |
Soviet Union (1922–1991)
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Soviet Union) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
22 July 1929 | 9 September 1929 | Sino–Soviet conflict (1929) | ![]() Torgut Mongols |
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Victory |
1934 | Soviet invasion of Xinjiang | ![]() Torgut Mongols |
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Inconclusive | |
1937 | Islamic rebellion in Xinjiang (1937) | ![]() |
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Victory | |
1938 | 1938 | Battle of Lake Khasan | ![]() |
Victory | |
1932 | 1939 | Soviet–Japanese Border Wars | ![]() |
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Victory |
1939 | 1945 | World War II
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Allies | Axis powers | Victory |
August 1945 | September 1945 | Soviet–Japanese War (1945) | ![]() |
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Victory
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23 October 1956 | 10 November 1956 | Hungarian Revolution of 1956 | ![]() |
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Victory |
1967 | 7 August 1970 | War of Attrition | ![]() |
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Both sides claim victory. Continued Israeli occupation of Sinai |
20 August 1968 | 20 September 1968 | Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia | Warsaw Pact
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Victory |
2 March 1969 | 11 September 1969 | Sino–Soviet border conflict | ![]() |
Inconclusive | |
27 December 1979 | 15 February 1989 | Soviet war in Afghanistan | ![]() |
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Stalemate, eventual fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government |
Russian Federation
Start | Finish | Name of Conflict | Belligerents (excluding Russian Federation) | Outcome | |
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Allies | Enemies | ||||
1992 | 1997 | Civil war in Tajikistan | ![]() |
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Stalemate
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1994 | 1996 | First Chechen War | ![]() |
Defeat
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1999 | 2000 | Second Chechen War | ![]() |
Victory
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2008 | 2008 | Russo-Georgian War | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory
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