List of wars involving Russia

The following is an incomplete list of major wars fought by Russia, by Russian people, from antiquity to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside of Russia by Russian military.

Grand Duchy of Moscow (1480–1547)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1368–72)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Principality of Tver	Inconclusive Treaty of Lyubutsk
Battle of Shelon (July 14, 1471)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Novgorod Republic	Victory Novgorod was absorbed by Muscovy in 1478.
Great stand on the Ugra river (8 October 1480)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Golden Horde	Victory End of Mongol rule
Capture of Tver (1485)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Principality of Tver	Victory End of Principality of Tver
First Muscovite-Lithuanian War (1492-1494)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Victory
Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Sweden	Inconclusive
Second Muscovite-Lithuanian War (1500-1503)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Livonian Order	Victory
Russo-Kazan War (1505-07)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Khanate of Kazan	Inconclusive
Third Muscovite-Lithuanian War (1507-1508)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Crimean Khanate	Inconclusive
Fourth Muscovite-Lithuanian War (1512-1522)	Grand Duchy of Moscow Livonian Order	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Kingdom of Poland Crimean Khanate	Victory
Fifth Muscovite-Lithuanian War (1534-1537)	Grand Duchy of Moscow	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Kingdom of Poland Crimean Khanate	Indecisive

Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Russo-Swedish War (1554–57)	Tsardom of Russia	Kingdom of Sweden	Inconclusive Treaty of Novgorod (1557)
Livonian War (1558-1583)	Tsardom of Russia Kingdom of Livonia	Livonian Confederation Denmark–Norway Kingdom of Sweden Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union)	Defeat Truce of Jam Zapolski Treaty of Plussa
Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)	Tsardom of Russia	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Victory Treaty of Constantinople (1570)
Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595)	Tsardom of Russia	Swedish Empire	Defeat Treaty of Teusina
Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)	Tsardom of Russia Kingdom of Sweden (1609–1610)	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Inconclusive; Russian independence secured Truce of Deulino
Ingrian War (1610-1617)	Tsardom of Russia	Swedish Empire	Defeat Treaty of Stolbovo
Smolensk War (1632-1634)	Tsardom of Russia	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat Treaty of Polyanovka
Russo-Persian War (1651-1653)	Tsardom of Russia	Persian Empire	Inconclusive
Russian–Manchu border conflicts (1652-1689)	Tsardom of Russia Cossacks	Qing Empire Joseon Dynasty	Defeat Treaty of Nerchinsk
Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)	Tsardom of Russia Ukrainian Cossacks	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Khanate	Victory Truce of Andrusovo
Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)	Tsardom of Russia	Swedish Empire	Inconclusive Treaty of Valiesar Treaty of Cardis
Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681)	Tsardom of Russia	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Indecisive^[1] Treaty of Bakhchisarai
Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) Part of the Great Turkish War	Tsardom of Russia Habsburg Empire Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack Hetmanate	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Victory Treaty of Constantinople (1700)
Great Northern War (1700-1721)	Tsardom of Russia 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 Victory against Sweden Treaty of Nystad Defeat against Ottoman Empire Treaty of the Pruth
Kazakh-Russian conflicts (1717-1847)	Russian Empire Bashkirs Cossack rebels	Kazakh Khanate Kyrgyz tribes Khanate of Khiva	Eventual Victory Russia annexes the Kazakhs.

Russian Empire (1721–1917)

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Russo-Persian War (1722–1723)	Russia Ukrainian Cossacks Armenia Georgia	Safavid Persian Empire Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1723)
War of the Polish Succession (1733-1738)	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)
Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739)	Russia Cossack Hetmanate (Protectorate of Russian Empire) Habsburg Monarchy	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate (Ottoman protectorate)	Victory Victory for the Russian Empire Defeat for the Habsburg Monarchy Treaty of Niš (1739)
Bashkir Rebellion (1735-1740)	Russia	Bashkirs	Victory
Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) Part of the War of the Austrian Succession	Russia	Sweden	Victory Treaty of Åbo
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)	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) Russia 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)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763) Russian involvement until 1762	France Habsburg Monarchy Spain Sweden Russia Saxony	Prussia Great Britain Hanover Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Portugal Hesse-Kassel Schaumburg-Lippe Iroquois Confederacy	White peace Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1762) Defeat of Russia's former allies
War of the Bar Confederation (1768-1772)	Russia	Kingdom of France Bar Confederation	Victory Treaty of Kuçuk Kainarji
Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)	Russia	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate (Ottoman protectorate)	Victory Treaty of Kuçuk Kainarji
Pugachev's Rebellion (1773-1775)	Russia	Ural Cossacks Peasant rebels Ottoman Empire	Victory Rebellion defeated.
Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)	Russia	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Jassy
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)	Russia	Sweden	Inconclusive
Polish–Russian War of 1792 (1792)	Russia Targowica Confederates	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Victory Second Partition of Poland
Persian Expedition of 1796 (1796)	Russia	Persian Empire	Victory
War of the Second Coalition (1799-1802) Russia left the coalition in 1799	Habsburg Monarchy Holy Roman Empire Great Britain Russia French Royalists Portugal Two Sicilies Ottoman Empire	French Republic Spain Denmark-Norway Polish Legions French client states	Defeat
War of the Third Coalition (1803-1806)	Austrian Empire Russia United Kingdom Kingdom of Sicily Kingdom of Naples Portugal Sweden	First French Empire French client states	Defeat Peace of Pressburg
Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)	Russia	Persian Empire	Victory Treaty of Gulistan
War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807)	Prussia United Kingdom Saxony Sweden Russia Sicily	French Empire French client states Spain Confederation of the Rhine Bavaria Württemberg Italy Naples Polish Legions	Defeat Treaties of Tilsit
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)	Russia	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Bucharest
Finnish War (1808-1809)	Russia	Sweden	Victory Treaty of Fredrikshamn
War of the Fifth Coalition (1809) Galician campaign: minimal Russian involvement	French Empire Confederation of the Rhine Italy Spain Duchy of Warsaw Russia	Austria United Kingdom Sicily Sardinia	Victory Treaty of Schönbrunn
French invasion of Russia (1812)	Russia	French Empire French client states	Victory
War of the Sixth Coalition (1813-1814)	Austrian Empire Prussia United Kingdom Sweden Russia Spain Portugal Sicily Sardinia	First French Empire French client states	Victory Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814)
War of the Seventh Coalition (1815)	Austrian Empire Prussia United Kingdom Russia Hanover Nassau Brunswick Sweden United Netherlands Spain Portugal Sardinia Sicily Tuscany Switzerland French Royalists	First French Empire Naples	Victory Treaty of Paris (1815)
Caucasian War (1817-1864)	Russian Empire Principality of Mingrelia Principality of Guria	Caucasian Imamate Circassia Abkhazian insurgents Big Kabarda (to 1825) Principality of Svaneti Khanate of Kazi-Kumukh Dagestan free people Avar Khanate (1829–1859)	Victory Caucasus annexed into Russia. Surrender of Imam Shamil Ethnic cleansing of Circassians
Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)	Russia	Persian Empire	Victory Treaty of Turkmenchay
Battle of Navarino (1827) Part of the Greek War of Independence	United Kingdom First French Empire Russia	Ottoman Empire Eyalet of Egypt Vilayet of Tunisia	Victory
Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)	Russia	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of Adrianople (1829)
November Uprising (1830-1831)	Russia	Congress Poland	Victory
Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839–1841)	British Empire Austrian Empire Russian Empire Ottoman Empire	Egypt Kingdom of the French Spain	Victory Egypt renounced its claim to Syria.
Invasion of Northern Kyrgyzstan (1847)	Kyrgyz tribe of Ormon Khan Russian Empire	Kazakh Khanate	Victory Death of Kenesary Khan.
Crimean War (1853-1856)	Russia	French Empire Ottoman Empire British Empire Kingdom of Sardinia	Defeat Treaty of Paris (1856)
January Uprising (1863-1864)	Russian Empire	Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian insurgents	Victory
Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)	Russian Empire Bulgarian volunteers Romania Serbia Montenegro	Ottoman Empire	Victory Treaty of San Stefano Treaty of Berlin (1878) Reestablishment of the Bulgarian state. De jure independence of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro from Ottoman Empire. Kars Oblast and Batumi Oblast become a part of the Russian Empire.
Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)	Eight-Nation Alliance: Japan United Kingdom Russia France United States Germany Austria-Hungary Italy	Righteous Harmony Society Qing Empire	Victory
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)	Russia Principality of Montenegro	Empire of Japan	Defeat Treaty of Portsmouth
World War I (1914-1918)	Allies: France United Kingdom Russian Empire United States China Italy Japan Canada Australia New Zealand India South Africa Serbia Romania Belgium Greece Portugal Brazil	Central Powers: German Empire Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Bulgaria	Defeat Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, terminated after eventual Allied victory
Basmachi revolt (1916-1934)	Soviet Russia Turkestan ASSR Kirghiz ASSR	Basmachi Khiva Bukhara Afghanistan	Victory

Russian SFSR (1917–1922)

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Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Results
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 British Empire 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
Ukrainian War of Independence (1917–1921)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Makhnovshchina	Ukrainian People's Republic West Ukrainian People's Republic German Empire (1918) Poland (1920-1921) Hetmanate of Ukraine White Movement German Empire (1917–1918) Romania (1918) Poland (1918–1919) France (1919) Greece (1919)	Victory Formation of the Ukrainian SSR
Kazakhstan Campaign (1917–1920)	Russian SFSR	Alash Autonomy	Victory Incorporation of Kazakhstan into the Soviet Union
Finnish Civil War (1918)	Russian SFSR Red Guard	White Guard Germany	Defeat Independence of Finland
Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920)	Russian SFSR Latvian SSR	Latvian Army Estonia Lieven Poland Lithuania Supported by the Allied Powers VI Reserve Corps: Baltische Landeswehr Freikorps merged into the West Russian Volunteer Army in September 1919	Defeat Independence of Latvia
Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920)	Russian SFSR Commune of Estonia	Estonia Latvia United Kingdom White Movement Finnish, Danish, and Swedish volunteers Baltische Landeswehr	Defeat Independence of Estonia Tartu Peace Treaty
Lithuanian–Soviet War (1918–1919)	Russian SFSR LBSSR	Republic of Lithuania Saxon Volunteers	Defeat Expulsion of Bolshevik forces from Lithuania
Georgian-Ossetian Conflict (1918–1920)	Russian SFSR Ossetian rebels	Transcaucasian Federation Georgia	Defeat Crushing of the Ossetian rebellion
Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Poland Ukraine	Defeat Peace of Riga
Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923)	Turkey Soviet Russia^[2]	Greece Armenia	Victory Overthrow of the Ottoman Sultanate Establishment of the Republic of Turkey
Invasion of Azerbaijan (1920)	Russian SFSR Azerbaijan SSR	Azerbaijan	Victory Overthrow of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic government
Invasion of Georgia (1921)	Russian SFSR Armenian SSR Azerbaijan SSR Turkey	Georgia	Victory Establishment of the Georgian SSR
February Uprising (1921)	Russian SFSR	Armenia	Victory Re-annexation of Yerevan by Bolshevik forces
Battle of Mountainous Armenia (1921)	Russian SFSR Turkey Azerbaijan SSR	Armenia	Defeat Republic of Mountainous Armenia united with Armenian SSR
East Karelian Uprising (1921–1922)	Russian SFSR	Forest Guerrillas Finnish volunteers	Victory Crushing of the uprising

Soviet Union (1922–1991)