List of military operations by Russia and the Soviet Union
This article lists military operations of the Russian principalities, the Russian Empire , the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.
Until the 17th century
- 1368–1372 Russian-Lithuanian War
- 1487–1494 Russian-Lithuanian War
- 1495–1497 Russian-Swedish War
- 1500–1503 Russian-Lithuanian War
- 1507–1508 Russian-Lithuanian War
- 1512–1522 Russo-Lithuanian War (1512–1522)
- 1534–1537 Russian-Lithuanian War
- 1554–1557 Swedish-Russian War
- 1558–1570 Russian-Lithuanian War
- 1590–1595 Russo-Swedish War
- 1609–1618 First Russian-Polish War
- 1611–1617 Russian-Swedish War
- 1632–1634 Second Russian-Polish War
- 1654–1667 Russian-Polish War
- 1656–1658 Russian-Swedish War
- 1676–1681 Russian-Ottoman War
18th century
- 1700–1721: Great Northern War
- 1722–1723: Russo-Persian War
- 1735–1739: Russian-Austrian Turkish War
- 1740–1742: First Silesian War
- 1741–1743: Swedish-Russian War
- 1768–1772: War against the Bar Confederation
- 1768–1774: Russo-Ottoman War
- 1783: annexation of the Crimea
- 1787–1792: Russian-Austrian Turkish War
- 1788–1790: Swedish-Russian War
- 1792–1793: Russo-Polish War
- 1794–1795: Russian-Prussian Polish War
- 1798–1802: Second War of Coalition
19th century
- 1804–1813: Russo-Persian War
- 1805: Third coalition war
- 1806–1807: Fourth coalition war
- 1806–1812: Sixth Russian Turkish War
- 1808–1809: Russo-Swedish War
- 1812–1813: Napoleon's Russian campaign
- 1816–1825: Russo-Georgian War
- 1817–1864: Caucasus War
- 1826–1828: Russo-Persian War
- 1828–1829: Russo-Ottoman War
- 1849: Military intervention in favor of Austria in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848/1849
- 1853–1856: Crimean War
- 1857–1858: Russo-Georgian War
- 1865–1868: capture of the emirate of Bukhara
- 1865–1869: Conquest of the Khanate of Kokand
- 1877–1878: Russo-Ottoman War
- 1899–1901: Suppression of the Boxer Rebellion
20th century to 1917
- 1900: Russo-Chinese War
- 1904–1905: Russo-Japanese War
- 1911–1914: Russian invasion of Tabriz , Persia
- 1914–1918: First World War
20th century Russian Soviet Republic / Soviet Union (1917–1991)
- 1917 / 18–1920: Russian Civil War
- 1917–1921: Ukrainian-Soviet War
- 1918: Support of the socialists in the Finnish civil war
- 1918–1920: Estonian , Latvian and Lithuanian Wars of Independence
- 1918–1920: Georgian-South Ossetian conflict
- 1918: Battle of Baku
- 1920–1921: Polish-Soviet War
- 1924: Support for the Tatarbunary uprising in Romania
- 1924: Military suppression of the August uprising in Georgia
- 1929: East China Railroad War
- 1937–1938: Support of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War
- 1938–1939: Japanese-Soviet border conflict
- 1939–1945: Period of World War II
- 1939: Invasion and occupation of Eastern Poland
- 1939–1940: War against Finland in the Soviet-Finnish Winter War
- 1940: Invasion and annexation of the Baltic states
- 1940: Occupation of the Romanian Bessarabia
- 1941–1944: Finnish-Soviet Continuation War
- 1941–1945: Great Patriotic War against the German invaders and their allies
- 1941–1946: Military occupation of Northern Iran
- 1945: Participation in the war against Japan in the last days of the war
- 1945–1948: Communist governments were enforced in states that had come under Soviet influence after the delimitation of the spheres of power decided at the Yalta Conference. In most countries this was only possible with the help of the Red Army (see for example “ History of Poland ”). The consolidation of Soviet influence in this region was complete around 1948.
- 1945–1949: Support of the communist fighters in the Greek civil war
- from 1946: Support of North Vietnam in the Vietnam War
- 1948–1949: Blockade of West Berlin by the Soviet Union from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949
- 1950–1953: Military advisor and fighter pilot in the Korean War
- 1953: Suppression of the uprising of June 17, 1953 in the GDR
- 1956: Suppression of the Hungarian people's uprising
- 1956: Support of Arab socialist countries in the Suez crisis through arms deliveries and military advisers
- 1962: The stationing of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
- 1967: Advising the Egyptian army in the Six Day War , including drawing up war plans
- 1968: The crackdown on the Prague Spring
- 1969: Sino-Soviet border war
- 1974–1991: Military support of the communist regime in the Ethiopian civil war
- 1975–2002: Support of the MPLA in the Angolan civil war
- 1977–1978: Support of Ethiopia in the Ogaden war against Somalia
- 1979–1989: Military intervention in the Afghan civil war
20th century Russia from 1991
- 1991–1992: Military intervention in the Georgian-South Ossetian War
- 1992: Conflict in the East Prigorodny District in North Ossetia
- 1992: Military intervention in the Transnistria conflict : The Moldovan side alleges that Russia and its 14th Army actively participated in the war.
- 1992–1997: Military intervention in the civil war in Tajikistan
- 1992–1993: Supporting Abkhaz militants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war
- 1994–1996: First Chechen War
- 1999–2009: Second Chechen War
- 1999: Dagestan War
- 1999–2003: Advance to Pristina , then participation in the KFOR mission in Kosovo
21st century
- Since 2006: Participation in Operation Active Endeavor in the Mediterranean
- 2008: Military operation in the Caucasus War on the side of the South Ossetian rebels
- 2009: the fight against the Caucasus Emirate , which since 2015 as part of the IS understands
- 2014: Invasion and subsequent annexation of Crimea
- Since 2014: Military support of the pro-Russian forces in the war in Eastern Ukraine (denied by Russia)
- Since 2015: Military intervention on the part of the Government of Syria in the Syrian civil war
- Since 2015: Military support for the fight against the Islamic State in Syria
- Since 2018: Military support for the fight against the Libyan government on the part of Marshal Haftar with Wagner mercenaries from the GRU
- Since 2019: Military support for the fight against the Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jama in Mozambique with Wagner mercenaries from the GRU