Battle of the Zolota Lypa

Battle of the Zolota Lypa
Part of Battle of Galicia of the Eastern Front in the World War I

The battle on the Zolota and Gnyla Lypa rivers
Date26–28 August [O.S. 13–15 August] 1914
Location
Zolota Lypa, Austria-Hungary (modern day Ukraine
Result Russian victory[1]
Belligerents
 Austria-Hungary Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Rudolf von Brudermann Nikolai Ruzsky
Units involved
Austria-Hungary 3rd Army 3rd Army
Strength
160,000 men
482 guns[2]		 215,000 men
685 guns[3]
Casualties and losses
Heavy Heavy, but less than central powers[2]

Battle of the Zolota Lypa (‹See Tfd›Russian: Сражение на Золотой Липе) There was a meeting engagement between the 3rd Russian and 3rd Austrian armies, the cadre troops of both armies met, so the battle was very tense, both sides tried to carry out mutual flanking maneuver.[4]

However, the battle soon ended, the Russians were successfully able to defeat the Austrian 11th corps on the Bug, which forced the entire army to stand on the defensive, and then retreat.[5]

The main reason for the failure of the Austrian troops was that they decided to conduct offensive operations against almost twice the size of the enemy, it played a cruel joke on them.[6]

  1. ^ Nelipovich 2017, p. 37.
  2. ^ a b Zayonchkovski 2002, p. 201.
  3. ^ Zayonchkovski 2002, p. 200.
  4. ^ Oleynikov 2016, p. 56.
  5. ^ Встречное сражение 3-й русской и 3-й австро-венгерской армий на реке Золотая Липа Проект памяти Героев великой войны
  6. ^ Zayonchkovski 2002, p. 202.