| Action of 8 January 1916 | |||||||
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| Part of World War I | |||||||
 Russian stamp depicting Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Russian Empire |
 Ottoman Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Andrei Eberhardt |
Wilhelm Souchon | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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1 battleship 2 destroyers |
1 battlecruiser 1 collier | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| None |
1 collier sunk 1 battlecruiser damaged | ||||||
On 8 January 1916 the Russian dreadnought Imperatritsa Ekaterina Velikaya and the Ottoman battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim encountered one another in the Black Sea. After a brief exchange of fire the Ottomans withdrew.