Carpathian Campaign

Battle of Carpathians
Part of the Eastern Front during World War I
Date January 23 – April 24 1915 Location Carpathian Mountains, Austria-Hungary Result Russian victory[1][2][3] Full results Russia was able to protect the troops besieging Przemysl[4] Attempt of the central powers to break the siege of Przemysl failed Territorial changes Russians take the northern Carpathians blocking the central powers in the gorges of the southern Carpathians, Russians break through to the Hungarian plain[5]
Belligerents
Russian Empire	German Empire  Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Nikolai Ivanov A. Y. von Saltza Radko Dimitriev Aleksei Evert Paul von Plehwe Nikolai Ruzsky Platon Lechitsky Aleksei Brusilov	Archduke Friedrich Conrad von Hötzendorf Svetozar Boroević von Bojna Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin Alexander von Linsingen
Units involved
3rd Army 11th Army 8th Army 9th Army	2nd Army 3rd Army 4th Army South Army
Strength
On 23.01.1915 only combat troops[6]: 317,763 infantry 53,243 cavalry 919 machine guns 1,480 guns	On 23.01.1915 only combat troops[7]: 389,204 infantry 23,384 cavalry 1,056 machine guns 3,118 guns
Casualties and losses
800,000[8] to 1,000,000[9] total casualties including 59,000 captures[10]	800,000[11][12][13][a] to 900,000[9] casualties including 150,000 captures[16]

The Carpathian Front, sometimes referred to as the Carpathian Winter War of 1915 was one of the largest military operations on the Eastern Front in terms of scale, duration, the number of troops involved in it and the losses of the parties.

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