Battle of Gaivoron
| Battle of Gaivoron | |||||||
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| Part of the Left-Bank Uprising | |||||||
Map of the battles at Gaivoron and Konotop in October of 1668 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Tsardom of Russia |
Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Andrey Romodanovsky (POW) Aleksandr Skuratov (POW) Mikhail Tolstoy (POW) Mikhail Golovnin (POW) |
Grigoriy Doroshenko Petro Sukhoviy Qirim-Giray | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 600 soldiers |
7,000 Cossacks 15,000 Tatars | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Heavy | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Gaivoron (Ukrainian: Битва під Гайвороном) was a battle that took place on 10 of October 1668 during the Left-Bank uprising between the Crimean cavalry and the Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Grigoriy Doroshenko and kalga Qirim-Giray from one side and the Russian forces led by Andrey Romodanovsky on the other. The Tatar–Cossack corps that was sent by Petro Doroshenko to the Left-Bank caught up the Russian forces near the village of Gaivoron (now Chernihiv oblast, Ukraine) and defeated them.