Battle of the Alta River

This article is about the 1068 battle between the Cumans and Kievan Rus'. For the 1019 battle between Sviatopolk and Yaroslav, see Battle of the Alta River (1019).
Battle of the Alta River
Part of Rus'-Cuman wars
Date1068
Location
Alta River
50°03′00″N 31°26′00″E / 50.05°N 31.433333°E / 50.05; 31.433333
Result Cuman victory
Belligerents
Cuman–Kipchak confederation Kievan Rus'
Commanders and leaders
Khan Sharukan Grand Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev
Prince Sviatoslav of Chernigov
Prince Vsevolod of Periaslavl
Location within Ukraine
Battle of the Alta River (European Russia)

The Battle of Alta River was a 1068 clash on the Alta River between Cuman army on the one hand and Kievan Rus' forces of Grand Prince Iziaslav I of Kiev, Prince Sviatoslav of Chernigov, and Prince Vsevolod of Periaslavl on the other in which the Rus' forces were routed and fled back to Kiev and Chernigov in some disarray. The battle led to an uprising in Kiev that briefly deposed Grand Prince Iziaslav. That incident supposedly shows the power of the Kiev veche and how common people gathering influenced princely politics in Kievan Rus' (particularly in Kiev as well as in the Novgorod the Great).

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