Chyhyryn campaign (1678)
| Chyhyryn campaign | |||||||
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| Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1672–1681) | |||||||
Plan of the Chigirin fortress, 1678 from the diary of Patrick Gordon | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Left-Bank Hetmanate Tsardom of Russia Supported by: Zaporozhian Sich |
Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Right-Bank Hetmanate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ivan Samoylovych Grigory Romodanovsky Patrick Gordon Kasbulat Cherkassky Grigory Kosagov V.A. Zmeev Ivan Rzhevski † Supported by: Ivan Sirko |
Mehmed IV Kara Mustafa Pasha Kaplan Pasha Ker Hasan Pasha Murad Giray Yuri Khmelnitsky | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 120,000 |
200,000 Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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c. 17,000 killed and wounded or ~8,000 killed; ~7,000 wounded |
12,000–36,000 casualties Unknown | ||||||
The Chyhyryn campaign or Chigirin campaign was launched by the Ottoman-led coalition against the Cossack-Russian defenders of Chyhyryn with the goal of capturing the fortress, from 8 July to 17 August 1678.