For other battles fought for the city of Lemberg, see Battle of Lwów (disambiguation).
Battle of Galicia
Part of the Eastern Front during World War I
Eastern Front, September 1914.
Date
23 August – 11 September 1914
Location
Lemberg, Galicia (modern-day Lviv, Ukraine)
Result
Russian victory
Full results
45% of all Austrian manpower on the eastern front was destroyed[1][2][3]
Russia's victory forced Austria to withdraw troops from the Serbian front, which eventually helped the Serbs win the campaign[4]
Creation General Government of Galicia and Bukovina[5]
Territorial changes
Russian occupation of Eastern Galicia and Northern Bukovina
Belligerents
Russian Empire
Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Nikolai Ivanov A. Y. von Saltza Aleksei Evert Pavel Plehve Nikolai Ruzsky Aleksei Brusilov
Archduke Friedrich Conrad von Hötzendorf V. D. von Krasnik Moritz von Auffenberg Rudolf von Brudermann E. von Böhm-Ermolli H. K. von Kövessháza Heinrich von Kummer (General, 1874) [de]
Units involved
Southwestern Front
3rd Army
4th Army
5th Army
8th Army
1st Army 3rd Army 4th Army Army group Kövess Army group Kummer
The Battle of Galicia was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914. In the course of the battle, the Austro-Hungarian armies were severely defeated and forced out of Galicia, while the Russians captured Lemberg and, for approximately nine months, ruled Eastern Galicia until their defeat at Gorlice and Tarnów.
^Oleynikov 2016, p. 248.
^Auffenberg-Komarow M. von. Aus Österreich-Ungarns Teilnahme am
Weltkriege. - Berlin und Wien, 1920. S. 284.
^Габсбурги: Власть над миром / Мартин Рейди ; Пер. с англ. — М. :
Альпина нон-фикшн, 2023. — 510 с. + 16 с. вкл.
ISBN 978-5-00139-266-8
^Oleynikov 2016.
^Царствование Императора Николая 2/ Сергей Ольденбург.-М.:Центрполиграф, 2022.-654 с. ISBN 978-5-227-09905-1
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