Carpathian Campaign
| Battle of Carpathians | |||||||||
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| Part of the Eastern Front during World War I | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Russian Empire |
German Empire Austria-Hungary | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Nikolai Ivanov A. Y. von Saltza (WIA) 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 | |||||||||
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3rd Army 11th Army 8th Army 9th Army |
2nd Army 3rd Army 4th Army South Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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On 23.01.1915 only combat troops: 317,763 infantry 53,243 cavalry 919 machine guns 1,480 guns |
On 23.01.1915 only combat troops: 389,204 infantry 23,384 cavalry 1,056 machine guns 3,118 guns | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 457,476 to 1,000,000 casualties | 523,128 to 900,000 casualties | ||||||||
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.