Siege of Anapa (1791)

Siege of Anapa
Part of Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
Russo-Circassian War

Gate of the Anapa fortress
DateJune 22 (O.S.) / July 3 (N.S.), 1791
Location
Anapa fortress, Circassia
Result Russian victory
Belligerents
 Russia Ottoman Empire
 Circassia
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Gudovich Mansur Ushurma (POW)
Mustafa-Paşa (POW)
Strength
18,000–20,000 23,000
  •   15,000-strong Ottoman garrison (Anapa)
  •   8,000-strong Circassian relief
Casualties and losses
4,000 privates
93 officers
8,000 killed and wounded;
7,000–14,000 prisoners of war, drowned, or dead

The siege of Anapa or the storming of Anapa (Russian: Штурм Анапы; Adyghe: Быгъуркъал Къэуцухьэ; Turkish: Anapa Kuşatması) was a siege that took place on July 3, 1791, when the Russian Empire attacked the Turkish-regulated Anapa fort in Circassia as part of the Russo-Turkish War and the Russo-Circassian War.