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Battle of Riga

Name: Battle of Riga
Start: 1917-09-01
Location: Latvia

Battle of Riga was a battle fought on 1 September 1917 in what is now Latvia. It was part of the WWI Eastern Front, which ran from 1914 to 1918. The recorded result: German victory. Recorded strength: 60,000 against 192,000.

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German troops entering Riga during World War I.. Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Record

Date	1 September 1917
Place	Latvia 56.969N, 24.323E
Part of	WWI Eastern Front (1914 to 1918)
Kind	Battle, First World War
Result	German victory
Territorial change	Germans capture Riga
Belligerents	Germany	Russia
Commanders	Oskar von Hutier; Georg Bruchmüller	Vladislav Klembovsky; Dmitri Parsky
Strength	60,000	192,000
Casualties and losses	4,200–5,000	25,000 casualties; 9,000–15,000 captured

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Jugla 1917, same recorded site
Siege of Riga 1700, 13 km
Siege of Riga 1709, 13 km
Siege of Riga 1812, 13 km
Siege of Riga 1700, 13 km

In the same war

Before: Battle of Zborov 1 July 1917
After: Battle of Jugla 1 September 1917
All 22 engagements of WWI Eastern Front

Elsewhere in 1917

Battle of Riga is one of 1,912 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 39 in present-day Latvia.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q11347885, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Riga offensive (1917), revision 1383912701, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.