Carpathian Front

Battle of Carpathians
	Part of the Eastern Front during World War I
Date	23 January - April 1915
Location	Carpathian Mountains, Austria-Hungary
Result	Strategic Russian victory Russia was able to protect the troops besieging Przemysl;
Belligerents
Russian Empire	German Empire; Austria-Hungary
Commanders and leaders
Nikolai Ivanov; A. Y. von Saltza; 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
3rd Army; 11th Army; 8th Army; 9th Army	2nd Army; 3rd Army; 4th Army; South Army
Strength
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
Total 457,168 ; 69,464 KIA ; 135,678 MIA ; 252,026 WIA	Total 473,583 ; 43,194 KIA ; 308,339 MIA ; 122,050 WIA

The Carpathian Front, sometimes referred to as the Carpathian Winter War, of 1915 was one of the largest military operations on the Eastern Front at 1915 in terms of scale, duration, the number of troops involved in it and the losses of the parties.

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