Siege of Azov (1637–1642)
| Siege of Azov | |||||||||
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| Part of the Cossack raids and Crimean–Nogai Raids | |||||||||
Memorial to Cossacks who died in Azov | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Don Cossacks Zaporozhian Cossacks |
Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Nogai Horde | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Ivan Katorzhnyi Mikhail Tatarinov Naum Vasiliev Osip Petrov Yasaul F. Poroshin Pavlo Pavliuk (1637) Ivan Sirko Ivan Bohun |
Deli Hüseyin Pasha F. Cantacuzene Khan Bahadır (DOW) Murza Yanmamet (AWOL) | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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1637: c. 4,400: 56 4 light cannons 1641: c. 5,500 300 guns |
1637: 4,000 200 guns 1641: 70,000: 286 to 240,000 150 siege guns 32 mortars | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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1637: 2,000 killed 2,000 wounded 1641: c. 2,750 killed |
1637:
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| Many civilians of Azov killed or enslaved | |||||||||
The siege of Azov, in Russian historiography known as Azov sitting (Russian: Азовское сидение, romanized: Azovskoe sidenie) or Azov crisis (Turkish: Azak krizi) was a series of conflicts over control of Azov fortress between Don–Zaporozhian Cossacks and Ottoman–Crimean–Nogai forces from 21 April 1637 to 30 April 1642.