Siege of Silistra (1773)

Siege of Silistra (1773)
	Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
	; Plan of Russian military operations around Silistra in June 1773
Date	18–29 June 1773
Location	Silistra, Ottoman Empire44°6′33.257″N 27°15′55.372″E / 44.10923806°N 27.26538111°E
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Osman Pasha; Seyyid Hasan Pasha; Çerkes Pasha	Pyotr Rumyantsev; Aleksey Stupishin; Grigory Potemkin; Otto Weismann; Iosif Igelström; Fyodor Glebov; Nikolai Kokovinsky; Franz Klitschka; Mikhail Leontyev; Henry Lloyd
Strength
70,000 24,000 to 30,000 garrison; 7,000 relief force; 33,000 unengaged; ;	21,380 to 50,000; 74 field guns; Numerous mortars
Casualties and losses
18 June:; 600 casualties (Bogdanovich)	18 June:; 8,000 killed; 1,000 injured; (von Hammer-Purgstall); ; 300 casualties (Bogdanovich); ; Total:; Bodart: 5,000 killed, 14 cannons
	Location within Europe Siege of Silistra (1773) (Bulgaria)

The siege of Silistra was a military siege undertaken by Russia between 18 and 29 June 1773 against the Ottoman city of Silistria. The siege was an important phase of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), and resulted in an Ottoman victory.