Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689

Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689
	Part of the Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)
	; An artist's impression of Russian troops returning from their failed Crimean campaign.
Date	1687 and 1689
Location	Chyhyryn, Tsardom of Russia
Result	Ottoman-Crimean Khanate victory Crimean Khanate retained independence; Ottoman expansion in Europe halted; End of the alliance between the Crimean Khanate, France and Imre Thököly;
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate;	Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate;
Commanders and leaders
Selim I Giray; Suleiman II	1st campaign:Vasily Golitsyn; Ivan Samoilovich; Grigory Romodanovsky; 2nd campaign:Vasily Golitsyn; V. D. Dolgorukov (Dolgoruky); M. G. Romodanovsky; Ivan Mazepa
Strength
30,000 – 40,000	1687: 140,000 men; 1689: 112,000 men, 350 guns
Casualties and losses
Unknown	1687: 20,000 dead; 1689: 50,000 dead, all guns lost

The Crimean campaigns of 1687 and 1689 (Russian: Крымские походы, Krymskiye pokhody) were two military campaigns of the Tsardom of Russia against the Crimean Khanate. They were a part of the Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700) and Russo-Crimean Wars. These were the first Russian forces to come close to Crimea since 1569. They failed due to poor planning and the practical problem of moving such a large force across the steppe but nonetheless played a key role in halting the Ottoman expansion in Europe. The campaigns came as a surprise for the Ottoman leadership, spoiled its plans to invade Poland and Hungary and forced it to move significant forces from Europe to the east, which greatly helped the League in its struggle against the Ottomans.

Having signed the Eternal Peace Treaty with Poland in 1686, Russia became a member of the anti-Turkish coalition ("Holy League" — Austria, the Republic of Venice and Poland), which was pushing the Turks south after their failure at Vienna in 1683 (the major result of this war was the conquest by Austria of most of Hungary from Turkish rule). Russia's role in 1687 was to send a force south to Perekop to bottle up the Crimeans inside their peninsula.

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