First Riga offensive

First Riga offensive
Part of the Eastern Front of World War I
Summer German Offensive in the Eastern Front 1915
Date 14-31 July 1915 Location Riga area Result German victory part of Riga-Schaulen offensive
Belligerents
German Empire	Russian Empire
Commanders and leaders
Paul von Hindenburg Erich Ludendorff Otto von Below Otto von Lauenstein Manfred von Richthofen	Mikhail Alekseyev Pavel Plehve
Units involved
Army of the Niemen X Army	V Army X Army
Strength
Initially:[1] Army of the Niemen 158,905 men 600 guns Further: X Army 167,710 men	Initially[2]: 5th Army 217,041 men 290 machine guns 488 guns Further: 10th Army: 332,151 men 305 machine guns 784 guns
Casualties and losses
Total: 10,570 men[3] 1,362 KIA 1,808 MIA 7,400 WIA	Total: 50,883 men[4] 6,482 KIA 29,223 MIA 15,178 WIA

First Riga offensive was a military operation of the German Imperial Army with to divert Russian forces from the direction of the main blow of the German summer offensive on Narew River. The Germans broke through the heavily fortified defenses of the Russian army and defeated the vastly superior enemy forces. However, no decisive success was achieved, and at the beginning of August the Russians launched a counteroffensive.