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Siege of Khujand
Part of The Russian conquest of Central Asia
Gates of Khujand after capture
Date 19 May – 25 May 1866 Location Ak-Mechet (modern Kyzylorda) Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Russian Empire	Khanate of Kokand
Commanders and leaders
Dmitry Romanovsky	Unknown
Casualties and losses
5 killed, 65 wounded, 6 missing	Over 2,500 killed

The siege of Khujand took place from May 19 to May 25 1866, during the Russo-Kokand War.

Prelude

Khujand

Siege

The Russian plan of siege and assault

Walls destroyed during the siege

References

Citations

• Venyukov, Mikhail Ivanovich (1865). The Russians in Central Asia. Translated by Michell, John; Michell, Robert. London: Edward Stanford.

• Abaza, Konstantin Konstantinovich (1902). Завоевание Туркестана [Conquest of Turkestan] (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Publishing House of Mikhail Stasyulevich.

• Terentyev, Mikhail Afrikanovich (1906). Историю завоевания Средней Азии [The history of the conquest of Central Asia] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Saint Petersburg.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Kilian, Janet Marie (2013). Allies and Adversaries: The Russian Conquest of the Kazakh Steppe (Thesis).

• Levi, Scott Cameron (2017). The rise and fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876: Central Asia in the global age. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-6506-0.

• Morrison, Alexander (2021). The Russian conquest of Central Asia: a study in imperial expansion, 1814-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03030-5.