The Battle of Lesnaya is one of the major battles of the Great Northern War.
It takes place on September 28, 1708 (O.S.)
/ September 29, 1708 (Swedish calendar) / October 9, 1708 (N.S.)
between a Russian army of 18,000 men commanded by the Princes Repnin and Menshikov, and a Swedish force of about 13,000 men, under the command of General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, at the village of Lesnaya, located close to the border between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia (now the village of Lyasnaya, south-east of Mogilev in Belarus).
