Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin
| Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin | |||||||||
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| Part of the Soviet–Japanese War | |||||||||
Map of the Invasion of South Sakhalin | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Soviet Union | Japan | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Maksim Purkayev Leonty Cheremisov Anatoly Petrakovsky Ivan Baturov |
Kiichiro Higuchi Saburo Hagi Junichiro Mineki | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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16th Army Pacific Fleet | Fifth Area Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 100,000 men | 19,000 men (excluding 10,000 reservists) | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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56th Rifle Corps: 527+ killed 845+ wounded Pacific Fleet: 89+ killed Total killed: 616–1,191+ killed |
Northern Army: 700–2,000 killed 18,202 captured | ||||||||
| 3,500–3,700 Japanese civilian casualties | |||||||||
The Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin, also known as the Battle of Sakhalin (Russian: Южно-Сахалинская операция, romanized: Yuzhno-Sakhalinskaya operatsiya; Japanese: 樺太の戦い, romanized: Karafuto no tatakai), was the Soviet invasion of the Japanese portion of Sakhalin Island also known as Karafuto Prefecture. The invasion was part of the Soviet–Japanese War, a minor campaign in the Asian Theatre during Second World War.