Battle of Lake Khasan

Battle of Lake Khasan
Part of the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

Lieutenant I. N. Moshlyak and two Soviet soldiers on Zaozernaya Hill after the battle[1][2]
Date29 July – 11 August 1938
(1 week and 6 days)
Location
Lake Khasan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (near Fangchuan, Manchukuo and Rason, Korea, Empire of Japan)
Result Ceasefire[3]
Territorial
changes

Soviets reoccupy Changkufeng after the Japanese withdrawal following a peaceful diplomatic settlement.[4]

Soviet-Japanese border set at the Tumen River[5]
Belligerents
 Soviet Union

 Japan

Commanders and leaders
Units involved
Soviet Border Troops
  • 59th Khasanskiy Detachment
Strength
22,950[6][7]
354 tanks
13 self-propelled guns
237 artillery pieces
70 fighters
180 bombers[8]		 7,000–7,300[9][7]
37 artillery pieces[8]
Casualties and losses
792 killed & missing
3,279 wounded or sick[10] (~1.400 wounded in combat)
46+ tanks destroyed
(Soviet sources)[11]
96 tanks destroyed or crippled
(Japanese sources)[12]		 526 killed[13]
913 wounded[14]

The Battle of Lake Khasan (29 July – 11 August 1938), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (Russian: Хасанские бои, Chinese and Japanese: 張鼓峰事件; Chinese pinyin: Zhānggǔfēng Shìjiàn; Japanese romaji: Chōkohō Jiken) in China and Japan, was an attempted military incursion by Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state, into the territory claimed and controlled by the Soviet Union. That incursion was founded in the Japanese belief that the Soviet Union had misinterpreted the demarcation of the boundary based on the Treaty of Peking between Imperial Russia and Qing China and the subsequent supplementary agreements on demarcation and tampered with the demarcation markers. Japanese forces occupied the disputed area but withdrew after heavy fighting and a diplomatic settlement.[15][7]

  1. ^ Хасанский конфликт // "Военно-исторический журнал", № 7, 2013 (последняя страница обложки)
  2. ^ "Над Заозёрной - красный флаг Советского Союза... Этот флаг водрузил наш земляк, уроженец Алтайского края И.Н. Мошляк. Вскоре его грудь украсила Золотая Звезда Героя Советского Союза"
    В пламени и славе. Очерки истории Краснознамённого Сибирского военного округа. / редколл., предс. Б. Е. Пьянков. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. Новосибирск, Новосибирское кн. изд-во, 1988. стр.61
  3. ^ Coox, Alvin (1985). Nomonhan: Japan against Russia. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-8047-1835-6.
  4. ^ История Китая с древнейших времён до начала XXI века (в 10 томах). Том VII. Китайская республика (1912 - 1949). колл. авт., гл. ред. С. Л. Тихвинский. М., «Наука - Восточная литература». 2013. стр.395-399
  5. ^ Goldman, Stuart (2012). Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-61-251098-9.
  6. ^ General-Lieutenant G.F.KRIVOSHEYEV (1993). "SOVIET ARMED FORCES LOSSES IN WARS,COMBAT OPERATIONS MILITARY CONFLICTS" (PDF). MOSCOW MILITARY PUBLISHING HOUSE. p. 65. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
  7. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ a b Millet and Murray (2010). Military Effectiveness. Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-52-142589-6.
  9. ^ Alvin Coox, Nomonhan (Stanford University Press, 2003), p. 135
  10. ^ General-Lieutenant G. F. KRIVOSHEYEV (1993). "SOVIET ARMED FORCES LOSSES IN WARS,COMBAT OPERATIONS MILITARY CONFLICTS" (PDF). MOSCOW MILITARY PUBLISHING HOUSE. p. 65. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
  11. ^ Baryatinsky, Mikhail. Legkiy tank T-26 (Light Tank T-26). Modelist-Konstruktor. Special Issue No. 2 (2003), pp. 45–46.
  12. ^ Coox, Alvin (July 1973). "The Lake Khasan Affair of 1938: Overview and Lessons". Soviet Studies. 25 (1): 53. doi:10.1080/09668137308410900. JSTOR 150942.
  13. ^ Coox, Alvin (July 1973). "The Lake Khasan Affair of 1938: Overview and Lessons". Soviet Studies. 25 (1): 53. doi:10.1080/09668137308410900. JSTOR 150942.
  14. ^ Coox, Alvin (July 1973). "The Lake Khasan Affair of 1938: Overview and Lessons". Soviet Studies. 25 (1): 53. doi:10.1080/09668137308410900. JSTOR 150942.
  15. ^ Military History Online Retrieved Sept. 14, 2015