Seishin Operation

Seishin Operation
Part of the Soviet–Japanese War of World War II

Soviet troops in Korea, 15 August 1945
Date13–17 August 1945
Location
Chongjin, northern Korea
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
 Soviet Union  Japan
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Yumashev
Vasily Trushin		 Sokichi Nishiwaki
Hiroshi Takumi
Units involved

Soviet Pacific Fleet[1]

  • 140th Reconnaissance Detachment
  • 13th Marine Brigade
  • 355th Marine Battalion
  • 62nd Machine Gun Battalion

Far Eastern Front

  • 335th Rifle Division
    • 205th Rifle Regiment
    • 390th Machine Gun Battalion
  • 393rd Rifle Division

Ranam-guyok Military District

  • 19th Division
    • 73rd Infantry Regiment
    • 76th Infantry Regiment
    • 19th Reconnaissance Regiment
  • Ranam Infantry School Battalion

3rd Army

Local police force
Strength
over 6,500 men 4,000–5,700[2] men
Casualties and losses
230–300 killed and missing 227 killed[3]

The Seishin Operation (Russian: Сэйсинская операция, romanized: Seysinskaya operatsiya, Korean: 청진 상륙 작전), also called Chongjin Landing Operation, was an amphibious assault on northern Korea between 13–17 August 1945, carried out by the forces of the Soviet Northern Pacific Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet during the Soviet–Japanese War at the end of World War II.

  1. ^ Внезапный десант под занавес Второй мировой. warspot.ru (in Russian). 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ JM-155 p. 264
  3. ^ JM-155 p. 264. 110 killed during the initial phase and 117 during the defensive phase