1945 Soviet invasion of the Japanese-owned Kuril Islands
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Invasion of the Kuril Islands
Part of the Soviet–Japanese War
Map of the invasion of the Kuril Islands
Date
18 August – 2 September 1945
Location
Kuril Islands
Result
Soviet victory
Territorial changes
Kuril Islands annexed to the Soviet Union
Belligerents
Soviet Union
Japan
Commanders and leaders
Aleksandr Ksenofontov Aleksei Gnechko Dmitry Ponomarev
Fusaki Tsutsumi
Strength
15,000 troops[citation needed]
80,000 troops[1]
Casualties and losses
at least 962 killed[2] at least 1,026 wounded
at least 1,018 killed or wounded 50,422 surrendered
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Japan campaign
Air raids
Doolittle Raid
Yawata
Nagaoka
Numazu
Tokyo
Meetinghouse
Nagoya
Osaka
Kobe
1st Kure
Sendai
Fukui
Fukuoka
Kōfu
Akita
Aomori
Gifu
Hamamatsu
Hiratsuka
Utsunomiya
Toyohashi
Toyokawa
Yokkaichi
Okazaki
Shizuoka
Kumagaya
Yokosuka
2nd Kure
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Battles
Mariana Islands
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands
Starvation
Naval bombardments
Sagami Bay
South Sakhalin
Kuril Islands
Downfall (cancelled)
Hokkaido (cancelled)
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Soviet–Japanese War
Manchuria
Khingan–Mukden
Gegenmiao
Harbin–Kirin
Mutanchiang
Hutou Fortress
Songhua River
Amur River
Fuyuan
Heihe
Fujin
Northern Korea
Unggi
Rason
Chongjin
Kimchaek
Wonsan
Japan
South Sakhalin
Maoka
Toro
Otomari
Kuril Islands
Shumshu
Hokkaido (cancelled)
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Pacific War
Central Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Marshalls–Gilberts raids
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Doolittle Raid
Midway
Gilberts and Marshalls
Marianas and Palau
Volcano and Ryukyu
Truk
Ocean Island
Indian Ocean (1941–1945)
Japanese merchant raids
Andaman Islands
Homfreyganj massacre
Christmas Island
1st Indian Ocean
Ceylon
Bay of Bengal
2nd Indian Ocean
Southeast Asia
Indochina (1940)
Franco-Thai War
Thailand
Malaya
Hong Kong
Singapore
Indochina (1945)
Malacca Strait
Jurist
Tiderace
Zipper
Strategic bombing (1944–45)
Burma and India
Burma (1941–42)
Burma (1942–43)
Burma and India (1944)
Burma (1944–45)
Southwest Pacific
Dutch East Indies (1941–42)
Philippines (1941–42)
RY
Solomon Islands
Coral Sea
Timor
Australia
New Guinea
New Britain
Philippines (1944–45)
Borneo (1945)
North America
Ellwood
Aleutian Islands
Estevan Point Lighthouse
Fort Stevens
Lookout Air Raids
Fire balloon bombs
Project Hula
PX
Japan
Air raids
Tokyo
Yokosuka
Kure
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mariana Islands
Volcano and Ryukyu Islands
Starvation
Naval bombardments
Sagami Bay
South Sakhalin
Kuril Islands
Shumshu
Downfall
Japanese surrender
Manchuria and Northern Korea
Kantokuen
Manchuria (1945)
Mutanchiang
Chongjin
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Invasion of the Kuril Islands (Russian: Курильская десантная операция, lit. 'Kuril Islands Landing Operation') was the World War II Soviet military operation to capture the Kuril Islands from Japan in 1945. The invasion, part of the Soviet–Japanese War, was decided on when plans to land on Hokkaido were abandoned. The successful military operations of the Red Army at Mutanchiang and during the invasion of South Sakhalin created the necessary prerequisites for invasion of the Kuril Islands.
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Glantz, David. August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria. Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass Publishers. p. 8.
^Our Kuriles and Japanese Claims Archived 31 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine p. 22, retrieved 6 April 2018
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