✦ History

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

March 1, 1932 – September 16, 1939

Result Soviet–Mongolian victory

Series of border clashes between the Soviet Union and Mongolia on one side and Japan and Manchukuo on the other, ending with the Japanese defeat at Khalkhin Gol in 1939.

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Battles 4

January 8, 1935
Battle of Khalkhyn Temple Mongolian victory
June 1937
Kanchazu Island incident Japanese victory
July 29 – August 11, 1938
Battle of Lake Khasan Ceasefire Lake Khasan Vasily Blyukher, Kōtoku Satō, Grigori Shtern
May 11 – September 16, 1939
Battles of Khalkhin Gol Soviet–Mongolian victory Khalkhin Gol Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Georgy Zhukov, Kōtoku Satō

Key commanders

Soviet Union and Mongolia 7

Khorloogiin Choibalsan military commander Georgy Zhukov military commander Grigori Shtern military commander Yakov Smushkevich military commander Joseph Stalin military commander Vasily Blyukher military commander Nikolai Berzarin military commander

Japan and Manchukuo 7

Kōtoku Satō military commander Michitarō Komatsubara military commander Masaomi Yasuoka military commander Hirohito military commander Yoshijirō Umezu military commander Rensuke Isogai military commander Kenkichi Ueda military commander