Back اجتياح جزر كوريل Arabic Invasionen af Kurilerne Danish Invasión soviética de las Islas Kuriles Spanish Kuril Uharteen inbasioa Basque Kuriilien maihinnousu Finnish Invasion des îles Kouriles French הפלישה לאיים הקוריליים HE Invazija na Kurilske otoke Croatian Invasi Kepulauan Kuril ID Invasione delle Isole Curili Italian
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| Invasion of the Kuril Islands | |||||||||
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| Part of the Soviet–Japanese War | |||||||||
 Map of the invasion of the Kuril Islands | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Soviet Union |
 Empire of Japan | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Aleksandr Ksenofontov Aleksei Gnechko Dmitry Ponomarev |
Fusaki Tsutsumi  | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 15,000 troops[citation needed] | 80,000 troops[1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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at least 962 killed[2] at least 1,026 wounded |
at least 1,018 killed or wounded 50,422 surrendered | ||||||||
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.
- ^ 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