Siberian intervention
1918–1922 military operation against Soviet Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China to support White Russian forces and the Czechoslovak Legion against Soviet Russia and its allies during the Russian Civil War. The Imperial Japanese Army continued to occupy Siberia even after other Allied forces withdrew in 1920.
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Siberian intervention | |||||||||
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Part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Eastern Front | |||||||||
Allied commanders of the Siberian intervention. Front row: William S. Graves (3rd), Otani Kikuzo (4th) and Yui Mitsue (5th). | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Mongolian People's Party |
Allied Powers:
Mongolia | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Frunze Vasily Blyukher Yakov Tryapitsyn Aleksandr Samoilov Sergey Lazo A. Krasnoshchyokov Damdin Sükhbaatar |
Alexander Kolchak Grigory Semyonov Mikhail Diterikhs Ivan Kalmykov † R. von Ungern-Sternberg Otani Kikuzo Yui Mitsue Shiōden Nobutaka William S. Graves Robert L. Eichelberger Alfred Knox John Ward MP James H. Elmsley Bogd Khan | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
600,000 |
70,000 Japanese ~ More than 140,000 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
7,791 698 killed/missing 2,189 died of disease 1,421 wounded 3,482 evacuated sick/frostbitten (Jan-June 1922 only)[3] |
Unknown 5,000 dead from combat and disease 48 killed 33 killed[4] 19 killed[4] |