Siberian Expedition
Siberian Intervention |
Part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Eastern Front
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Japanese lithograph depicting the capture of Blagoveshchensk
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Date |
August 1918 – July 1920; October 1922 (Japanese withdrawal) |
Location |
Eastern Siberia, Far East, Mongolia |
Result |
Bolshevik victory
- Allied withdrawal
- Bolsheviks regained Siberia
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Belligerents |
Russian SFSR
Far Eastern Republic
Mongolian communists
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Allied Powers
White movement
Empire of Japan
Czechoslovakia
United States
Canada
Italy
China
United Kingdom
France
Poland
Mongolia
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Commanders and leaders |
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Mikhail Frunze
Vasily Blyukher
Ivan Konev
Damdin Sükhbaatar
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Alexander Kolchak
Grigory Semyonov
Ivan Kalmykov
Yui Mitsue
William S. Graves
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Strength |
600,000 |
70,000 Japanese
50,000 Czechoslovaks
7,950 Americans
2,400 Italians
1,500 Britons
4,192 Canadian
2,300 Chinese
800 French
several thousands of Poles
Total:
~ More than 100,000 |
Casualties and losses |
Unknown |
Unknown
5,000 dead from combat and disease
48 killed
14 killed |
Bolshevik victory
Allied Powers
White movement
Empire of Japan
Czechoslovakia
United States
Canada
Italy
China
United Kingdom
France
Poland
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