Sungari Offensive Operation

Sungari Offensive Operation
	Part of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria of World War II
	; A Project 1125-class armored gunboat that took part in the Sungari Operation, mounted as part of a monument in Blagoveshchensk, Russia. Photographed on 24 August 2008.
Date	9 August – 2 September 1945
Location	Manchuria
Result	Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Japan; Manchukuo
Commanders and leaders
Maksim Purkayev; Neon Antonov	Mikio Uemura; Jin Izeki; Otozō Yamada
Units involved
2nd Far Eastern Front 2nd Red Banner Army; 15th Army; 16th Army; 5th Separate Rifle Corps; 10th Air Army; Amur Flotilla; Amur Air Defense Army;	Kwantung Army First Area Army Fourth Army; Songhua River Flotilla;
Strength
333,000 men; 5,988 guns and mortars; 72 rocket launchers; 917 tanks and self-propelled guns; 1,260 aircraft	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	1,578 killed; 266,000 captured

The Sungari Offensive Operation was a military campaign conducted by the Red Army against Japanese forces during the Soviet–Japanese War. It took place from 9 August to 2 September 1945 and was carried out by troops of the 2nd Far Eastern Front and the Amur Flotilla. The operation formed part of the broader Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation and had a primary objective of assisting the troops of the Transbaikal Front and 1st Far Eastern Front in defeating the Japanese Kwantung Army. The operation succeeded in capturing the northern and northeastern parts of Manchuria from the Japanese.