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Siberian Expedition

Siberian Intervention
Part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Eastern Front
The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk.jpg
Japanese lithograph depicting the capture of Blagoveshchensk
Date August 1918 – July 1920; October 1922 (Japanese withdrawal)
Location Eastern Siberia, Far East, Mongolia
Result

Bolshevik victory

  • Allied withdrawal
  • Bolsheviks regained Siberia
Belligerents
 Russian SFSR
 Far Eastern Republic
Mongolian communists

Allied Powers
Russia White movement
 Empire of Japan
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
 United States
 Canada
 Italy
Republic of China (1912–49) China
 United Kingdom
France France
Poland Poland

Mongolia
Commanders and leaders

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Frunze
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Vasily Blyukher
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Ivan Konev

Damdin Sükhbaatar 		Russia Alexander Kolchak
Russia Grigory Semyonov
Russia Ivan Kalmykov
Empire of Japan Yui Mitsue
United States William S. Graves
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
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Unknown Russia Unknown
Empire of Japan 5,000 dead from combat and disease
United States 48 killed
Canada 14 killed

Bolshevik victory

Allied Powers
Russia White movement
 Empire of Japan
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
 United States
 Canada
 Italy
Republic of China (1912–49) China
 United Kingdom
France France
Poland Poland


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