battle, interwar and Second World War

Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation

Name: Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation
Location: Greater Khingan, Soviet Union

Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation was a battle fought in 1945 at Greater Khingan, in what is now Soviet Union. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Greater Khingan. It was part of the Soviet–Japanese War. The recorded result: Soviet victory.

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Fought1945

WhereGreater Khingan, Soviet Union49.383N, 123.157E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeSoviet victory

BelligerentsSoviet Union; MongoliaagainstJapan; Manchukuo

Casualties and losses2,228 killedand4,314 killed

Part ofSoviet–Japanese WarSoviet invasion of Manchuria

Where it sits in the Soviet–Japanese War

6 placed engagements of the Soviet–Japanese War in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1945 (year precision) to 1945
Place	Greater Khingan, Soviet Union 49.383N, 123.157E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Strength	648,000 soldiers; 9,668 guns and mortars; 2,359 tanks and self-propelled guns; 369 rocket launchers; 1,324 aircraft	230,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses	2,228 killed	4,314 killed
Commanders	Rodion Malinovsky Jamiyangiin Lhagvasuren	Otozō Yamada

Placed at Greater Khingan; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Soviet invasion of Manchuria 1945, 141 km E
Battle of Nomonhan 1939, 370 km SW
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939, 383 km SW
Battle of Buyur Lake 1388, 404 km W
Siege of Changchun 1948, 629 km S

In the same war

Before: Soviet invasion of Manchuria 1945
After: Battle of Mutanchiang 1945
All 6 engagements of Soviet–Japanese War

Elsewhere in 1945

atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
Battle of Berlin Germany
Battle of Iwo Jima Japan
Battle of Okinawa Japan
Bombing of Dresden Germany

Khingan-Mukden Offensive Operation is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 48 in present-day Soviet Union.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q4497792, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Khingan–Mukden Operation, revision 1380420121, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.