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Seishin Operation

BelligerentsSoviet UnionJapanCommanders and leadersIvan Yumashev
Vasily Trushin Sokichi Nishiwaki
Hiroshi TakumiUnits involved

Soviet Pacific Fleet

  • 140th Reconnaissance Detachment
  • 13th Marine Brigade
  • 355th Marine Battalion
  • 62nd Machine Gun Battalion

Far Eastern Front

  • 335th Rifle Division
    • 205th Rifle Regiment
    • 390th Machine Gun Battalion
  • 393rd Rifle Division

Ranam-guyok Military District

  • 19th Division
    • 73rd Infantry Regiment
    • 76th Infantry Regiment
    • 19th Reconnaissance Regiment
  • Ranam Infantry School Battalion

3rd Army

Local police forceStrength Over 6,500 men 4,000–5,700 menCasualties and losses 230–300 killed and missing 227 killed

The Seishin Operation (Russian: Сэйсинская операция, romanized: Seysinskaya operatsiya, Korean: 청진 상륙 작전), also called Chongjin Landing Operation, was an amphibious assault on northern Korea (present day North Korea) over 490 miles from Pyongyang between 13–16 August 1945, carried out by the forces of the Soviet Northern Pacific Flotilla of the Pacific Fleet during the Soviet–Japanese War at the end of World War II.

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