Topic summary
Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
China
Soviet Union
Xinjiang clique
White Russian forces- Torgut Mongols
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Ma Zhongying
- Zhang Peiyuan†
- Ma Hushan
- Ma Shih-ming
- Joseph Stalin
- General Volgin
- Ishaq Beg
- Sheng Shicai
- General Nikolay Bekteyev
- Colonel Proshkukarov
- New 36th Division: around 10,000 Chinese Muslim cavalry and foot soldiers
- 3,000 Han Chinese soldiers of the Ili Garrison
- 7,000 Soviet GPU and Red Army troops in 2 brigades, airplanes, tanks
- Several thousand White Russian soldiers
- Several thousand Mongol Torguts
- Heavy casualties, many injured
- Dozens of armored cars destroyed
The Soviet invasion of Xinjiang (simplified Chinese: 苏联入侵新疆; traditional Chinese: 蘇聯入侵新疆) was a military campaign of the Soviet Union in the Chinese northwestern region of Xinjiang in 1934. White Russian forces assisted the Soviet Red Army.