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On 11 August, the Soviet 16th Army commenced the ground invasion from northern Sakhalin of the southern portion of Sakhalin Island controlled by Japan. The Soviet advance was halted by the strenuous Japanese defense of the Karafuto Fortress defense line.
- 11-25 August 1945(2 weeks)
- Soviet victory
- Sakhalin Island
Jan 1, 1998 · Mariya Sevela gathers oral recollections from the people of Karafuto, a Japanese colony on the island of Sakhalin from 1905 until the arrival of the Soviet army forty years later. Mariya Sevela | Published in History Today Volume 48 Issue 1 January 1998. The island of Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk is a microcosm of Russo-Japanese relations.
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As per the Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1875, the entire island became territory of the Russian Empire, while Japan got in exchange the group of the Kuril Islands stretch-ing up to the Kamchatka Peninsula.
According to some of the 6,000 refugees already evacuated from the area, Soviet forces carried out fierce naval bombardment and artillery strikes against civilians awaiting evacuation as well as Japanese installations in Maoka, Shikuka on 10 August. Nearly 1,000 civilians were killed by machine-gun fire in this attack.
Dec 16, 2021 · Article 3 of the Yalta Agreement simply states, “The Kurile Islands shall be handed over to the Soviet Union.” Some authors argue that Russian losses to Japan which resulted from the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–1905 would then be restored “as compensation” by the Soviet Union’s taking of the Kuril Islands (Kravchenko 2010, 16).
From a Russian Penal Colony to Russo-Japanese Sakhalin/Karafuto: 1875–1905 From Russian North Sakhalin to Japanese Kita Karafuto, 1920–1925 From Japanese Karafuto to Soviet Sakhalin, 1905–1945
