Soviet Losses During Operations against Japan

(August 9 - September 4, 1945)

Updated July 23, 2006
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    Fronts Total
    Transbaikal 2nd Far Eastern 1st Far Eastern
Losses in manpower
Killed Officers 102 153 426 681
Sergeants 734 387 1022 2143
Privates 701 1540 1806 4047
Total 1537 2080 3254 6871
Wounded Officers 190 270 814 1274
Sergeants 2054 834 3816 6704
Privates 1815 2464 9237 13516
Total 4059 3568 13867 21494
Missed Officers 29 21 35 85
Sergeants 137 89 47 273
Privates 100 317 22 439
Total 266 427 104 797
TOTAL 5862 6075 17225 29162
Losses in horsepower
Killed 4 133 260 397
Perished 62 - - 62
Wounded 25 11 - 36
TOTAL 91 144 260 495
Losses of equipment
Airplanes 10 15 53 78
Tanks 3 20 31 54
Tractors - 7 - 7
Automobiles - 26 - 26
Guns - 9 17 26
Self-propelled guns 3 3 - 6
Mortars - 159 - 159
Light & Heavy Machine-guns - 436 - 436
Rifles - 1130 - 1130

PPSh

(rem. AMVAS-submachine-guns)

- 91 - 91
Antitank rifles - 116 - 116
Submachineguns - 859 - 859

Rem. - United reference about losses of the Soviet troops was composed based on Fronts' losses reports. these figures can be in disagreement with later research.

Original can be found here

Literature:
  1. "Sovetsko-Yaponskaya vojna 1945 goda: istoriya voyenno-politicheskogo protivoborstva dvuh derzhav v 30-40-t gody", Russkiy Archiv. Velikaya Otechestvennaya, vol. 18-7(2), Terra, Moscow, 2000, p 134
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