Seishin Operation

Seishin Operation
	Part of the Soviet–Japanese War of World War II
	; Soviet troops in Korea, 15 August 1945
Date	13–17 August 1945
Location	Chongjin, northern Korea
Result	Soviet victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Yumashev; Vasily Trushin	Sokichi Nishiwaki; Hiroshi Takumi
Units 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 79th Division 289th Infantry Regiment; 79th Cavalry Regiment; ; Local police force
Strength
over 6,500 men	4,000–5,700 men
Casualties and losses
230–300 killed and missing	227 killed

The Seishin Operation (Russian: Сэйсинская операция, Korean: 청진 상륙 작전), also called Chongjin Landing Operation, was an amphibious assault on northern Korea between 13–17 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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