page_title: 1st Red Banner Army
section_title: Soviet invasion of Manchuria
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Red Banner Army / Soviet invasion of Manchuria
caption_attribution_description: English: Soviet 1st Far Eastern Front Operations, 9-20 August 1945
context_page_description: The 1st Red Banner Army was a Red Army field army of World War II that served in the Soviet Far East.
context_section_description: Until the war's end in 1945, the 1st Red Banner Army covered some of the long far eastern borders of the Soviet Union.  In August 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Soviet Far East Front attacked into Japanese-occupied Manchuria, as part of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, led by Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Vasilevsky. The area the Army was to operate through was mountainous, rugged taiga, and it was specifically tailored to the conditions it would face, in common with the other formations earmarked for the operation. The Army's forces at the beginning of the offensive included 26th and 59th Rifle Corps, 6 rifle divisions, 3 tank brigades (75th, 77th, 257th), 3 SP regiments, 6 SP battalions, 1 heavy tank/SP gun regiment, 5 artillery brigades, and 410 tanks/SP guns and 1,413 guns/mortars. The 6th and 112th Fortified Regions also formed part of the Army. The First Army's attack was aimed at northern Manchukuo.
caption: 1st Far Eastern Front operations, 9–20 August 1945
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