Second Russo-Japanese War

### Concurrent

Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese invasion of Manchuria, German Civil War, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of Guadalcanal

## Combatants

### Allied Combatants

Soviet UnionSupported by:

United States of America

United Kingdom

China

## Commanders and Leaders

### Allied Commanders and leaders

Aram KomulakovGeorgy Zhukov

Boris Shaposhnikov

Aleksandr Vasilevsky

Semyon Timoshenko

Aleksei Antonov

Ivan Konev

Ivan Bagramyan

Konstantin Rokossovsky

Vasily Chuikov

Nikita Khrushchev

Kostya Danilov

Yuri Ilyin

Yuri Belov

Oleg Sidorenko

Lev Filipchenko

Vanya Shvernik

Alexandra Kendrick

Sashenka Tikhonova

Konstantin Bandanov

### Enemy Commanders and leaders

HirohitoHideki Tōjō

Otozō Yamada

Yoshijirō Umezu

Korechika Anami

Yasuhiko Asaka

Shunroku Hata

Seishirō Itagaki

Kotohito Kan'in

Iwane Matsui

Toshizō Nishio

Yasuji Okamura

Hajime Sugiyama

## Strength

### Allied Forces

Soviet Union:* Northern Front

7th Army

8th Army

48th Army

52nd Army

54th Army

55th Army

Northwestern Front

11th Army

27th Army

34th Army

Western Front

3rd Army

10th Army

13th Army

16th Army

19th Army

20th Army

22nd Army

24th Army

28th Army

40th Army

50th Army

Southwestern Front

5th Army

6th Army

12th Army

21st Army

26th Army

37th Army

Southern Front

9th Army

18th Army

Coastal Army

## Casualties

### Allied

Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, thousands of Russian civilians

### Enemy

850,000 killed, missing or wounded

The **Soviet-Japanese War** (Russian: Российская война в Японии, or "Russian War on Japan"), in the normal timeline, was an armed conflict in 1945, towards the end of the Second World War. In the alternate universe presented in the TACITUS saga, the Soviet-Japanese War, also known as the **Second Russo-Japanese War**(Russian: Вступление Советского Союза в войну против Японии, English: Soviet Union entry into war against Japan), was an armed conflict between the Soviet Union and the Imperial Japanese Empire during World War II, which began in 1939 and ended on May 25, of 1945.

## History

### Background

*Main article*: December 7, 1941 Terrorist Attacks

Japan had invaded China, beginning the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. The Soviet Union, United States, and England formed a coalition against Japan, aiming to support the Chinese war effort.

The USSR, having built an orbital satellite weapon known as Brown Bear, sought to cripple the Japanese by attacking its navy with Brown Bear (a sort of reversal of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the normal timeline). The USSR launched a surprise attack against Japan, aiming to decimate the Navy, but only severely crippled the Imperial Japanese Air Force, since most of the Japanese Navy was away supporting the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. Japan responded by declaring war on the USSR.

Then the December 7, 1941 Terrorist Attacks happened, and following this, the Imperial Japanese Empire invaded the USSR, bringing both the United States and the USSR into World War II.

## Notable battles

* Battle of Kamchatka
* Siege of Leningrad
* Battle of Moscow
* Battle of St. Petersburg
* Battle of Rostov (1941)
* Winter Campaign of 1941-42
* Battle of Voronezh
* Battle of Stalingrad
* Battle of Kursk
* Battle of Narva (1944)

## Gallery

Yuri Belov fighting Japanese soldiers in StalingradYuri Belov fighting against Imperial Japanese soldiers during the Battle of Stalingrad