Nikolayevsk incident

Nikolayevsk incident
Nikolayevsk incident
Part of the Russian Civil War
	The ruins of Nikolayevsk after the massacre
Location	Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russian SFSR
Coordinates	53°08′N 140°44′E / 53.133°N 140.733°E
Date	12 March 1920 – 3 June 1920
Target	Russian and Japanese civilians and POWs
Attack type	Massacre
Deaths	Thousands (half of the population)
Perpetrators	Red Army Partisan (Red Bandit) detachment under Yakov Tryapitsyn

The Nikolayevsk incident or Nikolaevsk incident (Russian: Николаевский инцидент) was a series of mass killings that took place in the region of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur during the Russian Civil War. The massacre and terrorism perpetrated by the Red Army under Yakov Tryapitsyn (a group of Russian Bolshevik-anarchist, Chinese and Korean guerrillas led by Ilya Park) killed thousands of Russians in Nikolaevsk and devastated the region.^[1]

In general, historians^[1] agree that the event was a massacre in which there was "unprecedented and unprovoked brutality“ that killed and devastated many people. ^[2]

According to Bolshevik documents and trial verdicts, half of the population was killed in the massacre, of which the majority were Russians.^[3]^[4] At the time of the massacre, Japan deliberately omitted facts about the thousands of Russians slaughtered by the Red Army and exaggerated the number of Japanese killed. As a result, the Nikolayevsk Massacre is often mistakenly perceived as a 'massacre against the Japanese'.^[5]

^ ^a ^b The following papers acknowledge that the Red Army partisan detachment under Yakov Tryapitsyn committed massacres and war crimes against civilians: (Fisher & Varneck 1935, p. 265~328); (Stephan 1994, p. 144~146); (Hackemer 1998, p. 119, 122~124); (Булдаков 2013, p. 117); (Дацышен 2014, p. 194); (Grishachev & Datsyshen 2019, p. 145~146); (Тепляков 2013, p. 135–142); (Тепляков 2015, p. 718-731); (Тепляков 2017, p. 451-452); (Тепляков 2018, p. 47–48); (Азаренков 2019, p. 181-182); (Кривенький, Малафеева & Фуфыгин 2018, p. 128); (Кривенький & Фуфыгин 2020, p. 125–131); (Sablin & Sukhan 2018, p. 77); (Li 2016, p. 49); (Linkhoeva 2018, p. 31); (Stone 1995, p. 73–75).
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[:8-1] The following papers acknowledge that the Red Army partisan detachment under Yakov Tryapitsyn committed massacres and war crimes against civilians: (Fisher & Varneck 1935, p. 265~328); (Stephan 1994, p. 144~146); (Hackemer 1998, p. 119, 122~124); (Булдаков 2013, p. 117); (Дацышен 2014, p. 194); (Grishachev & Datsyshen 2019, p. 145~146); (Тепляков 2013, p. 135–142); (Тепляков 2015, p. 718-731); (Тепляков 2017, p. 451-452); (Тепляков 2018, p. 47–48); (Азаренков 2019, p. 181-182); (Кривенький, Малафеева & Фуфыгин 2018, p. 128); (Кривенький & Фуфыгин 2020, p. 125–131); (Sablin & Sukhan 2018, p. 77); (Li 2016, p. 49); (Linkhoeva 2018, p. 31); (Stone 1995, p. 73–75).

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