Free City Incident

Free City Incident
Part of the Russian Civil War and the Korean Independence Movement
DateJune 28, 1921
Location
Result

Soviet and Far-Eastern Republic Victory

  • Korean Independence Corps disarmed and dissolved.
  • Several Korean militant groups retreated to Manchuria
  • Several resistance groups incorporated into the Red Army.
Belligerents

Far Eastern Republic (Soviet Russia) Korean Revolutionary Military Government Council

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea

Commanders and leaders
Nestor Kalandarishvili
Oh Ha-muk
Hong Beom-do
Park Il-ya
Strength

2nd Corps: 10,000

  • 29th Regiment of the Free City Guards

Korean Revolutionary Army

  • Freedom Battalion

Korean Independence Corps: 3,500

Casualties and losses
See Aftermath
An orthographic projection of the Far Eastern Republic, with maximum extension from 1920 in both green and extension from 1920 to 1922 in dark green.

The Svobodny Incident (Korean자유시 참변; Hanja自由市慘變), also known as the Jayu City Incident (자유시 사기변; 自由市事庋變) and the Heukha Incident (흑하사변; 黑河事變), occurred on June 28, 1921, in Svobodny (Russian for "free") in the Far East Republic (currently Amur Oblast, Russia) where the Korean exiled independence fighters who refused to accept command of the Red Army were surrounded and suppressed.


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