Siberian intervention

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Siberian intervention
Part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Eastern Front
Allied commanders of the Siberian intervention. Front row: William S. Graves (3rd), Otani Kikuzo (4th) and Yui Mitsue (5th).
Date August 1918 – July 1920; October 1922 (Japanese withdrawal) Location Eastern Siberia, Russian Far East, Western Siberia, Outer Mongolia Result Soviet victory Territorial changes Allied withdrawal Soviets regained Siberia
Belligerents
Russian SFSR  Far Eastern Republic Mongolian People's Party	Russian State Allied Powers:  Japan Czechoslovakia  United States  Italy  United Kingdom  Canada China  France  Poland[1] Mongolia
Commanders and leaders
Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Mikhail Tukhachevsky Mikhail Frunze Vasily Blyukher Yakov Tryapitsyn  Aleksandr Samoilov Sergey Lazo  A. Krasnoshchyokov Damdin Sükhbaatar	Alexander Kolchak  Grigory Semyonov Mikhail Diterikhs Ivan Kalmykov † R. von Ungern-Sternberg  Otani Kikuzo Yui Mitsue Shiōden Nobutaka William S. Graves Robert L. Eichelberger Alfred Knox John Ward MP James H. Elmsley Bogd Khan
Strength
600,000	70,000 Japanese 50,000 Czechoslovaks 8,763 Americans 2,400 Italians 2,364 British 4,192 Canadian[2] 2,300 Chinese 1,400 French several thousands of Poles Total: ~ More than 140,000
Casualties and losses
7,791 698 killed/missing 2,189 died of disease 1,421 wounded 3,482 evacuated sick/frostbitten (Jan-June 1922 only)[3]	Unknown 5,000 dead from combat and disease 48 killed 33 killed[4] 19 killed[4]

The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the Entente powers to the Russian Maritime Provinces as part of a larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China to support White Russian forces and the Czechoslovak Legion against Soviet Russia and its allies during the Russian Civil War. The Imperial Japanese Army continued to occupy Siberia even after other Allied forces withdrew in 1920.