Soviet invasion of Xinjiang

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German and Russian. (April 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,126 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Sowjetische Invasion in Xinjiang]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Sowjetische Invasion in Xinjiang}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
Part of the Kumul Rebellion
Date January–April 1934 Location Xinjiang Result Ceasefire Territorial changes Xinjiang divided in two
Belligerents
China	Soviet Union Xinjiang clique White Russian forces Torgut Mongols
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek Ma Zhongying Zhang Peiyuan † Ma Hushan Ma Shih-ming	Joseph Stalin General Volgin Ishaq Beg Sheng Shicai General Nikolay Bekteyev Colonel Proshkukarov
Strength
New 36th Division: around 10,000 Chinese Muslim cavalry and foot soldiers 3,000 Han Chinese soldiers of the Ili Garrison[1]	7,000 Soviet GPU and Red Army troops in 2 brigades, airplanes, tanks[2] Several thousand White Russian soldiers Several thousand Mongol Torguts
Casualties and losses
Heavy casualties, many civilians injured and killed	Heavy casualties, many injured Dozens of armored cars destroyed

The Soviet invasion of Xinjiang (simplified Chinese: 苏联入侵新疆; traditional Chinese: 蘇聯入侵新疆) was a military campaign of the Soviet Union in the Chinese northwestern region of Xinjiang in 1934. White Russian forces assisted the Soviet Red Army.^{[3][self-published source]}