Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te 9 o Akuhata, ka tīmata te Soviet Union i te
te whakaekenga a Japan o Manchuria (Manchukuo) me te whakaekenga e toru ki te ope ope a Kwantung. I te whakaeke i te kaha o nga hoia Hapanihi i te rawhiti o Manchuria mai i te rohe i waenga o Vladivostok me Khabarovsk, ko te 1st Far Eastern Front i honoa ki te Transbaikal Front a Marshal Rodion Malinovsky i te hauauru i roto i te angitu angitu i tutuki me te huna me te ohorere i te wa i uru mai ai te 2nd Far Eastern Front a Army General Maxim Purkayev mai i te raki. I te wa ano, ko nga waahanga o te ope taua 25 o te Runga i whawhai ki Korea Hapanihi me te tautoko o te Naval Infantry i tukuna e te Pacific Ocean Fleet.