ABSTRACT
The Far Eastern theater of military operations (Manchuria) encompasses a huge area of more than 579,150 square miles (1.5 million square kilometers) and is characterized by wildly differing geographical and climatic conditions.1 Manchuria, whose circumference extends a total of 3,188 miles (5,130 kilometers), is bounded on the south by Korea, the Liaotung Gulf, and China, on the east and north by the Russian Federation’s (then the Soviet Union’s) Far Eastern province and Siberia, and on the west by Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Ultimately, the Trans-Baikal Front deployed in a 1,429-mile (2,300-kilometer) operational sector in the west, the 2d Far Eastern Front in a 1,324-mile (2,130-kilometer) sector in the north, and the 1st Far Eastern Front in a 435-mile (700-kilometer) sector in the east.
