In the Battle of the Storm in August 1945, the main battle continued from August 9 to August 16, when the Japanese Kwantung Army issued Order No. 106 of the Kwantung Army, the entire Kwantung Army surrendered, the main battle was carried out for a week, the main force of the Kwantung Army surrendered, and only sporadically lost contact troops were still resisting, such as the Dongning Fortress, which had lost contact with the troops, still resisting.
Among them, the 1st Front of the Kwantung Army surrendered its weapons to the Soviet army at the front line of Sun Wu, Mudanjiang, and Boli in Heilongjiang. In the Far East Campaign, the 1st Front of the Kwantung Army fought the most fiercely, and also lost the most Japanese troops. On August 20, the Japanese army, which surrendered to the Soviet Union, admitted that the main participant in the battle was the Japanese 5th Army, with a loss of 25,000 men.
The 3rd Army lost 15,000 men, while the Japanese 1st Front lost more than 40,000 men. Later, in March 1952, Japan counted 8,929 killed in battle with the 5th Army and 4,547 in battle with the 3rd Army. No, missing, lost contact person. The Soviets were the 1st Far Eastern Front, with 17,225 combat casualties, of which 3,254 were killed, 104 were missing, and 13,867 were wounded.
The Japanese 4th Army in Harbin surrendered intact, and on August 20, the vanguard tank unit of the Soviet Red Banner 1st Army entered Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province.
The Japanese 3rd Front was fully surrendered, and they were deployed in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Changtu, Changchun, Siping, Gongzhuling and other places, without participating in the battle. On August 19, the Soviet army landed in Shenyang by plane, on August 19, the Soviet advance team landed at Changchun Airport, and at 11:00 p.m. on August 20, 1,000 people from the advance team of the 5th Guards Tank Army entered Shenyang.
On August 25, the main Soviet army entered Changchun, On August 26, it entered Siping, and on August 28, it entered Gongzhuling. The 3rd Front of the Kwantung Army basically did not participate in the battle, and the only real battle was the 107th Division, because this division was not in Liaoning and Jilin, it was on the border of Heilongjiang, and it was only transferred to the 3rd Front on August 10, this division later lost contact and had been engaged with the Soviets, and on August 29, it received orders to surrender at Daxing'anling, in this direction, the Soviet Transbaikal Front, with 5862 casualties.
Finally, the Soviets captured the Kwantung Army and counted 609,000 Japanese, 10,000 Koreans, 700 Northeasterners, 16,000 Kannai, and 3,600 Mongols. In the end, 520,000 Japanese prisoners were taken to Soviet labor camps, and more than 70,000 prisoners of the Kwantung Army were released on the spot.
Throughout the campaign, the Soviet and Soviet navies killed 9,780, 1,340 non-combat deaths, 911 missing, 19,562 war wounded, and 4,863 sick. Among them, the combat casualties were 30,253, and the non-combat casualties were 6,203, for a total of 36,456.
Completely destroyed 78 tanks and self-propelled guns, 62 aircraft, 232 artillery pieces, more than 11,000 pieces of light weapons. In 1946-1950, the Soviet Union began to repatriate 470,000 Japanese prisoners of war, and 52,700 Japanese soldiers died in Soviet labor camps.
The Soviet list records that 45,816 Japanese prisoners died in Soviet labor camps, and as of November 2016, more than 21,600 of them had been found and handed over.