Nikolayevsk incident
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The Nikolayevsk incident or Nikolaevsk incident (Russian: Николаевский инцидент) was a series of mass killings that took place in the region of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur during the Russian Civil War. The massacre and terrorism perpetrated by the Red Army under Yakov Tryapitsyn (a group of Russian Bolshevik-anarchist, Chinese and Korean guerrillas led by Ilya Park) killed thousands of Russians in Nikolaevsk and devastated the region.[1]
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Nikolayevsk incident | |
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Part of the Russian Civil War | |
Location | Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russian SFSR |
Coordinates | 53°08′N 140°44′E |
Date | 12 March 1920 – 3 June 1920 (1920-06-03) |
Target | Russian and Japanese civilians and POWs |
Attack type | Massacre |
Deaths | Thousands (half of the population) |
Perpetrators | Red Army Partisan (Red Bandit) detachment under Yakov Tryapitsyn |
In general, historians[1] agree that the event was a massacre in which there was "unprecedented and unprovoked brutality“ that killed and devastated many people. [2]
According to Bolshevik documents and trial verdicts, half of the population was killed in the massacre, of which the majority were Russians.[3][4] At the time of the massacre, Japan deliberately omitted facts about the thousands of Russians slaughtered by the Red Army and exaggerated the number of Japanese killed. As a result, the Nikolayevsk Massacre is often mistakenly perceived as a 'massacre against the Japanese'.[5]