Jyosyn landing

Zyosinsky landing (in the Soviet sources, the Odesin landing ) is a tactical naval landing , landed by the ships of the Soviet Pacific Fleet on August 18 - 19, 1945 during the Soviet-Japanese war .

After the victory of the Saysinsky landing force and the capture of this large naval base, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral I. S. Yumashev, set the task of capturing the remaining ports of the north-east coast of Korea by landing amphibious assault forces to disrupt the evacuation of the enemy troops to Japan . First, Yumashev ordered the port of Jyoshin ( Jap. 城 津 , cor., Sonjin , now Gimchek cor. 김책 ), located 50 kilometers south of Saysin (Chongjin), to occupy. The execution of the order was entrusted to the ships and personnel of the Southern Maritime Defense Area of ​​the fleet under the command of Lieutenant General S. I. Kabanov who were in Seysin.

Kabanov formed to execute the order a detachment of ships as part of the patrol ship "Metel" and 6 torpedo boats . The 77th battalion from the 13th Marine Brigade , a company of machine gunners, 6 guns , 6 mortars (900 men, the commander of the landing party, Major MD Karabanov) was appointed to the landing. The commander of the operation is Captain 1st Rank Studenichniki. On August 18, 1945, the detachment left Sacein, the transition took place in thick fog .

August 19, the landing was landed in Josin. According to the official history of the fleet, the landing force occupied the port and the city, forced the Japanese garrison to capitulate and seized a large number of military equipment and ships.

However, according to the memoirs of General S. I. Kabanov, the events were different:

“By the time our headquarters received new good maps of North Korea. Carefully studying the point of the upcoming disembarkation, I realized that the railway near it ended in a dead end. The Primorskoye Highway, connecting all the major cities of the peninsula, was 10 kilometers from this town. On the map, he was not even listed as a port. It is unlikely that Odetsin had any operational and tactical significance. ... .. By 18 o'clock the same day, the landing force landed without meeting resistance: the Japanese left the town in the morning. There was not a port there either, only a small harbor, protected by a pier, with several buildings on the shore. A dozen and a half fishing kungas hung around the pier. All "objects" are a fishermen village and a dead-end railway station. "

This information is confirmed by the information in the magazine “Sea Collection” (“the ships landed troops at the designated point without opposition from the enemy who left the city, like most of the inhabitants”), and also by the fact that Soviet military history works never indicated captured by this landing prisoners.