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Sovetskaya Gavin (Sovetskaya Gavan'; 140.27E 48.97N) is a Russian port on the southern approaches to the Strait of Tartary between Russia and Sakhalin. The railway from Komsomolsk to Sovetskaya Gavin was apparently not completed until 1945.
Japanese contingency
plans for an invasion of Siberia
called for Sovetsikaya Gavin to be one of the first landing sites for
Japanese invasion forces.
References
Japanese
Monograph 106 (1952-1-24; accessed 2015-12-28)
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