Kyakhta 1920: Forgotten Pages in the History of the Chinese Intervention

Abstract

The article is devoted to the forgotten and insufficiently known to the general scientific community details of the Chinese intervention of 1920, which took place on the eastern border of the Russian state in the distant Kyakhta. On the basis of archival data, the article describes the course and main events of the elevenmonth occupation of Russian territory by Chinese troops in the Troitskosavsky district, identifying the main characters in these events. Studying this problem will make it possible to better understand the course and main problems associated with the presence of Chinese foreign troops on Russian territory during the Civil War.