Gongota Agreement of 1920

The Gongota Agreement of 1920 (russian: Гонготское соглашение, ja, 緩衝国建設覚書 (lit. Memorandum of establishing

buffer state A buffer state is a country geographically lying between two rival or potentially hostile great powers. Its existence can sometimes be thought to prevent conflict between them. A buffer state is sometimes a mutually agreed upon area lying between t ...

)) was a milestone in the

Russian Civil War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution and the aftermath of World War I , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left: {{flatlist, *Soldiers ...

Transbaikal Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykalye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal in Far Eastern Russia. The steppe and ...

. The Agreement was finalized at Gongota railway station on July 15, 1920 between the

Far Eastern Republic The Far Eastern Republic ( rus, Дальневосто́чная Респу́блика, ДВР, r=Dalnevostochnaya Respublika, DVR, p=dəlʲnʲɪvɐˈstotɕnəjə rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə), sometimes called the Chita Republic, was a nominally indep ...

's delegation headed by

Alexander Krasnoshchyokov Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov (russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Краснощёков, real name – Avraam Moiseevich Krasnoshchyok, russian: Абра́м Моисе́евич Краснощёк, October 10, 1880 – ...

and Genrich Eiche and the Japanese Expeditionary Corps under

Yui Mitsue was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Biography Yui was born in Tosa Domain (present day Kōchi Prefecture) in what is now part of the city of Kōchi, where is father was a sam ...

. The Far Eastern Republic's demands were the evacuation of

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troops from the zone held by the Japanese forces and the end of hostilities between the Soviets and Japan. The process was not easy for the Far Eastern Republic authorities because the Japanese tried to postpone their evacuation from the region. Finally, the Japanese agreed stopping military actions against the FER troops and partisans. A no man's line was created west of Chita and it helped the Far Eastern Republic launch the final operation of taking Chita. {{Treaties of Japan History of Zabaykalsky Krai Russian Civil War Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War 1920 in Russia Treaties concluded in 1920 Treaties of the Empire of Japan Treaties of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Japan–Russia relations Japan–Soviet Union relations