Soviet Losses in the Khalkhin-Gol Battle

December 12, 2003

The 11th Tank Brigade's Losses from July 03 until August 05, 1939

	Type	Tanks		Crews
	Type	Burnt	Damaged	Killed	Wounded	Missed
1st Tank Battalion	BT-5	30	21	73	33	3
2nd Tank Battalion	BT-5	16	27	21	21	6
3rd Tank Battalion	BT-5	20	17	54	15	12
Recon company	BT-5/7	2/-	2/2	10	5	-
Headquarters	BT-5	-	1	1	1	-
Supply Company	KhT-26 (OT-26)	1	8	3	1	-
Total		69	69	162	76	21

The 11th Tank Brigade's Losses from August 20 until August 30, 1939

Date	Tanks					Crews
Date	Participated in combat	Burnt	Damaged	Returned*	Repaired	Killed	Wounded
Aug., 20	154	9	17	20	-	10	29
Aug., 21	143	1	11	12	-	2	20
Aug., 22	130	3	21	9	11	45	61
Aug., 23	116	2	9	12	6	2	32
Aug., 24	106	2	6	11	1	14	28
Aug., 25	88	60	1	12	3	6	3
Aug., 26	60	1	12	3	6	3	24
Aug., 27	59	1	5	1	5	3	13
Aug., 28	66	1	5	7	-	1	11
Aug., 29	65	-	4	5	1	3	6
Aug., 30	38	1	2	4	-	3	5
Total		22	102	89	37	95	254

* - Tanks didn't reach the battlefield due to different breakdowns Total losses of the 11th Tank Brigade: BT-7 - 38, BT-5 -76, T-37 - 4, KhT-26 - 7, FAI - 7

The 6th Tank Brigade's Losses from August 21 until September 01, 1939

Date	Tanks
Date	Participated in combat	Burnt	Damaged	Returned*	Repaired
Aug., 21	153	4	4	-	2
Aug., 22	163	11	10	-	2
Aug., 23	99	-	6	-	-
Aug., 24	141	3	8	-	13
Aug., 25	143	3	5	-	5
Aug., 26	139	1	11	-	6
Aug., 27	85	-	-	-	8
Aug., 28	91	-	3	1	4
Aug., 29	53	-	4	-	5
Aug., 30	46	-	3	-	4
Sep.,01	40	-	2	-	-
Total		22	56	1	49

The 9th Armored Brigade's Losses from August 20 until August 30, 1939

Date	Participated in combat	Burnt	Damaged	Repaired
Aug., 20	56	-	-	-
Aug., 21	55	1	-	-
Aug., 22	55	-	2	2
Aug., 23	55	-	2	2
Aug., 24	55	1	-	-
Aug., 25	54	-	-	-
Aug., 26	54	1	-	-
Aug., 27	53	-	2	2
Aug., 28	53	-	3	3
Aug., 29	53	-	-	-
Aug., 30	53	-	-	-
Total		3	9	9

According to [1] overall Soviet losses are:

9703 killed, missed and died of wounds;
15952 wounded
198 - 7.62mm Automatic Rifles AVS-36
1192 - 7.62mm Rifles (631 - irretrievably)
225 - "Maxim" Machine-guns (38 - irretrievably)
2264 - "DP" Machine-guns (308 - irretrievably)
1 - "DK" 12.7 mm Machine-gun (1- irretrievably)
8 - 82mm mortars (8 - irretrievably)
20 - 45mm Anti-Tank guns (8 - irretrievably)
14 - 76mm Regimental Guns (7 - irretrievably)
11 - 76mm Field Guns M1902/30 (2- irretrievably)
4 - 107mm Field Guns M1910/30
31 - 122mm howitzers M1910/30 (5- irretrievably)
6 - 152mm Howitzers
496 - Trucks (118- irretrievably)
99 - Special cars (17 - irretrievably)
32 - Cars
40 - Tractors (4 - irretrievably)
25 - Motorcycles (4- irretrievably)

Tank losses (totally destroyed and need thorough repairs):

BT-7 -30 line tanks + 27 BT-7RT
BT-7A - 2
BT-5 - 127 line tanks+ 30 BT-5RT
T-26 - 8 KhT-26 (OT-26) - 10
KhT-130 (OT-130) - 2
T-37 - 17
BA-3 - 8
BA-6 - 44
BA-10 - 41
FAI - 21
BA-20 - 19
T-20 "Komsomolets" prime-movers - 9
SU-12 SP guns - 2

Much tanks had been repaired during combat, but their amount can hardly be estimated.

Mongolian losses - 556 men (including 165 killed)

Reasons of tank losses:

Anti-Tank Artillery fire- 75-80%
Fire-bomb (later called "Molotov cocktail") throwers - 5-10%
Field artillery fire - 15-20%
Aviation - 2-3%
Mines and hand-grenades - 2 -3%

Japan losses: 8632 killed 9087 wounded

Literature

M. Kolomiets. "Boi u reki Khalkhin-Gol" Frontovaya Illyustratsia, No 2, 2002