Zaozernaia Hill

It was proposed that when Zaozernaia Hill was taken, all troops were to be pulled back behind the frontier immediately afterward. The directive required that Zaozernaia Hill remain in our hands no matter what. We will not give further detailed consideration to the subsequent course of military operations for Zaozernaia and Bezymiannaia hills, which lasted from August 6 to August 11 and ended with the complete routing of the Japanese invaders.

1971 fall, M. V. Zakharov, “On the Eve of World War II (May 1938 - September 1939)”, in Soviet Studies in History, volume X, number 2, White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 128–129

Today we are exactly informed that the question of the robbery of Zaozernaia Hill (Changkufeng), that is, the whole question of the events in the Lake Khasan region, was actually not decided in Tokyo at all, but in another place, somewhere in Europe, probably in Berlin.

1991, Viacheslav Molotov, “Viacheslav Molotov’s Speech Reflects Return to Revolutionary Rhetoric Capitalist Encirclement and Imminent Imperialist War. 8 November 1938”, in Alex G. Cummins, editor, Documents of Soviet History, volume 8 (Road to War, 1938-1940), Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 118

Larger-than-life figures of Soviet soldiers, holding rifles or red banners[,] were depicted standing on top of a mountain, while the Japanese with frightened faces and transformed into a herd of non-human creatures were scattered at its bottom. The mountain could be interpreted literally as Zaozernaia Hill near Lake Khasan, where a military confrontation had taken place, or figuratively, indicated the triumph of the Soviet state over Japan.

2008, Yulia Mikhailova, “Japan’s Place in Russian and Soviet National Identity: From Port Arthur to Khalkhin-gol”, in Yulia Mikhailova, M. William Steele, editors, Japan and Russia: Three Centuries of Mutual Images, Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 84

Japanese troops succeeded in capturing the main hills called Zaozernaia (Chinese name: Changkufeng) and Bezymiannaia (Chinese name: Shachaofeng). […] Units of the 40th Division of the Red Army came out to the Eastern slopes of the Zaozernaia Hill. […] M[ikhail] Avilov’s painting Eleven Frontier Guards on the Zaozernaia Hill is dedicated to events in the Far East.

2020, “The History of Artillery from 1918 up to June 1941”, in Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, Saint Petersburg, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2026