the Arctic 1925: Soviet-Japanese Peace Treaty
20 January 1925
20 Jan 1925
Claiming the Far North
1818–1875 Partitioning the North Pacific
1875–1939 Claiming the Far North
1939–1945 World War II in the Arctic
1945–pres The Arctic Transformed
Soviet-Japanese Peace Treaty
9 Oct 1882 First International Polar Year
5 Aug 1892 Opening up Greenland
13 Jun 1898 Klondike Gold Rush
7 Jun 1905 Norwegian Independence
6 Apr 1909 Race to the North Pole
6 Apr 1917 Great War and the Arctic
21 Aug 1918 Allied Intervention in Russia
6 Apr 1920 Far Eastern Republic
31 Oct 1921 Wrangel Island Fiasco
20 Jan 1925 Soviet-Japanese Peace Treaty
14 May 1926 Arctic Flights
12 Jul 1932 Erik the Red's Land
The Japanese withdrew from the Russian mainland in October 1922, allowing the Soviets to annex the Far Eastern Republic just weeks later. In December, Soviet Russia merged with its remaining satellite republics in Europe to form the Soviet Union. Formal peace with Japan took another two years, but in 1925 the Japanese agreed to return North Sakhalin, its remaining occupation in Russia, in exchange for economic concessions.