as well as the fortress of Chnyrra and any weapons, artillery, ammunition, medical supplies, and provisions that could not be secured by the Red Army. Following the retreating army along the banks of the Amur River, on 3 June 1920, Tryapitsin left with his staff. Upon learning of the massacre, the Japanese government lodged a protest against the Bolshevik government in Moscow, demanding compensation. Tryapitsin had already lost much of his favor with the Central Committee in Moscow due to his frequent railings against Soviet policy and criticism of the central government, and in response to the Japanese demands, Tryapitsin, along with his entire Staff and regimental commanders, were arrested in the town of Kerbi in Primorsky on the orders of the Soviet government on 7 July. I.T. Andreev, a member of the Bolshevik-aligned Central Committee of the Sakhalin Region and a former White Army officer, presided over a brief improvised trial in which Tryapitsin, his staff, regimental commanders, and the Chief of Staff of the Okhotsk Front, Nina Lebedeva, 32 in total, were condemned to death and subsequently shot on 9 July. Even so, the Japanese government felt that this was not sufficient, and used the incident as an excuse to occupy the northern half of Sakhalin island, and to delay diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1925. References Hara, Teruyuki. Niko Jiken no Shomondai (Problems in the Incident at Nikolaevsk-na-Amure) // Roshiashi Kekyuu, 1975, No. 23. Gutman, Anatoly. Ella Lury Wiswell (trans.); Richard A. Pierce (ed.) The Destruction of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, An Episode in the Russian Civil War in the Far East, 1920. Limestone Press (1993). White, John Albert. The Siberian Intervention. Princeton University Press (1950) 1897 births 1920 deaths People from Vladimir Governorate Russian revolutionaries Russian communists Anarcho-communists Russian military personnel of World War I Recipients of the Cross of St. George People of the Russian Civil War Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War Russian mass murderers Deaths by firearm in Russia Executed military personnel Executed Russian people Executed Soviet people from Russia