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October 8, 1973	Record of Soviet-Japanese Talks, 8 October 1973 Brezhnev and Tanaka discuss Soviet-Japan relations since World War II.
June 21, 1992	Assessment of the General Staff of the Navy on Russo-Japanese relations and the problems of territorial delimitation between Russia and Japan This document highlights the Russian military’s concerns about the potential of losing the Southern Kurils to the Japanese. The document stresses that Japan still sees Russia as its most probable enemy in the Far East, and has plans to capture the islands in wartime. Losing these islands would present formidable obstacles to the Soviet Union because the Japanese and their American allies would have direct and unimpeded access to the Sea of Okhotsk, while the Russians would be prevented from conducting air attacks against U.S. aircraft carrier force east of the Tsugaru Strait. The document also provides statistics on Soviet-US submarine collisions and Japanese violations of Soviet/Russian territorial waters.
January 9, 1991	Conversation between Aleksandr Yakovlev and Kumagai Hiroshi In this conversation Ozawa Ichiro's envoy Kumagai Hiroshi outlines a potential islands-for-cash deal, whereby the Soviet Union surrenders the "northern territories" to Japan in return for Japanese credits and investments up to the amount of 26 billion USD.
August 23, 1945	Cable from Aleksandr Vasilevsky [?] to Stalin Report on the surrender of Japanese forces on the Kurile Islands.
August 23, 1945	Cable from Vyacheslav Molotov to Soviet Ambassador in the United States Drafted response from Stalin to Truman regarding Hokkaido and Kurile Islands.
August 22, 1945	Order by Aleksandr Vasilevsky to Nikolai Kuznetsov and Ivan Yumashev Orders for preparations for a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands. Operations are not to begin "until special instructions from the Headquarters."
August 21, 1945	Cable from Nikolai Kuznetsov to Aleksandr Vasilevsky Information related to a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
August 21, 1945	Order by Aleksandr Vasilevsky to Aleksandr Novikov Orders for preparations for a planned invasion of the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands.
August 20, 1945	Order by Aleksei Antonov to Aleksandr Vasilevsky Orders include preparation for the invasion of the island of Hokkaido and the southern Kurile Islands, but are to "begin... only after special instruction by Stalin."
August 20, 1945	Cable from Aleksandr Vasilevsky to Stalin Vasilevsky reports on the progress of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the surrender of Japanese forces.