Wars
Russo-Japanese War
Defeat · Treaty of Portsmouth
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- 1904–1905
The struggle for influence in Korea and Manchuria ended in Russian military defeats on land and at sea. In the negotiations Russia ceded southern Sakhalin and several rights in Manchuria, but avoided paying an indemnity.
- Period
- 1904–1905
- Belligerents
- The Russian Empire — the Japanese Empire
- Outcome
- Russian defeat; recognition of Japan's predominant interests in Korea, and territorial and lease concessions
- Settlement
- Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905