Russian and Mongolian film makers are to make a movie about the battles of Khalkhin Gol which took place in 1939. Russia’s ‘Lenfilm’ is working with Mongolian ‘Movie Distribution’ LLC in making the movie as a part of 80^th anniversary of historic battle. The movie shoot is expected to begin in Moscow on 13 September which is an important day – as it was the day on which the Khalkhin Gol peace agreement was signed.

The battles of Khalkhyn Gol were decisive engagements in the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts fought between the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939. As British historian Antony Beevor, in his history of World War II notes:  Khalkiyn Gol, had a decisive influence on Imperial Japanese military strategy: Tokyo realised that further attacks on the Soviet Union and Mongolia would be too costly; after Khalkyn Gol, Japan began looking at expansion southwards into East Asia in order to meet its raw material needs. This, of course, ultimately led to Pearl Harbour and the Pacific War.

The conflict took place in the east of Mongolia and was named after the river Khalkhyn Gol, which passes through the battlefield.