Battle of Tsushima (Empire of Japan vs Russian Empire)

The Battle of Tsushima (Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known as the Battle of Tsushima Strait and the Naval Battle of the Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, Nihonkai-Kaisen) in Japan, was a major naval battle fought between Russia and Japan during the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait between Korea and southern Japan. In this battle the Japanese fleet hailed from Busan under Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed two-thirds of the Russian fleet hailed from Baltic Sea, under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had traveled over 18,000 nautical miles (33,000 km) to reach the Far East.