Which general signed the 1945 Japanese surrender document for the Soviet Union?

Kuzma Derevyanko signed the 1945 Japanese surrender document for the Soviet Union.

Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko signed aboard USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, after representatives of the United States, China, and the United Kingdom. He represented the Soviet Union during the ceremony that formalized Japan’s capitulation.

The Soviet Union had declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, and Soviet forces invaded Japanese positions in Manchuria the following day. That campaign, known as the Soviet–Japanese War, rapidly changed the strategic situation in northeast Asia. Derevyanko’s participation therefore reflected the Soviet Union’s late but important entry into the war against Japan.

After the ceremony, Derevyanko became associated with the Soviet occupation of parts of Korea. He later reported on the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima to Soviet leaders. His signature is less familiar than those of MacArthur or Nimitz, but it appears among the nine Allied signatures on the surrender document.