Leningrad Front

The Leningrad Front (Russian Ленинградский фронт ) was formed by decree of the Soviet High Command of the Red Army on 23 August 1941, the division of the Northern Front into the Leningrad and Karelian Front.

The front, the 8th, 23rd and 48th Army, and the Koporjer, southern and Sluzk Kolpiner - Operative group were assumed. On August 30, 1941, the Baltic Fleet was placed under the supreme command of the front. On 25 November 1942, the air formations of the front formed the 13th Air Army. The following attended the Leningrad Front: 4, 52, 55, 59, 42, 54, 67, 20, 21, 22 and 51, 1st, 2nd and 4th shock, 6th and 10th Guards Army, 3rd, 13th and 15th air army, and the army groups Neva and "sea".

The front had the task of preventing to cover access to Leningrad and the capture of the city by the enemy. The active defense by the armies of the front added the German forces to the south, and Finnish armies, who were advancing from the northwest, forth on Leningrad until the beginning of September 1941 heavy losses. Parts of the front are trimmed in the bridgehead of Oranienbaum, where they could hold on until the abolition of the Siege of Leningrad in 1944.

Since September 8, 1941, the armies of the Leningrad Front led the fight under the extremely difficult conditions of the blockade continues. The stubborn defense of the front, combined with counter-attacks, led in cooperation with the Volkhov Front and the Baltic Fleet to bleed the enemy and force them to transition to defense, making Hitler's plans were zunichtegemacht to conquer Lenin degree.

From June 1942 to May 1945 led Lieutenant-General, from June 1944 Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Alexandrovich Goworow the High Command.

In January 1943, succeeded to the armies of the Leningrad and Volkhov Front during the Second Ladoga battle to break through the blockade Lenin degree south Schlüsselburg and restore the land connection to the city.

In the Leningrad - Novgorod strategic offensive operation in January and February 1944, the Leningrad Front attacked in cooperation with the Volkhov, the 2nd Baltic Front and the Baltic Fleet, the German Army Group North south of Leningrad and Novgorod, and thus excluding them Leningrad finally out of the handle the blockade. During this operation, the entire Leningrad and part of the Kalinin region was liberated, and the Soviet troops invaded to Estonia before.

On 24 April 1944, the 3rd Baltic Front was created from the southern flank of the Leningrad Front. In June 1944, the Leningrad Front resulted in co-operation with the Baltic Fleet, the Ladoga and Onega flotilla the Vyborg - Petrozavodsk offensive operation by. The successful company in which the Volkhov Front was involved, of the departure of Finland from the war on Germany's side result.

A part of the forces of the Front took part in the Baltic operation and moved first of Narva with the general direction of Dorpat, Reval ago. Until 24 November they drove the Germans and their allies from Estonia. Thus ending the offensive operations of the Leningrad Front. Their armies occupied positions along the Soviet- Finnish border and the Baltic coast from Leningrad to Riga. On April 1, 1945, a part belonging to the Leningrad Front armies were disbanded and discharged the troops at the 2nd Baltic Front, to ensure the continuation of the blockade of the German Army Group Courland. In connection with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht, the Leningrad Front accepted the surrender of this grouping.

On 24 July 1945, the front was dissolved by order of the National Defence Commission of the USSR dated 9 July 1945 and went back into the Leningrad Military District.

Front command

Lieutenant General Marcian Mikhailovich Popov ( August-September 1941)
Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov ( September 1941 )
Army General Georgy Zhukov ( September and October 1941)
Major General I. I. Fedjuninski ( October 1941 )
Lieutenant General MS Chosin ( October 1941 - June 1942 )
Lieutenant General Leonid Alexandrovich Goworow (June 1942 - July 1945, from June 1944 Marshal of the Soviet Union)
Corps Commissioner PA Dibrova ( Member of the Military Council, August 1941 )
Corps Commissioner NN Klementew (Member of Militärtats; August and September 1941)
Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov ( Member of the Military Council, September 1941 - July 1945, from June 1944, Colonel General )
Colonel northwest Gorodetsky ( Chief of Staff, August-September 1941)
Lieutenant General MS Chosin ( Chief of Staff, September-October 1941)
Major General DN Gusev ( Chief of Staff, October 1941 - April 1944, from May 1942 Lieutenant General )
Colonel-General MM Popov ( chief of staff, April 1944 - July 1945 )

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