Northern Front (Soviet Union)

The Northern Front (Russian Северный фронт ) was a military formation of the Red Army during the Second World War. The front was formed after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 24, 1941 from the Leningrad Military District and lasted until August 23, 1941 as it was divided into the Karelian Front and Leningrad Front. Their main job was to defend the Kola Peninsula and the North Sea coast, as well as the area north of the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. To this end, the Supreme Command of the front 7, 14 and 23 army and a number of smaller units were subordinated. Likewise, the front were under an air army, and from 28 June 1941, the Baltic Fleet.

On August 19, 1941, the 8th and 48th Army of the North Western Front were placed under the supreme command of the northern front. From June 25 to 29 led the Flyers associations the front, in cooperation with the Seefliegerkräften the North and the Baltic Fleet attacks on enemy air bases in Finland and northern Norway.

The front was the advance of the German and Finnish troops who had gone on the offensive on June 29 in the northern front, west of Liza, 90 kilometers west Kandalakschi, west Uchti, at Rogo Lake, Lake Onega, the Svir, and on stop the Karelian Isthmus on the boundary line of 1939.

On the orders of Soviet High Command of the front was entrusted with the defense of Leningrad on 10 July, where she was supported by the Luschsker Operational Group under Lieutenant General KP Pjadschew, the air formations of the northern front, the Baltic and the North fleets, as well as by the 7th Flak Corps. The stubborn defense at the level of Luschsker line of defense could stop the advance of German troops for nearly a month on Leningrad.

With command of 23 August 1941 the Soviet High Command ordered the division of the front in the Leningrad and Karelian Front, which was completed on 26 August.

High Command

  • Lieutenant General Marcian Mikhailovich Popov (June - August 1941)
  • Corps Commissioner NN Kljementew ( Leonid Alexandrovich Goworow, June-August 1941)
  • Major General DN Nikishev ( Chief of Staff, June-August 1941)
  • Colonel N.W. Gorodezkij ( Chief of Staff, August 1941)

Swell

  • Glantz, Stumbling Colossus, 1998, Appendix A
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