The Leningrad Front was immediately given the task of containing the German drive towards Leningrad and defending the city from the approaching Army Group North. By September 1941, German forces to the south were effectively stopped on the outskirts of Leningrad, initiating the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Leningrad. Although Finnish forces to the north stopped at the old Finnish–Soviet border, the Leningrad front suffered severe losses on the Finnish Front. From September 8, soldiers of the front were forced to conduct operations under the conditions of a blockade, with very little supply. Some supplies did reach the city however via the lake Road of Life.
During the blockade, the front executed various offensive and defensive operations, until finally with the help of the Baltic and Volkhov Front, the blockade was lifted. From June 1942, Leonid Govorov had been the commander of the front, and in June 1944, he was awarded the title Marshal of the Soviet Union. In January 1943, forces of the Leningrad front made their first advances in years when they took the town of Shlisselburg from German forces, thus restoring communications between Leningrad and the rest of the country. In mid and late-January 1944 the Leningrad front, along with the Volkhov Front, the 1st Baltic Front and the 2nd Baltic Front, pushed back Army Group North and broke the 28-month-long blockade. Several days later, these forces would completely liberate all of the Leningrad Oblast and Kalinin Oblast. Six months later, the Leningrad Front took over the town of Narva.
Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1944, the most terrible blockade in the history of mankind — the siege of Leningrad (modern-day St ...The people of Leningrad and the soldiers of the Red Army stood like a wall in the way of the invaders.
Adult prisoners, home front workers, survivors of the Siege of Leningrad, as well as those who built defensive structures and worked at air defense facilities and naval and air bases, will receive 55,000 rubles ($535) ... Read more about. WWII , Veterans.
Collection of warm clothes for the front, 1941...Beginning of production of mortar mines for 82-mm battalion mortars for the front at the LeningradATI plant branch in the city of Asbest, Sverdlovsk Region, 1942 ... Artists of Leningrad’s ‘S.
For all its girth, the book focuses on the soldiers, leaving little space for the city’s women, who mainly ran Leningrad after their fathers and husbands left for the front and, most often, never returned.
In school she had studied the Siege of Leningrad, she said. For many Russians -- including Putin, who was born in the city -- the seige of Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, is the central event of Russia's sacrifices on the home front.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of Ukrainian drones were launched at regions across Russia, mostly targeting oil refineries in the Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad regions, all located hundreds of kilometers from the front line in Ukraine... ....
On Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of Ukrainian drones were launched at regions across Russia, mostly targeting oil refineries in the Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad regions, all located hundreds of kilometers from the front line in Ukraine... ....
On Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of Ukrainian drones were launched at regions across Russia, mostly targeting oil refineries in the Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad regions, all located hundreds of kilometers from the front line in Ukraine... ....
On Tuesday and Wednesday, dozens of Ukrainian drones were launched at regions across Russia, mostly targeting oil refineries in the Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad regions, all located hundreds of kilometers from the front line in Ukraine... ....
These archival images capture the first year of life in the USSR without Stalin... G ... Now, take a look at some shots from SovietLeningrad (as St ... In the photo below, archpriest Nikolai Lomakin is pictured in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad.
These archival images capture the first year of life in the USSR without Stalin... G ... Now, take a look at some shots from SovietLeningrad (as St ... In the photo below, archpriest Nikolai Lomakin is pictured in front of St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad ... .
These archival images captured both the difficult moments of World War II front lines, as well as the life in the rear ...Front line photographers bravely went all the way through the war right to Berlin with the troops.
