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Volkhov Front
Volkhov Front
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Army. Navy/Blokade
VOLKHOV FRONT, joint USSR armed forces from the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, which operated in the Leningrad and Novgorod regions. The front was formed on 17 December 1941 from left wing Leningrad front forces, and consisted of the 4th, 52nd, 59th, and 2nd shock armies; together, they were ordered to hold the front line along the Volkhov River, from Lake Ilmen to the city of Kirishi, and north-west of the southern side of Lake Ladoga; also executed offensives together with the Leningrad front in the north, aiming to lift the Siege of Leningrad. While trying to lift the Siege, Volkhov Front troops carried out several unsuccessful offensives in 1942, including the Lyuban Offensive in January - April (on account of losses, the Volkhov Front was reorganized into the Volkhov group of forces on 23 May; on 9 June, however, it was reassembled after it was joined by the 8th and 54th shock armies); and the Sinyavino Offensive in August-October. In August 1942, the Volkhov Front was joined by the 14th Air Army, in February 1943 by the 1st Shock Army. In January 1943, Volkhov and Leningrad front troops managed to break the Siege; in July-August 1943, they launched the unsuccessful Mga (a small Russian town towards Kirishi) Offensive; in January - February 1944, they were successful in the Novgorod-Luga Operation, which resulted in the Lifting the Siege. On 15 February 1944, the Volkhov Front was disbanded, its troops passed to the Leningrad and 2nd Baltic fronts. The front was commanded by General of the Army K. A. Meretskov. References: На Волховском фронте, 1941-1944 гг. М., 1982; Мерецков К. А. На службе народу. 5-е изд. М., 1988. G. V. Kalashnikov.
Persons
Meretskov Kirill Afanasievich
Bibliographies
Мерецков К. А. На службе народу. 5-е изд. М., 1988
На Волховском фронте, 1941-1944 гг. М., 1982
The subject Index
Siege of 1941-44
Breaking of the Siege (1943)
Lifting of the Siege, 1944
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Breaking of the Siege (1943)
BREAKING OF THE SIEGE 1943, 12 - 30 January, an offensive operation, code named "Iskra" (Sparkle), along the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts by Baltic Fleet forces in the region of the Schlisselburg-Sinyavino heights
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Fedyuninsky I.I. (1900-1977), military commander, general
FEDYUNINSKY Ivan Ivanovich (1900-1977), Soviet military commander, General (1955), Hero of the Soviet Union (1939). From 1919 served in the Red Army. Participated in the Civil War
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Lifting of the Siege, 1944
LIFTING THE SIEGE. Part of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45; the complete liquidation and annihilation of all military threats to Leningrad, and the restoration of normal functioning of city communications
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Meretskov K.A. (1897-1968), military commander, marshal
MERETSKOV Kirill Afanasievich (1897-1968), Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1944), Hero of the Soviet Union (1940). Participated in the Civil War
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Pushkarev V.A. (1915-2002), art historian, museum worker
PUSHKAREV Vasily Alexeevich (1915-2002), art historian, museum worker, honoured worker of arts of the Russian Federation (1994), honorary member of the Academy of Arts (2002)
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Rozhdestvensky V.A. (1895-1977), poet
ROZHDESTVENSKY Vsevolod Alexandrovich (1895, Tsarskoe Selo of St. Petersburg province - 1977, Leningrad), a poet. He graduated from the First St. Petersburg Gymnasia and began to appear in the press in 1910
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Simonyak N.P. (1901-1956), military commander, General
SIMONYAK Nikolay Pavlovich (1901-1956, St. Petersburg), miltary commander, Lieutenant General (1944), Hero of the Sovit Union (1943). From 1918 in the service in the Red Army. Participated in the Civil War of 1917-22
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Sinyavino Operations of 1941-42
SINYAVINO OPERATIONS of 1941-42. Several offensive operations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45; failed attacks by Leningrad Front and Volkhov Front forces to lift the Siege of Leningrad
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Voroshilov K.E. (1881-1969), statesman, marshal
VOROSHILOV Kliment Efremovich (1881-1969), Soviet statesman and military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1935), Hero of the Soviet Union (1956, 1968), Hero of Socialist Labour (1960)
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Zhukov G.K. (1896-1974), military commander, Marshal
ZHUKOV Georgy Konstantinovich (1896-1974), Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Hero of the Soviet Union (1939, 1944, 1945, 1956). Graduated from the courses of the Supreme Chief of Staff of the Revolutionary Committee of
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