Northern Front of 1941

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NORTHERN FRONT, joint armed forces of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Deployed on 24 June 1941 from the Leningrad Air Defence Force to defend the Soviet-Finnish border from the Barents Sea to the Baltic Sea. Northern Front troops stopped the German advance on the Kola Peninsula, but retreated under pressure from Finnish troops along the Karelian Isthmus, and between Ladoga Lake and Onega Lake. From the beginning of July 1941, the Northern Front was responsible for defending Leningrad against approaches from the south and southwest. The front was comprised of the 7th, 8th, 14th, 23rd and 48th armies, air force and air defence units, the Luga Regional Defence Force, and other units and detachments; the Baltic Fleet was operationally assigned to it. Northern Front troops fought a German advance along the Luga line of defence for almost a month. On 23 August 1941, the Northern Front was divided into the Leningrad Front and the Karelia Front. The Northern Front was commanded by Lieutenant General M.M. Popov.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Popov Markian Mikhailovich
Baltic Fleet
Luzhsky Line
Leningrad Front