Lifting of the Siege, 1944

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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. The final stage of the Battle for Leningrad of 1941-44. The result of the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive, conducted by the Leningrad Front, the Volkhov Front and the 2nd Baltic Front on 14 - 20 January 1944. The 2nd Strike Army launched a counter strike from the Oranienbaum Bridgehead, as did the 42nd Army from Leningrad's southwest border; on January 19, they united in the Russko-Vysotskoe Region, carrying forth their advance, and by January established the Kotly–Kingisepp line, along the Luga River's middle stream. On 21 January, the 67th Army launched an assault from the Kolpino Region towards Pushkin, Pavlovsk and further on to the southwest, reaching the area of Divenskaya Station by 30 January. Forces from the 8th and 54th armies liberated the west of the Leningrad Region as far as the line, to the upper reach of the Oredezh River, the Volkhov River's middle stream; army forces also occupied Lyuban, Tosno and Chudovo. On 27 January, a salute was fired and the Lifting of the Siege was declared in Leningrad. Offensive action lasted until the beginning of March, when Soviet troops approached Pskov and the Latvian border. The final operation in the Lifting of the Siege was an attack by the 21st and 23rd armies on the Karelian Isthmus from 10 to 20 June, forcing Finnish troops back beyond the Vyborg Line and the Vuoksa River.

References: Славная победа под Ленинградом: Воспоминания, ст. и док., посвящ. разгрому нем.-фашист. войск под Ленинградом. Л., 1976; Освобождение Ленинграда от вражеской блокады: Красносельско-Ропшинская наступательная операция Ленингр. фронта, янв.-февр. 1944 г.: Боевые действия второй Ударной армии: [Сб.]. СПб., 1994.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Славная победа под Ленинградом: Воспоминания, ст. и док., посвящ. разгрому нем.-фашист. войск под Ленинградом. Л., 1976
Освобождение Ленинграда от вражеской блокады: Красносельско-Ропшинская наступательная операция Ленингр. фронта, янв.-февр. 1944 г.: Боевые действия второй ударной армии: [Сб.]. СПб., 1994 Battle for Leningrad, 1941-44
Volkhov Front
Oranienbaum Bridgehead
1944