Sinyavino Operations of 1941-42

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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. The First Sinyavino Operation was carried out from 10 to 26 September 1941, by a detachment from the 54th Army (attacking from the Gaitolovo Region towards Sinyavino); by the 115th Rifle Division; and by the 4th Leningrad Front Marines Brigade (which attacked from the region of Nevskaya Dubrovka towards Sinyavino). The 54th Army Detachment advanced 6-10 km, then was surrounded and nearly entirely destroyed. Leningrad Front troops made a forced crossing of the Neva River and occupied the Nevsky Bridgehead, but failed to advance further. The Second Sinyavino Operation was conducted in the period from 20 to 28 October 1941 by the 54th Army (attacked from the region south of Gaitolovo) and the Nevskaya Task Force (launched an assault from the Nevsky Beachhead toward Sinyavino), both of the Leningrad Front. Troops failed to break through. The Third Sinyavino Operation was conducted from 19 August to 10 October 1942 by the Nevsky Task Force (from the Nevsky Beachhead to the Mga area) and the 55th Army (from the Ivanovskoe region to the Tosno sector), both of the Leningrad Front; as well as the 8th Strike Army (from Tartolovo region to Shapki and Tosno) and the 2nd Strike Army (from the Gontovaya Lipka region to Mga), both of the Volkhov Front. Leningrad Front Forces advanced 0.5 - 3 km, their advance was halted in battles with enemy troops, and they retreated on 1 October to the initial line. At the end of August, the Volkhov Front forces advanced to Sinyavino; in September, a counterattack was launched along its edge, and by 10 October they retreated to the initial line with heavy casualties.

Reference: Тайны Синявинских высот: Рассказы артиллеристов - участников Великой Отеч. войны. М., 1960.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Тайны Синявинских высот: Рассказы артиллеристов - участников Великой Отеч. войны. М., 1960 Leningrad Front
Volkhov Front
Breaking of the Siege (1943)
Neva Bridgehead
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