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Luzhsky Line
Luzhsky Line
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LUZHSKY LINE. A system of defence constructions along the banks of the Luga River, Mshaga River, and Shelon River, up to the Ilmen Lake. The Luzhsky Line was constructed by residents from Leningrad and its region in July 1941 to hold back German blitzkrieg attacks. To defend the Luzhsky Line, the Luzhsky Task Force was formed (Commander Lieutenant General K.P. Pyadyshev), consisting of seven riflemen divisions (including three Leningrad divisions of the People's Volunteer Militia). Battles on the Luzhsky Line started on 10 July in the Plyussa River area. In August 1941, enemy forces broke through the Luzhsky Line; on 18 August Soviet troops left Kingisepp, and on 24 August, they left the town of Luga.
Reference: Кринов Ю. С. Лужский рубеж: Год 1941-й. 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Л., 1987.
A. Y. Chistyakov.
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Pyadyshev K.P.
Bibliographies
Кринов Ю. С. Лужский рубеж: Год 1941-й. 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Л., 1987
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Defence Constructions of 1941-43
DEFENCE CONSTRUCTION OF 1941-43. Mass defence construction across Leningrad and the Leningrad Region was conducted throughout the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 by civilians (mainly women
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Northern Front of 1941
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
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People's Volunteer Militia of 1941
PEOPLE'S VOLUNTEER MILITIA (NARODNOE OPOLCHENIE) OF 1941. Volunteer military units formed at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, made up of people not subject to immediate draft upon mobilization
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