This is the order of battle for the Leningrad Strategic Defensive covering the period 10 July to 30 September 1941.
The Northern Front was active from 10 July to 23 August 1941 when the command was divided into the Karelian and Leningrad Fronts. Operated in Estonia.
Composition as of 1 July 1941:[1]
Composition as of 1 August 1941[1]
The Leningrad Front (Russian: Ленинградский фронт) was first formed on 23 August 1941, by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front, during the German approach on Leningrad. The Front participated through the ed of the operation. It operated from the Gulf of Finland to Lake Ilmen and in Estonia until 27 August.
Composition on 1 September 1941:[1]
Composition on 1 October 1941:[2]
The Northwestern Front was involved in the operation for the entire duration. It operated in the area from Pskov to Novorzhev, then south and southeast of Lake Ilmen.
Composition on 1 July 1941:[1]
Composition on 1 August 1941:[1]
Composition on 1 October 1941[2]
SOURCE:[3]
The 8th Army was involved in the operation for the entire period. First operating in Estonia, then divided into two parts, one the Tallinn area and the other in the Narva - Kingisepp, the army ended the operation in the area which would become the Oranienbaum Bridgehead. 6 commanders between 22 June - 30 September 1941.
The 11th Army was involved in the operation for the entire period. It led the defense of the areas west and southwest of the Lake Ilmen retreating to the area south and then southeast of the lake. Commander : Vasili Morozov
The 27th Army was involved in the operation for the entire period. Led the defense in the area from Slavkovichi - Novorzhev, retreating towards Kholm and then further to the north shore of Lake Seliger. Commander : Nikolai Berzarin
The army's involvement began in early August 1941 near Staraya Russa and to the south. The army eventually retreated to the area east of Demyansk. Commanders : Kuzma Kachanov until 12 September - Petr Alferev
The army took part in the operation from 9–30 September 1941. Conducted combat operations in the approaches to Leningrad from the Gulf of Finland to the city of Pushkin. Commanders : Fedor Sergeevich Ivanov until 15 September - Ivan Fedyuninsky
The army was involved in the operation from 10 August to 14 September 1941 when the army was disbanded. The army operated in the area west of the Lake Ilmen. Commanders : Stepan Akimov until 31 August - Maksim Antoniuk
The army was involved in the operation from 26 August to the turn of the Volkhov River north of Novgorod. Commander : Nikolai Klykov
The army was formed on 5 September 1941 with the mission of securing the shores of Lake Ladoga to prevent the Germans from encircling Leningrad. The army participated in the operation to the end. Commanders : Grigory Kulik until 25 September - Mikhail Khozin Composition on 1 October 1941:[2]
The army was formed on 1 September 1941 and operated in the area from Pushkin to the bend of the Neva River through the end of the operation. Commander : Ivan Gavrilovich Lazarev
See Leningrad Narodnoe Opolcheniye Army for details on Leningrad's Militia units. In late September 1941 the divisions were incorporated into the Red Army.
Took part in the fighting from mid-July in Luga through 16 September when the group was disbanded in Leningrad.
Presents the largest and units of the German armed forces. It should be borne in mind that the operation involved a variety of specialist, such as artillery and self-propelled artillery (including the provision of OKH), Samokatnaya, rail, engineering, combat engineers, pontoon bridge, part of the army air defense and air defense and the Luftwaffe.
Data on 8 August 1941.
Participated throughout the operation. Led offensive in Estonia, along the eastern shore of Lake Peipsi, then advanced on Leningrad from the south-west and west.
The XXXXII Army Corps was transferred to the 18th Army on 18 July 1941.
Participated in the operation from 10 July to 18 September 1941. The unit was the main striking force for the German forces attack towards Leningrad. The LVI Motorized Corps advanced towards Luga, bypassing the city to the north, breaking through Soviet positions south of Kingisepp, Krasnogvardeisk, and reached the Pulkovo Heights. On 15 September the main forces of the group begin its redeployment from the Leningrad axis to the Moscow axis.
The L Army Corps was transferred to the group on 14 August 1941.
Participated in the operation for the entire period. Originally moving in the area south of Lake Ilmen, the army's right flank was engaged against the Western Front. After regrouping the army advanced north and south of Lake Ilmen on the Novgorod-Chudovo-Leningrad and Staraya Russa-Kholm-Demyansk axis.
Part of the group was involved in operations from 24 August to the end of the operation at Leningrad (XXXIX Motorized Corps) and from 30 August to 24 September 1941 in the Demyansk direction (LVII Motorized Corps).
Data as of 3 August 1941.[4]
Took part in the entire operation. Reinforces by Kampfgeschwader 4 on 6 August 1941.
The VIII. Fliegerkorps took part in the operation from late July to 20 September 1941.
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