Maps 1941

(North-Western Direction)

October 30, 2007

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• North-Western Front (Baltic area)
• Northern/North-Western Fronts (The Battle for Leningrad)

Typical Soviet Abbreviations

Some typical coding of Soviet military maps and battle schemes

Abbreviations of units

North-Western Front # Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source NW4101 Counter-attacks of the Soviet troops Soltsy vicinities NWF July 14 NW4102 Counter-attacks of the Soviet troops Soltsy vicinities NWF July ? NW4103 Summary operations Pskov-Ostrov area Pskov - Ostrov area NWF July 3-9 1 NW4104 Summary operations Luga-Novgorod area Luga - Novgorod NF/NWF July 3-9 1 NW4105 Defensive operations. Luga-Novgorod area Luga - Novgorod NF/NWF July 10 - 13 2 NW4106 Conter-blow of the 11th Army Soltsy vicinities NWF July 14-18 4   North-Western Front (Baltic Area) # Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source BA4101 The opponents assets at the commencement of the operations Baltic Region NWF June 21 1 BA4102 The opponents assets at the commencement of the operations. 03:00 am Baltic Region NWF June 22 14 BA4103 Forces and Artillery Fire of the 125th Rifle Division Baltic Region 11RC/8A June 22 14 BA4104 Military disposition of the 9th Anti-Tank Artillery Brigade Baltic Region 8A June 22 14 BA4105 Positions of the 10th Rifle Division/8th Army and units of the 105th Border Guards Detachment in Klajpeda (Memel) area Baltic Region 10RC/8A June 22 12 BA4106 Combat operations Baltic region NWF June 22 - July 10 1 BA4107 Summary operations of the 8th Army Baltic region NWF June 8 BA4108 Summary operationsof the North-Western Front Baltic region NWF June 22 - July 7 14 BA4109 Course of operations Baltic region NWF June 22-July 9 4 BA4110 Course of operations of the North-Western Front Baltic region NWF June 22 - Oct. 9 BA4111 Meeting engagement of the 28th Tank Division Šiauliai area 12MC/8A June 23-25 3 BA4112 Summary operations for the 8th Army Baltic region NWF June 23 1 BA4113 Operations of the 12th Mechanised Corps accompained by the 2nd Tank Division/3rd Mech Corps Baltic region 12MC/8A 3MC/11A June 23 8 BA4114 Summary operations for the 8th Army Baltic region NWF June 24 1 BA4115 Operations of the 12th Mechanised Corps Baltic region 8A June 24 8 BA4116 Summary operations for the 8th Army Baltic region NWF June 25 1 BA4117 Operations of the 12th Mechanised Corps Baltic region 8A June 25 8 BA4118 Operations of the 21st Mechcorps Daugavpils (Dvinsk) area NWF June 28-July 3 10 BA4119 Operations of the 27th Army Baltic region NWF June 29- July 5 8 BA4120 Situation on the North-Western Front Baltic region NWF June 30 8 BA4121 Situation on Tallinn direction Tallinn NWF Aug. 25 8 BA4122 Course of defensive operations Moonsund archipelago NWF Sept.-Oct. 8 BA4122 Deployment of artillery batteries on isles Moonsund archipelago NWF - 8   Northern/North-Western Fronts. The Battle for Leningrad # Title Area Unit subordination Date Lang. Source L4101 The opponents assets south to the town of Leningrad Leningrad NF/NWF Aug. 8 2 L4102 Defensive operations Gatchina (Krasnogvardeisk) direction NF/NWF Aug. 8-21 5 L4103 Fights for beachhead. Luga bay - Gatchina (Krasnogvardeisk) area NF/NWF Aug. 22 - Sep. 9 5 L4104 Defensive operations of the 42nd Army close approaches to Leningrad LF Sept. 8-15 5 L4105 Course of the 1st Sinyavino operation Leningrad area 310RD/54A/LF Sept 9-Oct. 19 13 L4106 Combat operations of the 264th Separate Artillery-Machine-gun Battalion Petergof area 8A?/LF Sept. 20-24 15 L4107 Course of combat operations close approaches to Leningrad LF September 5 L4108 Combats on Neva bridgehead ("Nevsky pyatachok") Leningrad area 115RD/NOG/LF ~Oct. 16-18 7 L4109 Combat operations Tikhvin - Volkhov area LF Oct. 16-Nov. 10 6 L4110 Course of the 2nd Sinyavino operation Leningrad area LF Oct. 20-28 13 L4111 The battle south-east to Leningrad. Tikhvin operation. The 4th Army Tikhvin - Volkhov area LF Nov 12 - Dec 27 14 L4112 Summary operation in Tikhvin area Tikhvin area LF Nov 12- Dec 31 6 L4113 Scheme of the "Road of Life" and other transport communicatin of Leningrad Leningrad - Ladoga lake LF Nov. 26'41 - year 1943 11 L4114 Disposition of the troops in the course of Tikhvin assault Tikhvin 65RD/4th Separate Army Dec. 8 6   Rem.: Ttroops fought on the Leningrad direction were subordinated in different time periods to the Northern, North-Western and Leningrad fronts.

Combats north from Leningrad see North '41 section

See also: 1942, 1943, 1944 years

Abbreviations

A -Army

LF- Leningrad Front

NOG - Neva Operative Group

NWF - North-Western Front

NF - Northern Front

RC - Rifle Corps

RD - Rifle Division

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