The Karelian Front Russian : Карельский фронт ) was a front (a formation of Army Group size) of the Soviet Union 's Red Army during World War II , and operated in Karelia .
6-677: The Karelian Front was created in August 1941 when Northern Front was split into Karelian Front and Leningrad Front to take account of the different military developments and requirements on the Leningrad approaches versus those along the Finnish border to the Arctic. It remained in existence until the end of the war. The front covered the sector north of Lake Ladoga and the Svir River to
12-680: The Arctic Coast near Murmansk. It was involved in combat with both Finnish and German forces along the Soviet-Finnish border. The front between Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega was split off to the independent 7th Army during the static phase of the war. During 1944, the Karelian Front participated with the Leningrad Front in the final offensive against Finland which led to the Soviet-Finnish armistice. In October 1944
18-557: The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation was conducted along the front, capturing some parts of northern Finland and liberating the easternmost parts of the Norwegian Finnmark province from German occupation. The Karelian Front in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation conducted the only successful major military operation ever undertaken in an Arctic environment in modern warfare. The experiences in the conduct of
24-740: The Front for the three months of its existence. The Front's major force structure was based on the 7th Army , 14th Army , 23rd Armies and the Leningrad People's Opolcheniye Army . Other forces included four Rifle Corps , two Mechanized Corps , seventeen Rifle Divisions , four Tank Divisions, two Motor Rifle Divisions, eight artillery regiments of the Reserve of Highest Command, eight Aviation Divisions (including one objective air division), seven Fortified Regions , one Fortified Position, and thirteen machinegun battalions. The formations of
30-689: The operation, particularly in terms of organising rear-area services and supply, were considered important to the conduct of the Red Army’s offensive against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria , and many leading officers were transferred from Karelian Front to the Baikal theatre of war. Order of battle of the Karelian Front on 1 September 1944: Soviet Northern Front The Northern Front ( Russian : Северный фронт )
36-854: Was a front of the Red Army during the Second World War . The Northern Front was created on June 24, 1941 from the Leningrad Military District . Its primary goal was the defense of the Kola Peninsula and the northern shores of the Gulf of Finland . On August 23, 1941, the Front's forces were divided into the Karelian Front and the Leningrad Front . Lieutenant General Markian M. Popov commanded
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