Blockade: The Luga Defense Line

Overview

In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.

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Yuriy Solomin

Aleksei Zvyagintsev

Yevgeni Lebedev

Ivan Korolyov

Irina Akulova

Vera Korolyova

Lev Zolotukhin

Colonel Pavel Korolyov

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Fyodor Valitskiy

Aleksandr Razin

Anatoliy Valitskiy

Boris Gorbatov

Joseph Stalin

Sergei Kharchenko

Zhdanov

Daniil Sagal

Marshal Voroshilov

Vasiliy Minin

Marshal Timoshenko