Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda

Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
Part of the Eastern Front of World War II
Soviet plan for Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda in the context of the wider offensive in the northern and central parts of the front.
Date February 10–April 1, 1943 Location Southern shore of Lake Ladoga , near present-day Saint Petersburg and near Demyansk, Russia Result Stalemate
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
Georg von Küchler	Georgy Zhukov

Eastern Front Naval warfare Baltic Sea Black Sea Arctic Arctic Convoys Rösselsprung Wunderland 1941 Barbarossa Białystok and Minsk Smolensk Uman Leningrad 1st Kiev Sevastopol Rostov Moscow Finland Chechnya 1942 Battles of Rzhev Toropets and Kholm Demyansk Velikiye Luki Mars 2nd Kharkov Case Blue Stalingrad Uranus Winter Storm 1943 3rd Kharkov Kursk 2nd Smolensk Lower Dnieper 2nd Kiev 1944 Dnieper and Carpathian Leningrad and Novgorod Narva Hube's Pocket Crimea Jassy-Kishinev Karelia Bagration Lvov and Sandomierz 2nd Jassy-Kishinev Baltics Debrecen Petsamo and Kirkenes Hungary 1945 Vistula and Oder East Prussia East Pomerania Solstice Silesia Vienna Berlin Czechoslovakia German capitulation

Leningrad and the Baltics 1941–1944 June in Lithuania Summer in Estonia Evacuation of Tallinn Nazi occupation Toropets–Kholm Demyansk Kholm Sinyavino Iskra Polyarnaya Zvezda Relief of the siege Narva Karelian isthmus Vilnius Kaunas Southern Estonia Riga Northern Estonia Attempt to restore independence of Estonia Moonsund Re-occupation of Estonia Courland Re-occupation of Latvia

Operation Polar Star Krasny Bor Smerdynia Gorodok-Siniavino Demyansk

Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda (Russian: Операция Полярная звезда, Operatsia Polyarnaya Zvezda; English translation: Operation Polar Star) was an operation conducted by the Soviet Leningrad, Volkhov and Northwestern Fronts in February and March 1943. The operation was planned in the wake of the successful Operation Iskra. The operation was planned by Georgy Zhukov and envisaged two separate encirclements. One to be carried out in the north by the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts near Mga and further south, by the Northwestern Front, near Demyansk.

The operation succeeded in recapturing Demyansk salient but failed to encircle the German forces. The northern part of the operation failed, without gaining much ground altogether. With the battles south near Kharkov and, later, Kursk using reinforcements for both sides, the frontline near Leningrad stabilised until July 1943

Contents 1 Background 2 Preparations 3 Battle 3.1 Northern part 3.2 Southern part 3.3 Action in March 4 Aftermath 5 Notes 6 References

Background

Preparations

Battle

Northern part

Southern part

Action in March

Aftermath

Notes

References

• Glantz, David M. (2002). The Battle for Leningrad 1941–1944. Kansas University Press. ISBN 0-7006-1208-4. 
• Glantz, David M. (2009). After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offfensive 1942-1943. Helion and Company. ISBN 978-1-906033-26-2. 
• Исаев, Алексей Валерьевич (2006). Когда внезапности уже не было. История ВОВ, которую мы не знали. (in Russian). М. Яуза, Эксмо. ISBN 5-699-11949-3. http://militera.lib.ru/h/isaev_av6/.