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Russia 1942 ▶ Battle of Volkhov Schlacht am Wolchow / Leningrad Front Lyuban Operation Любанская наступательная орерация    / @germanhistoryarchive   Playlist ▶    • GERMAN HISTORY ARCHIVE   The Volkhov Battle (also Lyuban Operation, Russian: Любанская наступательная орерация; German: Schlacht am Wolchow) was a Red Army offensive in World War II from January 7 to April 30, 1942. It was conducted by the Volkhov and Leningrad Fronts of the Red Army with the goal of relieving the siege of Leningrad and encircling and destroying the German forces carrying out the siege. The offensive used no tanks because of the terrain, therefore it was down to the infantry and the artillery. The attacking Soviet forces found themselves under intense fire from German defensive positions. The offensive stalled and the Soviets went over to the defensive. Field Marshal Georg von Küchler counterattacked with an operation called 'Wild Beast" (Operation Raubtier) and the Soviet 2nd Shock Army was cut off and surrounded. It was destroyed in June 1942 and its commander Andrey Vlasov was taken prisoner. The Volkhov and Leningrad Fronts lacked the armored vehicles, artillery ammunition, manpower reserves, fuel and food to mount sustained offensive operations against the German 18th Army. Inadequate Soviet firepower could not reduce the German system of fortified strongpoints in the forests.The Germans inflicted heavy losses on the attacking Soviet forces and forced the exhausted Red Army to the defensive. According to general Mikhail Khozin, Soviet armored forces and artillery firepower did not exist in sufficient quantities to exploit penetrations and defeat German counterattacks. Out of 327,700 men deployed into battle from 7 January – 30 April 1942, the Volkhov Front lost 308,367, including 95,064 killed or missing and 213,303 wounded or sick. By the end of January, the troops of the 2nd Shock Army under General Nikolai Klykov advanced almost 75 kilometers deep and reached the approaches to the city of Lyuban by the Novgorod-Leningrad railroad line. The 54th Army (General Ivan Fedjuninski) of the Leningrad Front only managed to break through the lines of the German XXVIII. Army Corps at Pogostje west of Kirishi and advance some 22 kilometers deep, across the Tigoda section into the area northeast of Lyuban. On March 19, the 2nd Shock Army was cut off. On March 27, the 52nd and 59th Armies succeeded, with heavy losses, in breaking the encirclement again. Despite this difficult situation, the Stavka continued to insist on a continuation of the offensive, which had already come to a virtual standstill. General Andrei Vlasov was ordered to move to the defense on the positions it had reached, thus completing the Lyuban offensive operation. General Vlasov did not receive authorization from the Stavka for the necessary withdrawal until the end of May. Between June 22 and 27, 1942, from the north General of Cavalry Kleffel took over the task of holding the cauldron together with the XXXVIII Army Corps (General of Infantry) operating from the south. Armeekorps (General der Infanterie Haenicke) operating from the south, and to crush the forces there. During the last Soviet attempts to break out of the encirclement, which took place on June 24 and 25, the army was almost completely annihilated. Only between 6,000 and 16,000 Red Army troops were able to reach their own lines, and 14,000 to 20,000 were killed in this breakout attempt alone. The Red Army had made gains in terrain, but at disproportionately high casualties (95,000 killed and captured, 213,000 wounded). The objectives of the operation were not achieved; the 2nd Shock Army was completely routed. General Vlasov initially hid behind the German lines, but was captured on July 12, changed sides, and subsequently became commander of the Russian Liberation Army, which was allied with Germany. To get an idea of the harshness of the fighting, the statistical figures of the German 215th Infantry Division can be used as an example. This division suffered the following casualties in the period from November 23, 1941 to July 18, 1942: 961 killed, 3119 wounded, 180 missing, 1633 frost diseases of II and III degree. During the above-mentioned period, the division's light field howitzers alone fired 140,000 shells and the division's heavy field howitzers 30,000 shells during combat operations. The Leningrad blockade continued. Soviet troops again attempted to break the siege in August 1942 in the First Ladoga Battle, pre-empting the German "Unternehmen Nordlicht". history, ww2, Germany, Россия, Russia, Wolchow, Lyuban offensive operation, Battle of Volkhov, Leningrad front, eastern front, Wehrmacht, Red army #history #ww2 #Volkhov #Россия #Germany #military #worldwar2 #Wolchow #Leningrad #simplehistory