Northern Front (Soviet Union)

• 14th Army (HQ in Murmansk) with its commander, General Lieutenant Valerian Frolov, responsible for the Defence Sector No.1 which extended from the coast of the Barents Sea to include the entire Kola Peninsula and in particular the Murmansk to Kandalaksha railway. :14th Rifle Division defending the Petsamo sector :42nd Rifle Corps ::104th Rifle Division ::122nd Rifle Division :52nd Rifle Division :1st Tank Division :104 Gun Artillery Regiment of the Reserve of Highest Command :23rd Murmansk Fortified Region () :35th, 100th, 82nd, 72nd and 101st Border Guard Detachments :1st Mixed Air Division • Northern Fleet commanded by Admiral Arseniy Golovko (based at Polyarny) and its coast defence and naval aviation units. ==7th Army==

• Separate 7th Army (HQ in Suoyarvi) with its commander Lieutenant General Filip D. Gorelenko responsible for the Defence Sector No.2 covering the longest sector of the Front between the Kola Peninsula and Lake Ladoga, and in particular having the responsibility at once for the gap between the Ladoga and Onega lakes, and the possible land assault to cut off Arkhangelsk. In fact the Stavka had determined the Army had four sectors in its responsibility. ::153rd Fighter Aviation Regiment ::72nd Bomber Aviation Regiment ==23rd Army==

• 23rd Army (HQ in (Kuusa or Kusa (village)) with its commander General Lieutenant P.S. Pshennikov responsible for the Defence Sector No.3 that included immediate approaches to Leningrad, including two major population centres of particular interest to Finland, Sortavala and Vyborg. Given the importance of the defended objectives, and previous experience in the Winter War, the Army was allocated two Rifle Corps, one Mechanised Corps, four rifle divisions, two tank and one Motor Rifle Divisions, three howitzer and one gun Regiment of the Reserve of Highest Command, two Fortified Regions, three border guard detachments, and one aviation division :19th Rifle Corps ::142nd Rifle Division ::115th Rifle Division :50th Rifle Corps ::43rd Rifle Division ::123rd Rifle Division :10th Mechanised Corps (removed from the Army in early July) ::21st Tank Division ::24th Tank Division ::198th Motor Rifle Division :101, 108, 519 Howitzer Artillery Regiments of the Reserve of Highest Command :573 Gun Artillery Regiment of the Reserve of Highest Command :102nd, 5th, 33rd Border Guard Detachments :27th Vyborg Fortified Region () :28th Keksgolm Fortified Region () :5th Mixed Air Division which was particularly tasked with preventing repulsing either amphibious or airborne landings in and around the Gulf of Finland coast. ==Leningrad People's Opolcheniye Army==

• 1st (Kirov) Division of People's Opolcheniye () named for the Kirovsky District (Кировский район) (commander Kombrig V.A. Malinnikov) • 76th Latvian Separate Rifle regiment on the 14 September. • 2nd (Moscow) Division of People's Opolcheniye named for the Moskovsky District (Московский район) () (commander to July, Colonel N.S. Ugrumov) • battalion of the Military-Political Border Guard School named for Voroshilov () • 519th Corps (Howitzer) Artillery Regiment of Reserve of Highest Command • Tank battalion of the Armoured Course for Enhancement of Command Staff () • 3rd (Frunze) Division of People's Opolcheniye named for the Frunzensky District (Фрунзенский район) () (commander (Colonel А.P. Netreba, from 16 August Z.N. Alekseyev) • 1st Guards Division of People's Opolcheniye () (18 July 1941) (commander Colonel I.M. Frolov) (deployed next to the 237th Rifle Division) formed in the Kuybishev District • 2nd Guards Division of People's Opolcheniye () (18 July 1941) (commander Colonel Sholev, later Colonel V.A. Trubachev) formed in the Sverdlovsk District • tank battalion of the Leningrad garrison • 4th (Dzerzhinsky) Light Division of People's Opolcheniye () (19 July 1941) named for the Dzerzhinsky District (Дзержинский район) (commander Colonel P.I Radigin) • Separate battalion of Special Purpose () (commander Almazov) • 3rd Guards Division of People's Opolcheniye () (24 July 1941) (commander Colonel V.P. Kotelnikov) formed in the Petrograd District • 4th Guards Division of People's Opolcheniye () (27 July 1941) formed in the Kalinin District (cadre) • 264th, 265th and 266th separate machinegun-artillery battalions () (264th – 277th and 282nd, 283rd and 289th battalions were created) • 274th separate machinegun-artillery battalion was allocated to the 177th Rifle Division • Four Izhorsk “Admiralty” battalions (later 72nd, 73rd, 74th, 75th Combat Red Banner separate machinegun-artillery battalion of the 55th Army) • Several Destroyer regiments of special purpose were also formed that were eventually integrated into the regular units and partisan detachments. • Deployed in Gatchina was the 60th destroyer battalion () • 104th (Terioksky) destroyer battalion (104-й (Териокский) истребительный батальон) deployed in the area of Terioki (now Zelenogorsk) • Deployed around Kolpino was the 120th destroyer battalion (120-й истребительный батальон) (commander A.I. Osovsky) • 2nd Latvian workers regiment (commander) () • 5th (Kuybishevskaya) Division of People's Opolcheniye () (1 September 1941) (commander Colonel F.P. Utkin) formed early September 1941 from the former 4th People's Opolcheniye division and on the 10 September dislocated to Pulkovo. • 291st separate machinegun-artillery battalion (commander Captain Kaverznev) • 6th Division of People's Opolcheniye () (1 September 1941) • 7th Division of People's Opolcheniye () (commander Colonel I.S. Kuznetsov) raised on the 17 September it was formed on the 30 September as the 56th Rifle Division. • 277th separate machinegun-artillery battalion around Ropsha • 83rd separate machinegun-artillery battalion (commander Lieutenant E.G. Grigoryev) around Ropsha and Kolpino ==65th Rifle Corps==

• 65th Rifle Corps (less its Corps artillery regiments) :4th Air Division (from the Leningrad Military District) ==Hanko Peninsula naval base==

• The Hanko Peninsula naval base (commander General S.I. Kobanov) on the Hanko Peninsula was responsible for the No.5 Defence Sector and included :29th Hanko Peninsula naval base Fortified Region () (General Major Shore Duty Aleksei Borisovish Yeliseyev) ::8th Separate Rifle Brigade (Colonel Nikolai Pavlovich Simonyak) :Hanko Peninsula Border Guard detachment :13th Fighter Aviation Regiment Separate Reconnaissance Air Squadron :Submarine Divizion :Torpedo Boat Brigade ==8th Army==

• 8th Army (from North Western Front after 19 August 1941) ==48th Army==

• 48th Army (from North Western Front after 19 August 1941) ==Military aviation of the Leningrad Military District==

7th PVO Fighter Aviation Corps (later the 2nd PVO Guards Fighter Aviation Corps) ==Leningrad Military District forces==

• The Leningrad Military District also included forces directly subordinated to its commander (Popov). :1st Mechanised Corps less 1st Tank Division which was concentrated around Sluttsk and Pushkino :70th Rifle Division in the Karelian Isthmus half way between Leningrad and Vyborg (Muola). :191st and 177th Rifle Divisions that remained at cadre strength awaiting mobilisation. :4th, 41st and 39th Air Divisions • The Baltic Fleet (from 28 June 1941) :Vessels of the Baltic Fleet were severely restricted by the geography and lack of air superiority in conducting offensive operations, however their ships batteries included guns in the 305mm, 180mm and 130mm calibres, and the Scientific-research naval artillery range also located in Leningrad possessed 406mm pieces that were being developed for future Soviet battleship designs, and these were without opposition until Germans were able to move the heavy railway guns to the area. ==NKVD troops==

• The 2nd Division of the NKVD troops () was responsible for security of specific high-value objectives throughout the Leningrad Military District territory, particularly the railways, and its 11,200 troops were equipped with armoured trains and motorised armoured rail-cars. ==References==