![]() ![]() ![]() From here they launched a systematic bombardment, which disabled the power stations that supplied Leningrad with electricity. In the north, the advancing Finnish Defence Forces stopped at the border and completed the encirclement. German tanks were just 16 km (10 miles) from the city. After severing ground communications, on 8 September they encircled the city and began a sustained and devastating blockade. Army Group North overcame heavy resistance to launch long-range artillery attacks on Leningrad. As Army Group North (comprising 18th Army, 4th Panzer Army and 16th Army) advanced, the Russians formed the defensive Leningrad Front further defence was created through the split of the northern Front to create the Karelian Front. One of Hitler’s strategic goals under Operation Barbarossa was Leningrad, the symbolic capital of the Russian Revolution.
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