The Leningrad Front was a Soviet front formed during the 1941 German approach on Leningrad by dividing the Northern Front into the Leningrad Front and Karelian Front on August 27, 1941.
Soviet soldiers in the trenches on the Leningrad Front before an offensive. The soldier in the center possesses a DP machine gun.
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was a Soviet military leader who served as a top commander during World War II and achieved the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Zhukov served as
Leningrad Front
…Marshal of the Soviet Union - Kliment Voroshilov (September 1941); General of the Army - Georgy Zhukov (September–October 1941); Major General - Ivan Fedyuninski (October 1941…
Non-commissioned officer Georgy Zhukov, Russian Imperial Army, 1916
Zhukov as a regimental commander, 1920s
Graduates of the Leningrad Higher Cavalry School (1924/25). Standing in the third row (right to left): 1. Zhukov, 5. Rokossovsky.