Sinyavino offensive

The Sinyavino offensives were a serie of Soviet offensives in 1941–1943 during World War II around the Sinyavino Heights, east of Leningrad, to lift the Siege of Leningrad. The area was only fully liberated during the Leningrad–Novgorod offensive in January 1944.

List of battles

First Sinyavino offensive (1941)

The first Sinyavino offensive was a Soviet counterattack during the German

The third Sinyavino offensive was a major Soviet offensive between 19 August and 10 October 1942, with no results but with serious losses on both sides.

Fourth Sinyavino offensive (January 1943)

The fourth Sinyavino offensive, better known as Operation Iskra , was a successful Soviet offensive in January 1943 that conquered the territory north of Sinyavino and opened up a corridor between the besieged city of Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union. The Sinyavino Heights itself remained in German hands.

Fifth Sinyavino offensive (summer 1943)

The fifth Sinyavino offensive, also known as the Mga offensive (Soviet) or Third Battle of Lake Ladoga (German), was a Soviet offensive between 22 July and 25 September 1943, which made very little progress, but did succeed in conquering a substantial part of the Sinyavino Heights.

Sixth Sinyavino offensive (September 1943)

During the fifth Sinyavino offensive, there was a pause between 22 August and 15 September 1943, and therefore this battle is sometimes described as two different battles.

Sources

• Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia
• the article in the Russian Wikipedia, 1-я Синявинская операция (1941).
• the article in the Russian Wikipedia, 2-я Синявинская операция (1941).