After the breakthrough of the blockade

The Leningrad-Novgorod operation is a strategic offensive operation of the Soviet troops of the Leningrad, Volkhovsky and 2nd Baltic fronts, carried out in cooperation with the Baltic Fleet and long-range aviation in order to defeat the German Army Group North, the full removal of the blockade of Leningrad and the liberation of the Leningrad Region. The operation took place in the first months of 1944
during its Soviet troops inflicted a heavy defeat by the German 18th and 16th armies, not only freeing Leningrad from the blockade, but also rejecting the German troops to Estonia and Latvia. The achieved success led to political consequences, Finland began to look for the opportunity to conclude peace with the Soviet Union.
based on numerous documentary material, the book of the famous military historian S.N. Biryuka talks in detail about the February stage of the operation, more precisely, about three battles on the rivers - Luga, Pluss and Lochkin. In addition, the author describes actions to conquer a bridgehead on the western coast of the Chudsk and Pskov lakes - the Pyrissar operation