Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive

The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive or Karelian offensive was a strategic operation by the Soviet Leningrad and Karelian Fronts against Finland on the Karelian Isthmus and East Karelia fronts of the Continuation War, on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviet forces captured East Karelia and Vyborg. After that, however, fighting reached a stalemate.

The operations of the strategic offensive can be divided into the following offensives:

• Vyborg (10 June 1944 - 20 June 1944) by the Leningrad Front
• Virojoki-Lappeenranta (21 June 1944 - 15 July 1944) by the Leningrad Front
• Björkö landing (20 June 1944 - 25 June 1944) by the Baltic Fleet
• Svir–Petrozavodsk (21 June 1944 - 9 August 1944) Karelian Front
• Tuloksa landing (June 23, 1944 - June 27, 1944) by the Soviet Ladoga Flotilla

Background

In January 1944, Soviet forces raised the Siege of Leningrad and drove the German Army Group North to the Narva-Lake Ilmen-Pskov line. Finland asked for peace conditions in February, but the Parliament, Eduskunta considered the received terms impossible to fulfill. After Finland had rejected the peace conditions, and Germany denied the Soviets from the Baltic Sea at Narva,Newton the Stavka (Main Command of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union) started to prepare for an offensive to force Finland's exit from the war.

The plan

In order to destroy the Finnish Army and to push Finland out of the war, the Stavka decided to...
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