Unknown battle of the Karelian front in july 1944
The article highlights the major offensive of the 7th Army of Karelian Front the north-east Pitkaranta at the front between Lake Vuortanajärvi and Lake Ladoga, in mid-July 1944. There are no special works dedicated to this key episode of the so-called Svir-Petrozavodsk operation in the Russian historiography of World War II up to the present time. The tactical breakout north-west Lake Nietjärvi achieved by the 4th Infantry Corps’s units on 15-17 July 1944 was subsequently blocked by Finnish troops. Therefore, the 7th Army did not fulfill the task of capturing the town of Sortavala and moving towards Mikkeli. As a result Stavka of the Supreme Command was forced to abandon the goals of operation - unconditional surrender the Finnish Army, capturing the entire south-eastern Finland and the rapid withdrawal of the country from the war.