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The takeover of Leningrad was of strategic importance for the German Command. On 8th September 1941 the Germans reached Lake Ladoga and the city turned out to be cut off from the 'mainland'.
The death of starving became to threaten the Leningrad population. The ships of the Baltic Fleet, anti-aircraft guns, artillery and troops of the Red Army defended the city and the 'life road' that became operable after the frosts. Multiple attempts of the Soviet Command to break though the encirclement failed one after another.
And it was only at the Neva Bridgehead that sanguinary battles were still held. People were dying in the city, but the city’s plants continued to work. General Vlasov, who later was taken prisoner and became cooperating with the Germans, was appointed the commander of the 2nd Shock Army that was also encircled near Leningrad. And it was not before February 1943 that Leningrad was liberated during Operation Spark held by the Soviet Command.
