Battles of Kiestinki 1942
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 24 April 1942 – 11 May 1942 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1942 | Wikidata P580 (start time) |
| Era | World War II era (1939–1945) | derived from year |
| Location | Russia | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Continuation War | Wikidata P361 |
| Coordinates | 65.8856, 31.8314 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Battles of Kiestinki (Finnish: Kiestingin taistelut), also called the Battles of Kestenga, was one of the largest series of battles on the Northern Front during the broader Continuation War as part of Operation Silver Fox. The battles are named after the village of Kiestinki (Russian: Кестеньга), which is situated on the northern shore of Lake Topozero in Karelia.
Individual battles for the village were fought primarily from July to October 1941 and again from April to May 1942, before devolving into trench warfare which continued until the Moscow Armistice in 1944. The first battle was fought by combined forces of the Finnish III Corps under the command of Hjalmar Siilasvuo and German forces of Army Norway under Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Eduard Dietl, and Hans Feige against Soviet mixed elements of the 7th Army and 14th Army. The second phase of the battle in the spring of 1942 was fought entirely by Soviet troops of the 26th Army under the command of Nikolay Nikishin.
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