April 1942

Eastern Front

The Demyansk pocket is relieved as elements of the relief force link up with the II Corps.

Leonid Govorov is appointed to command the Leningrad Front, while Gen Mikhail Khozin is placed in command of the Volkhov Group.

Gen Golikov, commanding the Bryansk Front, receives orders from the Stavka to assemble a new 48th Army and reinforce the 40th Army in the Kursk and Lgov areas for a counterattack against the northern flank of Army Group South. The Bryansk Front has the 61st, 3rd, 13th and 40th Armies with 23 rifle divisions and 3 tank brigades. Stalin believes the next German offensive will come in the center.