Word: govorov
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...formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries...
Other armies, possibly sparkplugged by Rokossovsky's forces, might launch a drive to Warsaw along the north fringe of the Pripet. Meanwhile Govorov and Meretskov could help things along with a westward reach for the Baltic...
Pobeda I. To short, rotund General Leonid Govorov went the credit for the most momentous of the four successes. A month earlier he had been besieged in Leningrad. This week the Leningrad front was no more: Govorov's armies fought on Estonian soil. Estonia's capital, Tallinn, was only 150 mi. away...
Uneasy Scandinavia ticked off Govorov's real and potential gains...
...Govorov's victory also had a heavy political tinge. It foreshadowed the reabsorption of the three Baltic states within Russia, after a 22-year interlude of independence. It presaged a near test of Russia's amended constitution (see p. 34). It strengthened the hand of the peace advocates in Finland. Above all, it put a new strain on Germany's morale-and that was a military gain as well...