Leningrad strategic defensive

Leningrad strategic defensive | partof = the Eastern Front of World War II | image = Siege of Leningrad Eastern Front 1941 06 to 1941 12.png | caption = | date = 10 July – 30 September 1941 | place = Pskov Oblast, Novgorod Oblast, Estonia, Leningrad Oblast, the Baltic Sea | result = German victory, a siege laid to Leningrad | combatant1 =  Germany | combatant2 =  Soviet Union | commander1 = Wilhelm von Leeb
G. Küchler
Ernst Busch
Erich Hoepner
G. Reinhardt
E. von Manstein | commander2 = Petr Sobennikov
Pavel Kurochkin
Markian Popov
Kliment Voroshilov
Georgy Zhukov
Vladimir Tributs | units1 = Army Group North

• 4th Panzer Group
• 16th Army
• 18th Army

| units2 = Northwestern Front
Leningrad Front (from 27/8)
Baltic Fleet | strength1 = 517,000 | strength2 = 725,000 | casualties1 = 60,000 | casualties2 = 214,000 were killed or captured
1,492 tanks destroyed
9,889 artillery pieces lost
1,702 aircraft destroyed
733,300 small arms lost

Total:
345,000 casualties }}

Leningrad strategic defensive operation is the term in Soviet historiography for the defensive operations in the area south of Leningrad by the Red Army and the Soviet Navy during World War II from 10 July to 30 September 1941. The following operations are considered as part of the strategic operation:

Kingisepp–Luga defensive 10 July – 23 September 1941

Soltsy–Dno offensive 14–22 July 1941

Tallinn defensive 5– 28 August 1941

Staraya–Russa offensive 8–23 August 1941

Demyansk defensive 6–26 September 1941