A-A line

Arkhangelsk

Astrakhan

Moscow

Stalingrad

Leningrad

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Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan, with Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad (strategic cities at the limits of Germany's actual advance) also shown.

The Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan line,^{[nb 1]} or A–A line for short, was the military goal of Operation Barbarossa. It is also known as the Volga–Arkhangelsk line,^[1] as well as (more rarely) the Volga–Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan line.^{[nb 2]}^[2] It was first mentioned on 18 December 1940 in Führer Directive 21 (Fall Barbarossa) which enunciated the set goals and conditions of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, describing the attainment of the "general line Volga–Archangelsk" as its overall military objective.^[3]

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^ Boog, Horst (1996). Germany and the Second World War: The attack on the Soviet Union, p. 278. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.
^ Boog, p. 803.
^ Works related to Führer Directive 21 at Wikisource.

[2] Boog, Horst (1996). Germany and the Second World War: The attack on the Soviet Union, p. 278. Oxford University Press Inc., New York.

[4] Boog, p. 803.

[5] Works related to Führer Directive 21 at Wikisource.

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