The operation was planned Arranging by Georgy Zhukov in the wake of the successful Operation Iskra and envisaged two separate encirclements .

It called Request for a pincer attack Attack near Leningrad , to build Building on the success of Operation Iskra and completely lift the Siege Besieging of Leningrad , encircling Besieging a substantial part of the German 18th Army .

Operation Iskra ( ) , a Soviet military operation in January 1943 during World War II , aimed Aiming to break the `` Wehrmacht 's '' Siege of Leningrad .

By January 1943 , Soviet forces were planning Arranging or conducting offensive operations across the entire German-Soviet front , especially in southern Russia ; Iskra formed Coming_to_be the northern part of the wider Soviet 1942–1943 winter counter-offensive .