Editing Continuation War (section)

===Soviet===
[[File:Continuation War July 1941 English.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Finnish, German and Soviet military formations at the start of the Continuation War in June and July 1941]]

The [[Northern Front (Soviet Union)|Northern Front]] ({{langx|ru|Северный фронт|links=no}}) of the [[Leningrad Military District]] was commanded by Lieutenant General [[Markian Popov]] and numbered around 450,000 soldiers in 18 divisions and 40 independent battalions in the Finnish region.{{sfn|Krivosheev|1997|pp= 79, 269–271}} During the Interim Peace, the Soviet Military had relaid operational plans to conquer Finland,{{sfn|Suvorov|2013|p=133}} but with the German attack, Operation Barbarossa, begun on 22 June 1941, the Soviets required its best units and latest materiel to be deployed against the Germans and so abandoned plans for a renewed offensive against Finland.{{sfn|Vehviläinen|2002|p=91}}{{Sfn|Kinnunen|Kivimäki|2011|pp=153–154}} The [[23rd Army (Soviet Union)|23rd Army]] was deployed in the Karelian Isthmus, the [[7th Army (Soviet Union)|7th Army]] to Ladoga Karelia and the [[14th Army (Soviet Union)|14th Army]] to the [[Murmansk]]–[[Salla]] area of Lapland. The Northern Front also commanded eight [[Aviation Division|aviation divisions]].{{sfn|Kirchubel|2013|pp=114–115}} As the initial German strike against the [[Soviet Air Forces]] had not affected air units located near Finland, the Soviets could deploy around 700 aircraft supported by a number of [[Soviet Navy]] wings.{{sfn|Jokipii|1999|p=301}} The [[Baltic Fleet|Red Banner Baltic Fleet]], which outnumbered the [[Kriegsmarine|navy of Germany]] ({{lang|de|Kriegsmarine}}), comprised 2 battleships, 2 light cruisers, 47 destroyers or large torpedo boats, 75 submarines, over 200 smaller crafts, and 682 aircraft (of which 595 were operational).{{sfn|Kirchubel|2013|p=151}}{{sfn|Kovalevsky|2009|pp=3–8}}