The Leningrad Front was a Soviet Red Army front that existed from 1941 to 27 August 1945 during World War II. The front was created with the goal of halting the German advance on Leningrad (St. Petersburg, Russia), and it would assist in the relief of the Siege of Leningrad in 1944. Afterwards, the Leningrad Front would take part in the liberation of Narva in Estonia and would end the war besieging the Wehrmacht in the Courland Pocket of Latvia. On 24 June 1945, the front became the Leningrad Military District.