7th Army (RSFSR)

On November 22, 1918, units of the 7th Army attacked Narva for the first time, but the assault was repulsed by the German troops still remaining in the city.

Then the troops of the 7th Army began to advance westward, and by early January 1919 they were 35 kilometers from Tallinn.

In spring 1919 the 7th Army defended the approaches to Petrograd against Finnish troops on the Karelian and Onega-Ladoga Isthmus, the White Guard Northern Corps of Major-General Dzerozhinsky and Estonian troops south of the Gulf of Finland.

In the autumn of 1919, the troops of the Northwestern Army under Major-General Alexander Rodzyanko and from October 2, General Nikolai Yudenich undertook a second attempt to conquer Petrograd.

The outskirts of the city were reached but the reinforced 7th Army was able to halt their advance and launched a counteroffensive on October 21.