Naval Detachment K

Already during the spring Finnish Lieutenant General Paavo Talvela and Colonel Järvinen who was commanding the Laatokka Coastal Brigade came up with an idea that the boat traffic providing supplies to the Leningrad needed to be disrupted.

Germans responded positively to the proposition and informed the slightly surprised Finns—who apart from Talvela had very little knowledge of the proposition—that transport of the equipment for the Ladoga operation was already arranged.

The unit also staged attacks on enemy bases and conducted limited landing operations on the shores of Lake Ladoga.

Torpedoes proved useless in the shallow waters of southern Lake Ladoga, where they frequently struck the bottom.

German mineboats turned out to have extremely unreliable engines, keeping them docked in port far longer than they spent on actual operations nor were their influence mines especially useful against mainly wooden hulled Soviet vessels.

The Italian torpedo vessels were relocated from Lake Ladoga to Tallinn at the end of October 1942 and would eventually be absorbed into the Finnish Navy.

In January 1943, the Soviet Red Army launched Operation Spark, to open up a land connection to Leningrad and break the siege.