The blockade of Leningrad is one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of World War II. Despite the lack of forces and resources, problems in other sectors of the front and weather conditions, the Red Army for two and a half years did not abandon attempts to push the Germans away from the "cradle of the revolution." The book, based on numerous domestic and German documents, memoirs of participants in events and other sources, details all the air operations and battles that took place over several years in the northern theater of operations. Not only about the Luftwaffe raids on Leningrad and Kronstadt, the Germans' attempts to cut communication across Lake Ladoga ("Road of Life"), but also about the battles for Sinyavino, Lyuban, Demyansk, Staraya Russa, Kholm, Velikiye Luki, etc. The unique facts and details collected and systematized by the author allow us to take a fresh look at the course of the well-known and not so battles of the Great Patriotic War, to better understand the reasons for the successes and failures of the Red Army.