 Operating in conjunction with the troops of the Volkhov Front it defeated the Mga and Luga groups of German troops and captured Mga on 21 January.The army attempted to surround the German XXVII Army Corps and XXVIII Army Corps from the north, but its attacks were stopped by the 12th Panzer Division.The army captured Luga on 12 February.Continuing the offensive, the army reached the Pskov-Ostrov fortified area at the end of February.In March Sviridov was replaced by Lieutenant general Vladimir Romanovsky.