"Soviet strategic victory" . "Operation Iskra (Russian: \u043E\u043F\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u044F \u00AB\u0418\u0441\u043A\u0440\u0430\u00BB, operatsiya Iskra; English: Operation Spark) was a Soviet military operation during World War II, designed to break the German Wehrmacht's Siege of Leningrad. Planning for the operation began shortly after the failure of the Sinyavino Offensive. The German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 had weakened the German front."@en . . . "Germany" . . "700 artillery pieces" . . "Operation Iskra"@en . . "50 tanks" . "900 aircraft" . "4600 artillery pieces" . "500 tanks" . . . . . . "12,000 killed, more wounded" .