Beginning at the end of August 1942, Kriegsmarine submarines, trying to complicate the activities of Soviet merchant ships and naval ships in the western sector of the Arctic, began laying mines in coastal waters. The main burden of the fight against them fell on the White Sea Navy Flotilla, created in August 1941, with its main base in Arkhangelsk
Beginning at the end of August 1942, Kriegsmarine submarines, trying to complicate the activities of Soviet merchant ships and naval ships in the western sector of the Arctic, began laying mines in coastal waters. The main burden of the fight against them fell on the White Sea Navy Flotilla, created in August 1941, with its main base in Arkhangelsk