Three comrades retreat from the Battle of Kharkov: 28-year-old Lieutenant Kerzhentsev (Vsevolod Safonov), his runner Valega (Yuri Solovyov), and regimental scout Ivan Sedykh (Vladimir Kovalkov).
The oblast has an area of 84,500 square kilometres (32,600 sq mi) and a population of 2,000,997 (2021 Census); [12 ] up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Census. [13 ] Leningrad Oblast is highly industrialized.