![]() ![]() Kursk is further notable for the deliberately defensive battle strategy on the Soviets' part. Overall, the campaign, which included the famous sub-battle at Prokhorovka, remains both the largest armored engagement and the most costly single day of aerial warfare to date. The exact definition of the battle varies: the Germans saw it as comprising Operation Citadel only, while the Soviets considered (and Russians today consider) it to include Citadel and the subsequent Soviet counteroffensives, Operation Kutuzov and Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev. The Battle of Kursk or Kursk Campaign ( July 4 – July 20, 1943), also called Operation Citadel ( German: Unternehmen Zitadelle) by the German Army, was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, and the last German blitzkrieg offensive in the east. Green areas show German advances on Kursk. ![]() ![]() Orange areas show the destruction of an earlier Soviet breakthrough that ended with the Third Battle of Kharkov. The eastern front at the time of the Battle of Kursk. Kursk – Kutuzov – Prokhorovka – Polkovodets Rumyantsev – Belgorod – 4th Kharkov Part of the Eastern Front of World War IIĭisabled Soviet T-34 being towed by a turretless armored recovery tank, under enemy fire.īarbarossa – Finland – Leningrad and Baltics – Crimea and Caucasus – Moscow – 1st Rzhev-Vyazma – 2nd Kharkov – Stalingrad – Velikiye Luki – 2nd Rzhev-Sychevka – Kursk – 2nd Smolensk – Dnieper – 2nd Kiev – Korsun – Hube's Pocket – Belorussia – Lvov-Sandomierz – Balkans – Hungary – Vistula-Oder – Königsberg – Berlin – Prague ![]()
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