The Germans hoped to weaken the Soviet offensive potential for the summer of 1943 by cutting off a large number of forces that they anticipated would be in the Kursk salient. Their extensive loss of men and tanks ensured that the victorious Soviet Red Army enjoyed the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war. For the Germans, the battle was the final strategic offensive that they were able to launch on the Eastern Front. The German offensive was countered by two Soviet counter-offensives, Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev and Operation Kutuzov.

The German offensive was code-named Operation Citadel and led to one of the largest armored clashes in history, the Battle of Prokhorovka. The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union during July and August 1943. The whole world learned clearly the superiority of our army and the mastery of the battle in the armament and management of the strategy. The name of the printing house is Department of Topography and Cartography of the Union Soviet Ministers of the USSR.Īt the top right, the message from a speech given by Leonid Brezhnev, 'Grand Victory of the Soviet People' given on May 1965, in red translates as: Major Battle in Orolovsko Kursk during the summer of 1943, which broke the back of Hitler's Germany and decimated the German heavy tank army. The title translation reads 'Counter Attack by the Soviet Forces.' The map on the right shows counteroffensive of the Russians between July 12 and August 23, 1943. The title reads 'Defensive Posture of the Soviet Forces.'

The map on the left shows the initial attack by the Germans between July 5 and July 23, 1943. This map was likely used for teaching purposes, to Russian High School aged students, in the 1970s. African Islands, including Madagascar (68)įascinating Russian Educational Wall Map, illustrating and describing the Battle of Kursk in the Summer of 1943, with a vignette from the Battle.

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