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    The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia...
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    initiated the Battle of Kursk. The deliberate defensive operation that the Soviets implemented to repel the German offensive is referred to as the Kursk Strategic...
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  • Kursk is a city in Russia. Kursk may also refer to: Kursk Oblast, a federal subject of Russia Kursk crater, a meteorite impact crater in Russia Kursk...
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  • The Battle of Kursk order of battle is a list of the significant units that fought in the Battle of Kursk between July and August 1943. Units smaller...
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    Kursk (Russian: Курск, IPA: [ˈkursk]) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and...
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    The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, 87 kilometres (54 mi) southeast of Kursk, in the Soviet Union, during the Second...
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  • the collapse. In 1993 K-141 was named Kursk after the Battle of Kursk in the 50-year anniversary of this battle. K-141 was inherited by Russia and launched...
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    183rd Rifle Division (category Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    defended it during the Battle of Kursk, as part of 69th Army. It saw heavy fighting south of Prokhorovka during the climax of the battle on July 11-12, and...
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    center is the city of Kursk. As of the 2021 Census, Kursk Oblast has a population of 1,082,458. The oblast, with an average elevation of 177–225 m (581–738 ft)...
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    4th Panzer Army (category Panzer armies of Germany in World War II)
    Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and the 1943 Battle of Kiev. The army was destroyed during the Battle of Stalingrad, but later...
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    Elefant (category World War II tank destroyers of Germany)
    competing Henschel design had been selected. Following their use at the battle of Kursk, in January to April 1944 the surviving Ferdinands received modifications...
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    4th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) (category War crimes of the Wehrmacht)
    in the battle of Orel, a series of almost World War I-like skirmishes, assaults and counter-assaults. It took part in the failed battle of Kursk, after...
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    Matsulenko, V. (1982). "The Battle on the Volga". Military History Journal – via DTIC. Cross, Robin (2002). The Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel 1943....
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    the defences of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad. He participated in planning several major offensives, including the Battle of Kursk, and Operation...
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    Nikolai Vatutin (category Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni)
    the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of the Voronezh Front during the Battle of Kursk. During the Soviet offensive to retake...
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    3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf (category Panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS)
    offensive aimed at reducing the Kursk salient. It was during February 1943 that the 3rd SS Panzer Regiment received a company of Tiger I heavy tanks. The attack...
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    13 March 2011. "Battle of Kursk". HISTORY. October 29, 2009. Retrieved 2022-03-24. Waxman, Olivia B. (Dec 16, 2019). "How the Battle of the Bulge Got Its...
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    days later, creating the salient which in July 1943 would lead to the Battle of Kursk. The German offensive cost the Red Army an estimated 90,000 casualties...
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  • Russian military deception (category Cold War history of the Soviet Union)
    Deception contributed to major Soviet victories including the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, and Operation Bagration (in Belarus): in these cases...
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    Panther tank (category Medium tanks of Germany)
    "overengineered". The Panther was rushed into combat at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 despite numerous unresolved technical problems, leading...
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    1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (category Panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS)
    was to form the spearhead of General Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, tasked with breaching the southern flank of the Kursk salient. Field Marshal Walter...
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    175th Rifle Division (category Infantry divisions of the Soviet Union in World War II)
    Soviet General Staff, The Battle of Kursk, Kindle ed., Book One, Part One, ch. 1 Soviet General Staff, The Battle of Kursk, Kindle ed., Book One, Part...
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    332nd Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) (category Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II)
    capabilities), and in the spring of 1943 it was transferred to the Eastern Front; it was disbanded after the Battle of Kursk. Generalleutnant Heinrich Recke...
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    Hermann Hoth (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords)
    attempt. Afterwards, Hoth was involved in the Third Battle of Kharkov as well as the Battle of Kursk, while increasingly suffering from near-burnout. He...
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    "Kursk". Air & Space Magazine. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 21 January 2016. Gordon 2008, p. 296. D. M. Glantz, J.M. House. The Battle of Kursk....
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    Paul Hausser (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords)
    II, he rose to the level of army group commander. He led Waffen-SS troops in the Third Battle of Kharkov, the Battle of Kursk and the Normandy Campaign...
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    Jagdgeschwader 52 (category Fighter wings of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945)
    massive Kursk offensive. By this time, German pilots faced the new generation of advanced Soviet fighter aircraft (such as the Yak-9 or La-5 of the La-5FN...
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    largest set-piece battle in the history of warfare was the Battle of Kursk. Pitched battles were first recorded during the prehistorical period as massed...
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  • David M. Glantz."The Battle of Kursk" Battistelli, Pier Paolo (2007). Panzer Divisions: The Blitzkrieg Years 1939-40 (Osprey Battle Orders 032). Osprey...
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  • the 3rd Ukrainian Front, documenting major engagements including the Battle of Kursk, the Odessa Offensive, the Vienna offensive, and fighting in Kiev,...
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