The Battle of the Kursk Salient ended on August 23, 1943. The battle became one the milestone events of World War II. It brought together 4 million men and officers on both sides, more than 10,000 tanks and 11,000 warplanes. The Battle of the Kursk Salient marked a turning point in fighting on the Eastern Front. TASS remembers the largest tank battle in history.
Russia marks 75th anniversary of its watershed victory at the Battle of Kursk
August 23, 2018, marks 75 years since the end of a landmark operation of World War II, the Battle of the Kursk Salient
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Soviet Marshall Georgy Zhukov seen outside the city of Kursk, the scene of the WW II biggest tank battle, 1943
© Georgy Lipskerov/TASS The Battle of Kursk brought together 4 million men and officers on both sides, more than 10,000 tanks and 11,000 warplanes
© I. Ozersky/TASS Soldiers of the Red Army talking to residents of the village of Prokhorovka, 1943
© Oleg Sizov, Yuri Nabatov/TAS German military column attacked by Soviet aviation, 1943
© B. Levshin/TAS The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on July 12 near Prokhorovka, 1943, 87 kilometres southeast of Kursk in the Soviet Union,
© TASS Soviet artillerymen shooting Germans during the Battle of Kursk
© TASS Soviet soldiers engaging e in local fighting approaching the city of Dmitrov-Orlovsky in the Battle of Kursk
© Yakov Khalip/TASS The Battle of the Kursk Salient marked a turning point in fighting on the Eastern Front
© I. Ozersky/TASS German gunner sitting near destroyed artillery gun, 1943
© TASS Kursk partisans meeting with Soviet soldiers, 1943
© TASS Wreckage of German military equipment and transport after the Wehrmacht defeat in the Battle of Kursk, 1943
© TASS Citizens clearing Lenin street of debris in Kursk, 1943
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