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The Battle of Kursk (July 5 - August 23, 1943; also known as the Battle of the Kursk Bulge) was a combination of strategic defensive (July 5-23) and offensive (July 12 — August 23) operations of the Red Army in World War II in order to disrupt a major offensive of the Wehrmacht forces and defeat its strategic grouping. In terms of its scale, the forces and means involved, tension, results and military-political consequences, it is one of the key battles of the Second World War. In historiography, it is considered the largest (greatest) tank battle in history. It was attended by about 2 million people, 6 thousand tanks, 4 thousand aircraft; the battle paved the way for the great Soviet offensive of 1944-45.
The battle is the most important part of the strategic plan of the summer-autumn campaign of 1943, according to Soviet and Russian historiography, includes: Kursk strategic defensive operation (July 5-23), Orel (July 12 — August 18) and Belgorod-Kharkov (August 3-23) strategic offensive operations. The battle lasted 50 days. The German side called the offensive part of the battle Operation Citadel.
As a result of the offensive according to the Kutuzov plan, the Oryol grouping of German troops was defeated, and the Oryol strategic bridgehead occupied by it was liquidated. As a result of Operation Rumyantsev, the Belgorod-Kharkov grouping of Germans was defeated, and the corresponding bridgehead was also liquidated. The radical change in the course of the Great Patriotic War, begun at Stalingrad, was completed in the Battle of Kursk and the Battle of the Dnieper, and in the subsequent Tehran Conference on the initiative of F. Roosevelt had already discussed the plan he had personally drawn up "2 months ago for the dismemberment of Germany into five states."
After the end of the battle, the strategic initiative finally passed to the side of the Red Army, which continued to liberate the country from the German invaders and conducted mainly offensive operations until the end of the war. During the retreat from the territory of the USSR, the Wehrmacht conducted a "scorched earth" tactic.
August 23, the day of the defeat of German troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk, is one of the days of military glory of Russia. Belgorod, Kursk and Orel became the first cities in Russia to be awarded the honorary title of "City of Military Glory"