The beginning of the Battle of Kursk (1943.07)

Signaling the start of artillery preparation.

Guards rocket mortar salvos on the night of July 5, 1943. Shell exploding.

A burning convoy.

A fire in the yard of a village house.

Rocket mortar salvos, shell exploding.

German soldiers hide in trenches and dugouts from artillery shelling.

Panorama of the burning enemy front line.

Shells exploding on German positions.

German motorized units begin an offensive, armored personnel carriers with infantry go into battle.

German armored vehicles advance to firing positions and attack lines.

A German heavy tank on the march.

German six-barreled rocket mortars fire.

Soviet infantry takes up positions and counterattacks the enemy.

Artillerymen fire at the enemy.

German flamethrowers in a trench.

View of the burning front line.

A Soviet mortar crew fires at the enemy.

Attacking German tanks and infantry.

The commander of a German tank crew in the turret.

German tanks fire from a stationary position.

A Soviet tank is hit.

The German tank commander watches the targets through binoculars.

Soviet artillery returns fire.

German artillery fire.

Artillery duels, shell explosions.

Soviet artillery crews in action.

An armor-piercing crew with an anti-tank rifle takes up position.

A German machine gunner with binoculars in a trench.

German soldiers fire automatic weapons.

German tanks attack.

German infantry advances under cover of fire from tanks and assault guns.

A German assault gun fires.