The film tells about one of the most significant battles of the Great Patriotic War - the Battle of Kursk.
Part 1 - 40th Anniversary of the Battle of Kursk. Memories of veterans, local residents, newsreels. Part 2 - The Battle of Kursk - Chronicle.




Kursk region.
May 9. Memorial to commemorate the victory of the Soviet Army in the Battle of Kursk - general, general.
Flowers are laid at the slab with the names of those killed in the war - general.
An old woman is standing - general.
A war veteran, in a sailor's uniform, salutes - general.
Trenches - general, Poland.
Belgorod region.
Construction explosions - general.
Apple tree blossoms are falling - general.
Trucks, KAMAZ trucks, are driving along the highway - general, Poland.
Industrial landscape of the Brezhnev Iron and Steel Works - general, general.
A drilling rig is working - general, general, Poland.
A sapper is working with a mine detector - general.
A hand is digging up shells - general.
Shells are lying, extracted from the ground - general, Poland.
Ekaterina Kostina, a native of the village of Teplovo near Mtsensk, arrives in her homeland with her daughter Tatyana - Wed, general.
The cellar of the destroyed house where scouts found Katya and her brother during the war - Wed, general.
Kostina with her daughter at the grave of a Hero of the Patriotic War, laying flowers at the grave - Wed, general.
Newsreel from 1943: German planes in the sky - Wed, general.
Pilots in the cockpit - Wed, general.
The plane's hatch opens, bombs fly - Wed, general.
A village after an air raid - Wed, general.
Houses are burning - Wed, general.
Women cry over the dead - Wed, general.
A wheat field is burning - Wed, general.
German soldiers are driving down the village street - Wed, general.
Milking a cow - Wed, general.
They are swimming - Wed, general.
German officers are drinking tea and resting - Wed, general.
Policemen are leading a captured partisan - Wed, general.
A column of German tanks is driving along the road, soldiers are sitting on a tank - Wed, general.
German soldiers are mining a bridge - Wed, general.
Explosions - Wed, general.
Refugee convoys - Wed, general.
German headquarters - Wed, general. A. Hitler and the generals are discussing the plan for the upcoming Operation Citadel, leaning over a map - Wed, general.
Cartoon: a map of the German offensive in the Kursk and Belgorod regions - Wed.
Newsreel of 1943: Partisans and soldiers are reading a newspaper in the forest - Wed, general.
Panic in a German division during the offensive of the Soviet Army - Wed, general.




Newsreel 1943: Evening landscape of Kursk region - medium, general.
Barbed wire fences - medium, general.
Soldier looking through binoculars - medium, general.
Night before the battle on the Kursk Bulge - medium, general.
Soviet soldiers in a trench - medium, general.
Military equipment in combat readiness - medium, general.
A nervous German soldier - medium, general.
Tiger and Ferdinand tanks - medium, general.
Fragments of the battle on the Kursk Bulge: aerial battles - medium; planes flying - medium, general; guns firing - medium, general; explosions - medium, general; soldier throwing a grenade - medium, general; tanks burning - medium, general; soldiers running after a tank - medium, general; Katyushas are firing - Wed, general.
Operation Citadel fails - German soldiers flee - Wed, general.
Voronezh Front commander General N.F. Vatutin, Steppe Front commander General I.S. Konev; Central Front commander General K.K. Rokossovsky, Bryansk Front commander General Popov are at command posts - Wed, general.
Cartoon: map of military offensives of the Soviet Army in the Kursk, Oryol and other directions - Wed.
Newsreel of 1943: Soldiers crossing a river on rafts - Wed, general; carrying weapons and ammunition - Wed, general.
Explosion of a stable - general.
Simultaneous offensive of tanks and Soviet aircraft in the Battle of Prokhorovka - Wed, general.
Soldiers running after tanks - Wed, general; airplane diving - Wed, general; pilot in the airplane cockpit - Wed.
Burning village - Wed, general; soldiers running and shooting - Wed, general.
Liberation of Orel: fighting in the city, houses on fire - Wed, general; explosions - Wed, general; broken equipment on fire - Wed, general.
Soviet tanks in the liberated city of Orel - Wed, general.
Residents greeting the liberating soldiers, kissing, crying - Wed, general.
An old woman with an icon blessing a soldier - Wed, general.
Liberation of prisoners of war - Wed.
A soldier throws down the German flag and tears it to pieces - Wed, general.
A red flag flutters on the pediment of a building - Wed, general.
A panorama of destroyed Belgorod - Wed, general.
German units at the bombed-out crossing - medium, general.
General plans of Belgorod - medium, panorama (from the movement).
Schoolgirls-graduates are walking along the street - medium.
Fountain near the building - medium.
General plans of Kursk; city square - general.
Passers-by on the streets of the city - general.
A child is running - medium.
Monument to the heroes of the Patriotic War - medium, general.
Eternal Flame - medium.