Offensive on the Kursk Bulge (1943)

Soviet tanks during the offensive of the Steppe Front troops on the Kursk Bulge.

Duel of Soviet and German tanks.

Soviet and German tanks go into a frontal attack.

A German self-propelled gun opens fire.

A German tanker surveys the terrain through binoculars, leaning out of the hatch.

Tank battles on the Steppe and Central Fronts.

Exploding shells, burning armored vehicles.

Destroyed German tanks, the body of a German soldier.

German armored vehicles turned into scrap metal.

Map of the front on the Kursk Bulge with plans of the Soviet command.

The body of a German tanker next to a destroyed tank.

A stunned and shell-shocked German artilleryman sits on the frame of a destroyed gun.

A Soviet artillery crew fires at the enemy.

Barrel and rocket artillery of the Red Army fires at the enemy.

Map with the plan of Operation Kutuzov.

Soviet bombers are flying.

Fires on the ground (above).

Dropping bombs, explosions on the ground.

Soviet and German artillery firing, shooting at night.

Soviet infantry rushes to attack after artillery preparation.

Members of the headquarters of one of the fronts observe the development of the offensive.

Aviation in the air.

Tanks with troops on their armor pass by, infantry in the trenches.

Tanks and aviation on the offensive.

German soldiers take up positions in a trench, prepare for defense.

A German officer at a field telephone.

A German artillery crew takes up a position around the corner of a barn.

Soviet infantry attacks with tank support.

View of the battlefield.

A flight of bombers flies by.

Commander of the Central Front K.K. Rokossovsky observes the progress of the battle from the forward positions.

Soviet tanks and infantry attack, a German self-propelled gun is burning.

A German anti-tank crew takes up a position.

An SS officer at a field telephone.

Orderlies carry a wounded man.

Soviet tank landing on armor.

Map of Operation Rumyantsev with plans to defeat the Kharkov enemy group.

Soviet artillerymen fire at the enemy.

Commander of the Voronezh Front Vatutin N.F. at the command post, planes in the sky.

Soviet infantry overcomes barbed wire.

Red Army soldiers attack enemy positions, light machine gun abandoned by the Germans.

Attacking tanks with infantry on armor.

Soviet aviation in the sky.

Infantry attacking with tank support.

Commander of the Steppe Front Konev I.S. at the command post, Konev's face.

Aviation, tanks and infantry of the Red Army attack the enemy.

A tank passes the body of a German soldier.

A pole with directional signs in German.

A crew of an ML-20 howitzer on tracks passes along the road.

A shell exploding.

View of a burning barn from the driver's hatch of a tank.

Street fighting on the outskirts of Belgorod.

Soviet tanks burst onto the main street of Belgorod on August 5, 1943. The city's population greets Soviet soldiers.

Red banners are installed over buildings in Belgorod.

View of a brick wall riddled with shells.

City residents greet the passing Soviet infantry, faces of Red Army soldiers.

A red flag on one of the balconies.

Soviet tanks on the march.

Scouts run along a burning street in Kharkov.

Views of a burning building.

View of one of the streets of Kharkov.

Units of the Red Army enter Kharkov on August 23, 1943. Residents of Kharkov greet the liberators, giving them bouquets of flowers.

Red Army soldiers help children get out of the underground shelter in which they were hiding from the Germans.

Red Army soldiers with children in their arms.

A political officer distributes newspapers to people.

A rifle division of the Red Army makes a foot march.

Crosses on the graves of German soldiers.

A pile of scrap metal left over from German military equipment and taken away for remelting.

Sending a fragment of a German plane's wing to the furnace.

Publications in Soviet and foreign newspapers about the victory at Kursk.

Red Army soldiers with flowers in their hands march in formation, the face of the standard-bearer.

Residents of Orel greet the Red Army.

Girls give soldiers and officers flowers, the face of one of the officers.

A soldier carries a girl in his arms.

Salute over Moscow in honor of the victory at Kursk.