Operation Details

Orel-Kursk Defensive Operation

The 'Orel-Kursk Defensive Operation' was the half of the Soviet 'Kursk Strategic Defensive Operation' to hold the 'Zitadelle' offensive of the Generaloberst Walter Model’s 9th Army on the northern face of the Kursk salient (5/11 July 1943).

Basic Overview

Start date: 5 July 1943
End date: 11 July 1943
Scope: Medium
Nature: Land, Land/air battle
Status: Implemented

Theater

  • Eastern Front

Nations Involved

Protagonists
  • USSR
Antagonists
  • Germany

Leadership

Protagonists
  • Galanin, Ivan V.
  • Pukhov, Nikolai P.
  • Rokossovsky, Konstantin K.
  • Romanenko, Prokofi L.
Antagonists
  • Friessner, Johannes
  • Lemelsen, Joachim
  • Model, Walter

Formation

Protagonists
  • Soviet 13th Army Soviet 48th Army Soviet 70th Army Soviet Central Front
Antagonists
  • German 9th Army German Heeresgruppe 'Mitte' German XLVII Panzerkorps

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