Human-cost band
hundreds of thousands of casualties, scholarly range; not a single tidy integer
Hundreds of thousands of casualties across July-August is the band. Do not use a single Prokhorovka integer as the war's tank-death record plaque.
Armour write-offs and repairable hulls are different columns -- a source of myth.
Bands
Dated span (5 July-23 August 1943)
Battle of Kursk is taught as 5 July-23 August 1943. 1943-03 and After 1991 are the usual poles.
Theatre (Kursk salient, southern and central Rus.)
Kursk salient, southern and central Russia is the geography of the ledger -- cities, seas, plants, or ministries as the file requires.
Citadel opens
1943-07-05: North and south attacks.
Kharkov again
1943-08-23: Rumyantsev payoff in the usual dating of the wider battle.
Regions
Kursk salient
Core theatre of Battle of Kursk (5 July-23 August 1943). Then delayed, repeatedly.
Salient forms
Spring 1943: After Kharkov, the bulge exists.
Citadel
5-16 Jul: The German throw.
Memory fight
After: Cartoons vs archives.
US / UK / AU / CA classrooms
Where Battle of Kursk (5 July-23 August 1943) is taught -- or skipped -- in US/UK/AU/CA surveys, often beside 1939-45 rather than beside Battle of Kursk's own calendar.
Korean comparative reader
Battle of Kursk (5 July-23 August 1943) is world-history in a Korean classroom, often paired with Inchon or Tsushima when the subject is a hinge battle -- theatre here is Kursk salient, southern and central Russia.
Key numbers
Span5 July-23 August 1943
Cost bandhundreds of thousands of casualties, sc.
TheatreKursk salient, southern and central Rus.
Hero articleBattle of Kursk
Makers
Erich von Manstein
Erich von Manstein (Army Group South) is a named maker of the Battle of Kursk story. The southern artist of German memoir; Citadel was not his preferred battle.
Walter Model
Walter Model (9th Army / north) is a named maker of the Battle of Kursk story. The northern attack that stalled -- a defensive specialist in an offensive job.
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Zhukov (Stavka) is a named maker of the Battle of Kursk story. Pushed the wait-and-defend concept with Vasilevsky.
Nikolai Vatutin
Nikolai Vatutin (Voronezh Front) is a named maker of the Battle of Kursk story. Southern defender; later killed by Ukrainian partisans in 1944 -- a sequel death.
Ivan Konev
Ivan Konev (Steppe Front) is a named maker of the Battle of Kursk story. The reserve that made depth real.
Hermann Hoth
Hermann Hoth (4th Panzer Army) is a named maker of the Battle of Kursk story. Southern spear; Prokhorovka sits on his map.
Villages in the salient paid a civilian bill under both air forces.
German elite panzer formations left the summer smaller for 1944's crises.