Battle of Kursk order of battle Battle of Kursk order of battle The Battle of Kursk order of battle is a list of the significant units that fought in the Battle of Kursk between July and August 1943. Units smaller than division size and Soviet aviation divisions are not shown in this order of battle. The following units were included in the Western Front, commanded by Colonel General Vasily Sokolovsky. The 50th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Ivan Boldin and included the following units. The 11th Guards Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Ivan Bagramyan, and included the following units. The 1st Air Army, commanded
Battle of Kursk as the spring rasputitsa had subsided. On 13 March, Hitler signed Operational Order No. 5, which authorised several offensives, including one against the Kursk salient. As the last Soviet resistance in Kharkov petered out, Manstein attempted to persuade Günther von Kluge, commander of Army Group Centre, to immediately attack the Central Front, which was defending the northern face of the salient. Kluge refused, believing that his forces were too weak to launch such an attack. Further Axis advances were blocked by Soviet forces that had been shifted down from the Central Front to the area north of Belgorod. By mid-April,