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
Kursk by the Polovtsians in the 12th and 13th centuries and destroyed by Batu Khan around 1237. The city was rebuilt no later than 1283. It was ruled by Grand Duchy of Lithuania between 1360 and 1508. Kursk joined the centralized Russian state in 1508, becoming its southern border province. It was an important center of the corn trade with Ukraine and hosted an important fair, which took place annually under the walls of the monastery of Our Lady of Kursk. However, a century later the city re-emerged in a new place; date of re-considered grounds Kursk 1586 [9]. In 1596