"A fiery arch": 80 years to Kursk fight

In the summer of 1943 Hitlerite command expected to prevail a revenge on the sovetskogermansky front for defeat near Volgograd. The victory over Red Army — let and on one site, near Kursk — could, according to the German management, lead to the subsequent approach of the German armies on yugovostochny or severovostochny (to Moscow)...