Operation Kutuzov
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Operation Kutuzov was the first of the two counteroffensives launched by the Red Army as part of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation. It commenced on 12 July 1943, in the Central Russian Upland, against Army Group Center of the German Heer. The operation was named after General Mikhail Kutuzov, the Russian general credited with saving Russia from Napoleon during the French invasion of Russia in 1812. Operation Kutuzov was one of two large-scale Soviet operations launched as counteroffensives against Operation Citadel. The Operation began on 12 July and ended on 18 August 1943 with the capture of Orel and collapse of the Orel bulge.
Operation Kutuzov | |||||||
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Part of the Eastern Front of World War II | |||||||
Soviet T-34 tanks enter Orel, 1943 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Germany | Soviet Union | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Walter Model Lothar Rendulic Günther von Kluge Robert von Greim |
Konstantin Rokossovsky Ivan Bagramyan Vasili Sokolovsky Markian Popov | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
300,700 men[1] 625 tanks and assault guns[1] 610 aircraft[1] 5,500 guns[1] |
2,409 tanks and assault guns[2] 2,220[3]–3,023[2] aircraft 26,379 guns[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
86,454 men[4]
unknown guns 218 aircraft[6] |
892 guns lost[9] 1,014 aircraft destroyed[9] |