Approximately 5,000 Soviet tanks vs approx.575,000 initial reserve forces at the Steppe Front.Soviet defences were as deep as almost 200 miles in places.All other civilians within 25 miles of the front were evacuated.The battle took place when German and Soviet forces confronted each other on the Eastern Front. 300,000 civilians used to construct eight lines of defences, including 9,000 km of trenches A Russian T-34 tank rolls through a burning village during the Battle of Kursk, July 1943.German advance halted at 10 miles in the north and 30 miles in the south.Salient was 150 miles across and 100 miles deep into German-held territory.The battle was fought between 5 July to 23 August.The battle took place in July and August 1943, opening with a German offensive and culminating in a momentous Soviet victory. The Wehrmacht was outnumbered and deficient in weapons in comparison to the Red Army, thus the German attempt to retake the initiative by attacking the vulnerable salient around Kursk represented a real gamble. In a typical act of grandstanding, presumably to reassure the rest of the Axis as defeats began to mount up, Hitler announced on 15 April 1943 that victory in the Battle of Kursk would be “a beacon for the whole world”.
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