Victory near Kursk: Stories. Alekseev S.P.

The summer of 1943 stood. Two years have passed since the day when the Nazis attacked our homeland.

Much has changed over these two years. Many glorious victories were already on the account of our army. She defeated the Nazis in the great Moscow battle. She inflicted a crushing blow to the invaders near the city of Stalingrad.

After the defeat near Stalingrad and in the Caucasus, the Nazis rolled away for many kilometers to the west. They retreated in the south, were even further driven away from Moscow. Among many other cities, our troops liberated the large industrial city of Kursk. Here they crashed deep into fascist defense. The so -called Kursk ledge, the Kursk arc formed.

The Nazis dreamed of revenge. They wanted to take revenge for defeats near Moscow and under Stalingrad and still hoped for new victories.

“Kursk arc - this is the best place to strike a crushing blow to the Soviet troops,” the fascist generals reasoned.

On July 5, 1943, the Nazis went on the offensive.

The Battle of Kursk was one of the most grandiose battles of the Great Patriotic War. About the exploits of Soviet soldiers in the battle on the Kursk arc and these stories are written.

The author - a famous children's writer, participant in the Great Patriotic War - talks about battles on the Kursk arc (1943). For primary school age.