Map Of The Battle Of Kursk. After their defeat at stalingrad, the germans managed to stabilize their front once again and mounted a third summer offensive. The kursk nuclear power station, one of the world’s oldest, is located in the town of kurchatov, about 70km (40 miles) east of sudzha.

Satellite map of kursk with sights of the city. Gathering all the forces they could muster, with thousands of tanks and almost one million men, the germans struck the soviet line along the kursk salient.