The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia...

the German offensive operation in July 1943 against Soviet forces in the Kursk salient, proposed by Generalfeldmarschall Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein...

submarine Kursk. The submarine managed to reach Kursk but was unable to establish a seal to fully dock on the ninth compartment and effect rescue. Kursk submarine...

(12 August 2000); final note written before dying aboard sunken submarine Kursk "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney." — George Bernard Harris, American...

naval commander David Russell in Thomas Vinterberg's Kursk, a film about the true story of the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, in which he starred alongside...

Service of Ukraine, claimed that 16 PPDS had been used in an attack on the Kursk Vostochny Airport in Russia, with three shot down and the others targeting...

nationwide record. Annual precipitation is 546.4 mm (21.51 in) with around 170 wet days and light to moderate rainfall throughout the year. The precipitation...

blue battle dress, treated with “anti gas” material - once this uniform got wet, it became more grey than blue and became far too similar to the German grey...

Antonowka, fr. Antonovca, pl. Antónówka zwykla, ru. Antonoka Obîknovennaia) Kursk, Russia Before 1800 A very old Russian variety, often planted at dachas...

Weather Station Kurt (Wetter-Funkgerät Land-26) was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew of the Kriegsmarine in northern Labrador...

around 15,115 people were either killed or abducted during raids toward Kursk alone. The last major Crimean-Nogai raid were reportedly conducted toward...

Larry King in September 2000 asking what happened to the Russian submarine Kursk (K-141). Many criticized Putin for the cynicism perceived in this answer...

Kostroma, Kostroma Oblast Krasnogorsk and Moscow, Moscow Oblast (de facto) Kursk, Kursk Oblast Lipetsk, Lipetsk Oblast Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast Nizhny Novgorod...

over in 38. Smyth writes that as a result of Husky, Hitler suspended the Kursk offensive on 13 July. This was partly because of the performance of the...

up out of our hands by rescuers. The basket with our twins covered with wet cloths was snatched up out of my mother's hands and we were pushed upstairs...

Battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942–1943, and then in the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. Another German failure was the Siege of Leningrad...

forces had planned to resume the offensive by early January 1945, after the wet season rains and severe frosts, but those plans had to be postponed until...

of which were involved in the failed rescue attempt when the submarine Kursk sank on 12 August 2000. The Russian word "Priz" (“приз”) means "prize"....

offensive in the Soviet Union turned into a continual fallback. The Battle of Kursk, which involved the largest tank battle in history, was the last major German...

born on 15 April 1894, in Kalinovka, a village in what is now Russia's Kursk Oblast, near the present Ukrainian border. His parents, Sergei Khrushchev...

July–August 1943 with the launch of Operation Citadel, an assault on the Kursk salient. Approximately one million German troops confronted a Soviet force...

climate classification: BSk) with hot and humid summers, cool and occasionally wet winters, and strong winds all year long. However, unlike many other cities...

diarist Anne Frank. Due to its geographical location in what used to be wet peatland, the founding of Amsterdam is later than other urban centres in...

"Кольскую АЭС-2 начнут строить в 2028 году". Retrieved 9 December 2023. "Kursk's second unit retires after 45 years operation". Retrieved 31 January 2024...

relatively well-distributed throughout the year, although autumn is slightly wetter than other seasons. Ice storms near Lac Léman are normal in the winter:...

than in a typical Mediterranean climate. However, both June and August are wetter than February, which is unusual for the Mediterranean climate. This subtype...

(October 2021). "Germany's Total War: Combat and Occupation around the Kursk Salient, 1943". The Journal of Military History. 85 (4): 954–979. ISSN 0899-3718...

(1,200 sq mi) in 1970). The main production areas were in Ukraine, the Kursk and Orel regions of Russia, and near the Polish border. Since its inception...

cyclones results in warm, humid, and short summers and long, moderately cold wet winters. The climate of Saint Petersburg is close to that of Helsinki, although...

slightly wider temperature span between seasons, is cloudier and somewhat wetter, but differences are minor. Temperature and rainfall records have been kept...