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.
300,000 civilians used to construct eight lines of defences, including 9,000 km of trenches. 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. Their numerical superiority, nevertheless, didn’t prevent them to lose three times more men than the German.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”. In the peak of the battle of Kursk, Soviet forces ascended to nearly two million and a half. 300–400 tanks were lost by the Soviets, while only around 60 were lost by the Nazis. 
This made impulse the Germans to cancel Operation Citadel and began redeploying its forces to deal with new pressing developments elsewhere, wiith the Soviets regaining territory along a 2,000 km wide front after the battle. The 5th Guards Tank Army suffered significant losses in the attack, but succeeded in preventing the Wehrmacht from capturing Prokhorovka and breaking through the third defensive belt.
The battle started when the 5th Guards Tank Army of the Soviet Red Army attacked the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht in one of the largest tank battles in military history. The Battle of Prokhorovka formed part of the Kursk offensive, and was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, a location really close to Kursk. Panzer V “Panther” tank after the Battle of Prokhorovka, July 1943. Description Panther tank after the Battle of Kursk (36843574951).png
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