Crossword clues for kursk
Wikipedia
Kursk is a city in Russia.
Kursk may also refer to:
- Kursk Oblast, a federal subject of Russia
- Kursk crater, a meteorite impact crater in Russia
- Kursk Magnetic Anomaly
- Battle of Kursk, the 1943 battle that was Nazi Germany's last major offensive in the east and one of the largest tank battles in history
- Our Lady of Kursk, an Eastern Orthodox icon
- KYPCK, a music group
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Russian submarine Kursk
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Kursk submarine disaster (2000)
- Kursk (play), a play inspired by the sinking of the Kursk
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Kursk submarine disaster (2000)
- Kursk (inhabited locality), several inhabited localities in Russia
Kursk is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym Rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German struggle during World War II and the site of the largest tank battle in history. Population:
Kursk is a play by the British playwright Bryony Lavery. It is inspired by the 2000 sinking of the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk and set on a British submarine on a covert mission in the Barents Sea.
Kursk is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
Urban localities- Kursk, a city in Kursk Oblast
- Kursk, Altai Krai, a selo in Kursky Selsoviet of Kulundinsky District in Altai Krai;
- Kursk (settlement), Leningrad Oblast, a settlement in Kurskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Volosovsky District in Leningrad Oblast;
- Kursk (village), Leningrad Oblast, a village in Kurskoye Settlement Municipal Formation of Volosovsky District in Leningrad Oblast;
Usage examples of "kursk".
A veteran of the fighting on Planet Kursk as well as the Malan cluster, he had numerous decorations, including the ITAA Silver Star, the highest award available for conspicuous courage in the face of enemy fire.
Those brilliant, terrifying weeks on Kursk, they had been the most intoxicating days of her life.
A pincer movement from the north and south, aimed at Kursk, could surround and decimate the cream of the Soviet forces.
Citadel the looming, titanic battle for Kursk on the Eastern Front consumed the hours.
Verdun and what awaited Aryan manhood in the trenches of the Kursk bulge.
Instead, their available forces were to concentrate on one smashing blow against the Kursk salient, a segment of the front line that ballooned westward into the German mid-section.
The plan called for two immense forces to blast across the Russian defenses Field Marshal von Kluge from the north, Field Marshal von Manstein out of the south and converge in the center at the city of Kursk, pinching off the Soviet bulge.
The Kursk bulge was clearly the best place for an attack, a pincer action was the plain solution.
He stabbed his finger at the maps spread across his conference table, aerial photos of Soviet defenses in the Kursk region.
Stalin was also pursuing a new, heavier tank design, the KV-i, but these had not yet made any impression in battle, and as far as Dimitri knew there were none in the Kursk salient.
Vera had her own boyfriend, a navigator in a Boston A-20 one of the Lend-Lease bombers from America based on the northern shoulder of the Kursk pocket.
These were painted tan for the coming Kursk campaign, Operation Citadel.
The tanks were marked for delivery to the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division on the southern flank of the Kursk bulge.
He would do it in the days coming soon, in Russia, at the battle for Kursk, somehow.
The only hope for Luis Ruiz de Vega was if the Americans would hold off their invasion in Europe, if the German assault on Kursk would go well, then he could get his hands on what he came to Russia for the first time with the Blue Division, and why he was here again with the SS on this train, rumbling across the border in the pit of night, late, tired, and once more hungry, talking with this fat officer.