Kursk topographic map on EBAY

[Vor]

A wartime 1:50,000 five color topographic map of the
Prokhorovka region.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...item=1537048864

[Supervisor]

Link no worky!

[Don Doom]

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[Seagull]

Try:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1537048864

Looks pretty darn cool

No idea why the URL displays in a truncated form, but the link appears valid in Netscape

[Don Doom]

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[Henri]

Just to nitpick, that is a map of Prokhorovka (Alexandrovsky) and not Kursk. At least that is what the Russian label says...

Henri

[Belisarius]

To nitpick more, isn't the Prokhorovka area the one we're thinking of when we say "Kursk" ?

B'sides, why does it say "Aleksandrovskij" in bold? Was that the Soviet name?

[Henri]

Originally posted by Belisarius
To nitpick more, isn't the Prokhorovka area the one we're thinking of when we say "Kursk" ?

My understanding is that Prokhorovka is the name of the small town near where the famous tank battle took place, which was only a small part of the whole "Battle of Kursk" or "Operation Citadel" area, which refers to the larger city nearby.

Henri

[Belisarius]

Originally posted by Henri


My understanding is that Prokhorovka is the name of the small town near where the famous tank battle took place, which was only a small part of the whole "Battle of Kursk" or "Operation Citadel" area, which refers to the larger city nearby.

Henri

Yes, the Operation Citadel area was alot bigger:



The tank battle was all over the place, but the most famous fighting was along the ridge leading to Prokhorovka. This area is the southern tip of the "pincher" around Kursk, where the SS Panzer Corps of IV Panzer Army ran into too much trouble, IIRC.

The northern pincher movement went much better initially, but was also stopped.

My point was that at least in my mind, "Kursk" means the Prokhorovka fighting, altough the operation was MUCH larger than that.

I'll shut up now