The Activities of the Authorities during the Preparation and Holding the Battle of Kursk

The article on the basis of archival documents, collections of decisions of state bodies, memoirs of famous military leaders — participants of the Battle of Kursk, materials of the newspaper Pravda and the magazine “Red Army”, selected works of state and political figures examines the organizing activities of party and Soviet bodies: GKO, Stavka VGK, SNK of the USSR, People’s Commissars of the USSR, the Military Councils of the fronts and armies, aimed at consolidating and mobilizing the entire Soviet people and the national-economic complex to defeat the German cofascist troops on the Kursk Bulge. During the analysis of archival sources and memories of military leaders, the author comes to the conclusion that rear workers, sacrificing time, straining their strength and capabilities, worked for the front with renewed energy in order to provide the Army in good time and in sufficient quantities with guns, tanks, self-propelled artillery, airplanes, machine guns, assault rifles, mortars, ammunition, equipment, food, etc.

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