The Battle of Kursk order of battle is a list of the significant units that fought in the Battle of Kursk between July and August 1943.

Units smaller than division size and Soviet aviation divisions are not shown in this order of battle.

German

Army Group Centre (Günther von Kluge)

2nd Army (Walter Weiß)

VII Corps (Ernst-Eberhard Hell)
26th Infantry Division
68th Infantry Division
75th Infantry Division
88th Infantry Division
XIII Corps (Erich Straube)
82nd Infantry Division
327th Infantry Division
340th Infantry Division

9th Army (Walther Model)

XX Corps (Rudolf Freiherr von Roman)
45th Infantry Division
72nd Infantry Division
137th Infantry Division
251st Infantry Division
XLVI Panzer Corps (Hans Zorn)
7th Infantry Division
31st Infantry Division
102nd Infantry Division
258th Infantry Division
XLVII Panzer Corps (Joachim Lemelsen)
2nd Panzer Division
9th Panzer Division
20th Panzer Division
6th Infantry Division
XLI Panzer Corps (Josef Harpe) 
18th Panzer Division
86th Infantry Division
292nd Infantry Division
XXIII Corps (Johannes Frießner)
216th Infantry Division
383rd Infantry Division
78th Assault Division
Army Reserve
4th Panzer Division
10th Panzergrenadier Division
12th Panzer Division

2nd Panzer Army (Erich-Heinrich Clößner)

XXXV Corps (Lothar Rendulic)
34th Infantry Division
56th Infantry Division
262nd Infantry Division
299th Infantry Division
LIII Corps (Friedrich Gollwitzer)
208th Infantry Division
211th Infantry Division
293rd Infantry Division
25th Panzergrenadier Division
LV Corps (Erich Jaschke)
110th Infantry Division
134th Infantry Division
296th Infantry Division
339th Infantry Division
Army Reserve
112th Infantry Division

Army Group Reserve 
5th Panzer Division
8th Panzer Division

Army Group South (Erich von Manstein)

4th Panzer Army (Hermann Hoth)

LII Corps (Eugen Ott)
57th Infantry Division
255th Infantry Division
332nd Infantry Division
XLVIII Panzer Corps (Otto von Knobelsdorff)
3rd Panzer Division
11th Panzer Division
Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland
167th Infantry Division
II SS Panzer Corps (Paul Hausser)
1st SS Panzergrenadier Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
2nd SS Panzergrenadier Division Das Reich
3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf

Army Detachment Kempf (Werner Kempf)

III Panzer Corps (Hermann Breith)
6th Panzer Division
7th Panzer Division
19th Panzer Division
168th Infantry Division
XI Army Corps (Erhard Raus)
106th Infantry Division
320th Infantry Division
XLII Corps (Franz Mattenklott)
39th Infantry Division
161st Infantry Division
282nd Infantry Division

Army Group Reserve 

XXIV Panzer Corps (Walter Nehring)
5th SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking
17th Panzer Division

Luftwaffe

 Luftflotte 4 (4th Air Fleet) (Otto Deßloch as both commander-in-chief and chief of staff) - Air support for Army Group South
 VIII Fliegerkorps (8th Air Corps)
 Luftflotte 6 (6th Air Fleet) (Robert Ritter von Greim as commander-in-chief and Friedrich Kless as chief of staff) - Air support for Army Group Center
1. Flieger Division (1st Air Division)

Soviet

Western Front
The following units were included in the Western Front, commanded by Colonel General Vasily Sokolovsky.

50th Army
The 50th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Ivan Boldin and included the following units.
38th Rifle Corps (Major General Alexey Tereshkov)
17th Rifle Division
326th Rifle Division
413th Rifle Division
49th Rifle Division
64th Rifle Division
212th Rifle Division
324th Rifle Division

11th Guards Army
The 11th Guards Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Ivan Bagramyan, and included the following units.
8th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Pyotr Malyshev)
11th Guards Rifle Division
26th Guards Rifle Division
83rd Guards Rifle Division
16th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Afanasy Lapshov (killed 13 July), Major General Ivan Fedyunkin from 22 July)
1st Guards Rifle Division
16th Guards Rifle Division
31st Guards Rifle Division
169th Rifle Division
36th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Alexander Ksenofontov)
5th Guards Rifle Division
18th Guards Rifle Division
84th Guards Rifle Division
108th Rifle Division
217th Rifle Division
8th Breakthrough Artillery Corps (Lieutenant General Nikolai Salichko)
3rd Breakthrough Artillery Division
6th Breakthrough Artillery Division
14th Artillery Division
14th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
17th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
48th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

1st Air Army
The 1st Air Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Mikhail Gromov, included the following units.
2nd Assault Aviation Corps (Major General Vasily Stepichev)
2nd Fighter Aviation Corps (Lieutenant General Alexey Blagoveshchensky)
8th Fighter Aviation Corps (Major General Fyodor Zherebchenko)

Front assets
The following units were directly subordinated to the front.
371st Rifle Division
1st Tank Corps (Major General Vasily Butkov)
5th Tank Corps (Major General Mikhail Sakhno)

Bryansk Front
The Bryansk Front was commanded by Colonel General Markian Popov, and consisted of the following units.

3rd Army
The 3rd Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Alexander Gorbatov, and included the following units.
41st Rifle Corps (Major General Viktor Urbanovich)
235th Rifle Division
308th Rifle Division
380th Rifle Division
269th Rifle Division
283rd Rifle Division
342nd Rifle Division
20th Breakthrough Artillery Division
24th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

61st Army 
The 61st Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Pavel Belov and included the following units.
9th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Arkady Boreyko)
12th Guards Rifle Division
76th Guards Rifle Division
77th Guards Rifle Division
97th Rifle Division
110th Rifle Division
336th Rifle Division
356th Rifle Division
415th Rifle Division
13th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

63rd Army
The 63rd Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Vladimir Kolpakchi, and included the following units.
35th Rifle Corps (headquarters only, Major General Viktor Zholudev)
40th Rifle Corps (headquarters only, Major General Vladimir Kuznetsov)
5th Rifle Division
41st Rifle Division
129th Rifle Division
250th Rifle Division
287th Rifle Division
348th Rifle Division
397th Rifle Division
28th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

15th Air Army
The 15th Air Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Nikolai Naumenko, and included the following units.

1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps (Lieutenant General Yevgeny Beletsky) 
3rd Assault Aviation Corps (Major General Mikhail Gorlachenko)

Front Assets
The following units were directly subordinated to the front.
25th Rifle Corps (Major General Pyotr Pererva)
186th Rifle Division
283rd Rifle Division
362nd Rifle Division
1st Guards Tank Corps (Major General Mikhail Panov)
2nd Breakthrough Artillery Corps (to 63rd Army, Lieutenant General Mikhail Barsukov)
13th Breakthrough Artillery Division
15th Breakthrough Artillery Division
3rd Guards Mortar Division
7th Breakthrough Artillery Corps (to 61st Army, Major General Pavel Korolkov)
16th Breakthrough Artillery Division
17th Breakthrough Artillery Division
2nd Guards Mortar Division

Central Front
The Central Front was commanded by Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky, and consisted of the following units:

13th Army
The 13th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Nikolai Pukhov, and included the following units:
17th Guards Rifle Corps (Lieutenant General Andrei Bondarev)
6th Guards Rifle Division (Major General Dmitry Onuprienko)
70th Guards Rifle Division
75th Guards Rifle Division
18th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Ivan Afonin)
2nd Guards Airborne Division
3rd Guards Airborne Division (Colonel Ivan Konev)
4th Guards Airborne Division
15th Rifle Corps (Major General Ivan Lyudnikov)
8th Rifle Division
74th Rifle Division
148th Rifle Division
29th Rifle Corps (Major General Afanasy Slyshkin)
15th Rifle Division
81st Rifle Division
307th Rifle Division (Major General Mikhail Yenshin)
4th Breakthrough Artillery Corps (Major General Nikolai Ignatov)
5th Breakthrough Artillery Division
12th Breakthrough Artillery Division
5th Guards Mortar Division
1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
25th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

48th Army
The 48th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Prokofy Romanenko, and including the following units:
42nd Rifle Corps (Major General Konstantin Kolganov)
16th Rifle Division
202nd Rifle Division
399th Rifle Division
73rd Rifle Division
137th Rifle Division
143rd Rifle Division
170th Rifle Division
16th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

60th Army
The 60th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Ivan Chernyakhovsky and included the following units:
24th Rifle Corps (Major General Nikolay Kiryukhin)
42nd Rifle Division
112th Rifle Division
30th Rifle Corps (Major General Grigory Lazko)
121st Rifle Division
141st Rifle Division
322nd Rifle Division
55th Rifle Division

65th Army
The 65th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Pavel Batov, and was composed of the following units:
18th Rifle Corps (Major General Ivan Ivanov)
69th Rifle Division
149th Rifle Division
246th Rifle Division
27th Rifle Corps (Major General Filipp Cherokmanov)
60th Rifle Division
193rd Rifle Division
37th Guards Rifle Division
181st Rifle Division
194th Rifle Division
354th Rifle Division

70th Army
The 70th Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Ivan Galanin, and included the following units:
28th Rifle Corps (Major General Alexander Nechayev)
132nd Rifle Division
211th Rifle Division
280th Rifle Division
102nd Rifle Division
106th Rifle Division
140th Rifle Division
162nd Rifle Division
175th Rifle Division
1st Guards Artillery Division
12th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

2nd Tank Army 
The 2nd Tank Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Alexey Rodin, who was replaced by Lieutenant General Semyon Bogdanov on 2 August. It consisted of the following units:
 3rd Tank Corps (Major General Maxim Sinenko)
16th Tank Corps (Major General Vasily Grigoryev)

16th Air Army 
The 16th Air Army was commanded by Lieutenant General Sergei Rudenko, and included the following units:
3rd Bomber Aviation Corps (Major General Afanasy Karavatsky)
6th Mixed Aviation Corps (Major General Ivan Antoshkin)
6th Fighter Aviation Corps (Major General Yevgeny Erlykin)

Front Assets
The following units were directly subordinated to the front:
9th Tank Corps (Major General Semyon Bogdanov)
19th Tank Corps (Major General Ivan Vasilyev)
10th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

Voronezh Front (Nikolai Vatutin)

6th Guards Army (Ivan Chistyakov)

22nd Guards Rifle Corps
67th Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksei Baksov)
71st Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Ivan Sivakov)
90th Guards Rifle Division
23rd Guards Rifle Corps
51st Guards Rifle Division
52nd Guards Rifle Division
375th Rifle Division
Independent 89th Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Mikhail Seryugin)

7th Guards Army (Mikhail Shumilov)

24th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Nikolai Vasilyev)
15th Guards Rifle Division (Major General Yemelyan Vasilenko)
36th Guards Rifle Division (Major General Mikhail Denisenko)
72nd Guards Rifle Division (Major General Anatoly Losev)
25th Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Gany Safiullin)
73rd Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Semyon Kozak)
78th Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksandr Skvortsov)
81st Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Ivan Morozov)
Independent 213th Rifle Division (Colonel Ivan Buslayev)

38th Army (Nikandr Chibisov)

50th Rifle Corps
167th Rifle Division
232nd Rifle Division
340th Rifle Division
51st Rifle Corps (Petr Avdeenko)
180th Rifle Division
240th Rifle Division
Independent 204th Rifle Division

40th Army (Kirill Moskalenko)

47th Rifle Corps (Afanasy Gryaznov)
161st Rifle Division (Major General Pyotr Tertyshny)
206th Rifle Division (Colonel Viktor Rutko)
237th Rifle Division (Major General Pyotr Dyakonov)
52nd Rifle Corps (Frants Perkhorovich)
100th Rifle Division (Colonel Nikolai Bezzubov (mw), Colonel Pyotr Tsygankov)
219th Rifle Division (Major General Vasily Kotelnikov)
309th Rifle Division (Colonel Dmitry Dryomin)
Independent 184th Rifle Division (Colonel Samuil Tsukarev)

69th Army (Vasily Kryuchenkin)

48th Rifle Corps (Major General Zinovy Rogozny)
107th Rifle Division (Colonel Pyotr Bezhko)
183rd Rifle Division (Major General Aleksandr Kostitsyn)
305th Rifle Division (Colonel Aleksandr Vasilyev)
49th Rifle Corps (Major General Gury Terentyev)
111th Rifle Division (Colonel Mikhail Bushin)
270th Rifle Division (Colonel Ivan Belyayev)

1st Tank Army (Mikhail Katukov)

6th Tank Corps (Andrei Getman)
31st Tank Corps
3rd Mechanized Corps (Semyon Krivoshein)

2nd Air Army (Stepan Krasovsky)

1st Bombing Aviation Corps
1st Assault Aviation Corps
4th Fighter Aviation Corps
5th Fighter Aviation Corps

Front Assets

35th Guards Rifle Corps
92nd Guards Rifle Division
93rd Guards Rifle Division
94th Guards Rifle Division
2nd Guards Tank Corps
5th Guards Tank Corps

Steppe Front
The following units were part of the Steppe Front, commanded by Ivan Konev. The front was formed from the Steppe Military District on 9 July, to serve as a reserve if the German attack broke through and to provide fresh troops for a counterattack to begin as soon as the German attack was halted. This order of battle does not show the complete composition of the Steppe Front. In addition to the units listed below, there were also the 4th Guards, 27th, 47th and 53rd Armies. The 4th Guards, 27th, 47th, and the 53rd Armies were held in reserve during the battle and thus did not participate. The 5th Guards Army and the 5th Guards Tank Army were both committed to the counterattack in the Battle of Prokhorovka, where they fought as part of the Voronezh Front.

5th Guards Army
The following units were part of the 5th Guards Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Alexey Zhadov. The 10th Tank Corps was directly subordinated to the front on 7 July and became part of the 1st Tank Army on 8 July. Also on 8 July, the 5th Guards Army was transferred to the Voronezh Front.  
32nd Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Aleksandr Rodimtsev)
13th Guards Rifle Division (Major General Gleb Baklanov)
66th Guards Rifle Division (Major General Akim Yakshin)
6th Guards Airborne Division (Colonel Mikhail Smirnov)
33rd Guards Rifle Corps (Major General Iosif Popov)
95th Guards Rifle Division (Colonel Andrey Lyakhov)
97th Guards Rifle Division(Colonel Ivan Antsiferov)
9th Guards Airborne Division (Colonel Aleksandr Sazonov)
Independent 42nd Guards Rifle Division
Independent 10th Tank Corps (Major General Vasily Burkov)
Independent 29th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

5th Guards Tank Army
The 5th Guards Tank Army consisted of the following units, under the command of Lieutenant General Pavel Rotmistrov. The 18th Tank Corps joined the army from the Reserve of the High Command on 7 July. The army was transferred to the Voronezh Front on 11 July.
5th Guards Mechanized Corps (Major General Boris Skvortsov)
18th Tank Corps (Major General Boris Bakharov)
29th Tank Corps (Major General Ivan Kirichenko)
Independent 6th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division

5th Air Army
The 5th Air Army included the following units, and was commanded by Lieutenant General Sergei Goryunov. It entered combat in mid-July.
7th Mixed Aviation Corps (Major General Pyotr Arkhangelsky)
8th Mixed Aviation Corps (Major General Nikolai Kamanin)
3rd Fighter Aviation Corps (Major General Yevgeny Savitsky)
7th Fighter Aviation Corps (Major General Aleksandr Utin)

Citations

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World War II orders of battle