# Talk:Battle of Kursk

While I understand the worries that some may have about going off of the inconsistent sources we have on casualties, I really feel like most readers would not like to see a messy wall of text without any way of quickly skimming overall info from. Troopersho (talk) 19:58, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

It's also confusing when you compare to the total strength numbers. Do many historians really believe that half of the German participants were casualties? If this is a fringe view (or if it is always accompanied by higher strength estimates), it shouldn't be presented as an equally likely alternative. Ornilnas (talk) 14:17, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
Russian liars write about German's loss of 400,000 people in the Battle of Kursk. It is strange that in the English-language Wikipedia the size of German losses on the basis of nationalist Russian-language sources.Vaclaw1990 (talk) 04:17, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

According to Krivosheev (I have the 2010 edition), table 139, page 237, there were 1 829 666 wounded and 231 139 sick during the third quartal of 1943. The ratio is 89% wounded and 11% sick.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.165.233.6 (talk) 14:21, 2 July 2025 (UTC) 

you are absolutely right. some Russian falsifier wrote a false number to minimize Soviet losses.Vaclaw1990 (talk) 13:56, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

It has been a little bit since this article has been reviewed, so I took a look and noticed uncited statements, including entire paragraphs. I also noticed that the article is over 13,000 words, far more than the recommended amount at WP:SS. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 02:22, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

I couldn't find the book "Soviet Health Care and Military Medicine in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" by N. Ivanov, A. Georgievsky, and O. Lobastov anywhere on the internet in open access. An unknown forger, citing this book, indicated that the sanitary losses of Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk were 26%. This book was published in 1985, at which time Soviet losses in the Battle of Kursk were classified. Therefore, this book simply cannot indicate 26% as sick in the Battle of Kursk Moreover, Soviet losses were first published in Krivosheev's book in 1993, and Soviet sanitary losses according Krivosheev for 1943 were 8-10%. Therefore, I consider the reference to a certain 1985 book, which no one has reviewed, to be simply a falsification, since we cannot verify what is actually written there. Moreover, it contradicts Krivosheev's later book.--Vaclaw1990 (talk) 00:18, 11 November 2025 (UTC)