The contribution of counterintelligence agencies in the Battle of Kursk (July-August 1943): history and modernity

The article analyzes the history of preparation, the specifics of conducting operations during the Battle of Kursk, and the role of counterintelligence agencies in it is highlighted separately. The author's view on the significance and place of the Battle of Kursk in the history of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War is presented. The purpose of the article is to continue the author's research on the problems of the history of the Battle of Kursk in the context of today's events related to its. The article was prepared on the basis of data from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, archives of the Voronezh and Kursk regions, modern Russian and foreign sources. In preparing the article, the authors widely used comparative historical, historical-genetic, historical-typological methods, and also conducted a structural and functional analysis of the features of the Battle of Kursk in comparison with the realities of today.