The result was a strategic Soviet victory, and the soviet army taking the strategic initiative for the rest of the war it was the last German strategic offensive in the east. It featured a German attack on the Kursk salient, ( operation citadel, ) followed by 2 Soviet counterattacks, over a total of 1 month 18 days.

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