Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel, gives its name to a series of armed clashes that took place between July and August 1943 in the region of the same name in Russia in the context of World War II.
The Battle of Kursk, also known as Operation Citadel, gives its name to a series of armed clashes that took place between July and August 1943 in the region of the same name in Russia in the context of World War II.
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Albert Einstein is a theoretical physicist, one of the founders of modern theoretical physics, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, and a humanist social activist.