A bell-tower commemorating the Soviet victory on the Field of Prokhorovka

Prokhorovka's temple of the glory of the dead russian soldiers

Prokhorovka (Russian: Про́хоровка) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Psyol River southwest of the city of Kursk. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Urban-type settlement (посёлок городско́го ти́па posyolok gorodskogo tipa; селище міського типу selyshche mis'koho typu; Belgorod Oblast (Белгоро́дская о́бласть Belgorodskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Psyol or Psel (Псёл translit Psyol; Псeл Псьол Псло translit History KurskOld2jpg|thumb|200px|Pre-1917 view of Kursk]] Archaeology indicates that the site of Kursk was settled in the fifth or fourth century B Prokhorovka was the site of the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major armoured confrontation during the Battle of Kursk of the Great Patriotic War. The Battle of Prokhorovka was the largest tank battle in Military history, fought by armoured formations of Wehrmacht and the Red Army. The Battle of Kursk (Курская битва refers to a series of German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II The term Great Patriotic War (Великая Отечественная война Velikaya Otechestvennaya Vojna) is used in Russia and some other

Population: 10,007 (2002 Census); 8,093 (1989 Census). Russian Census of 2002 (Всеросси́йская пе́репись населе́ния 2002 го́да was the first Census of the Russian Federation carried The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

External links

• Prokhorovka on Wikimapia