Prokhorovka ( rus, Про́хоровка, p=ˈproxərəfkə) is an urban locality (a

settlement Settlement may refer to: * Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building *Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction *Settlement (fin ...

) and the administrative center of

Prokhorovsky District Prokhorovsky District (russian: Про́хоровский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.Law #248 Municipally, it is incorporated as Prokhorovsky Municipal District.Law #159 I ...

Belgorod Oblast Belgorod Oblast (russian: Белгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Belgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: History At the turn of the 17th c ...

, Russia, along the

Psyol River The Psel (, translit. ''Psyol''; , translit. ''Psel, Ps'ol, Pslo'') is a river, a left tributary of the Dnieper, which flows through Russia and Ukraine. The Psel has a length of and a drainage basin of .Kursk Kursk ( rus, Курск, p=ˈkursk) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers. The area around Kursk was the site of a turning point in the Soviet–German stru ...

. Population:

History

The first mention of the populated area in historical documents dates back to the second half of the 17th century. Polish nobleman Kiril G. Ilyinsky and his son Sava left during the Russian-Polish war of 1654–67 in Poland under the Belgorod, where they founded the suburb Elias. In 1860 Elias

Sloboda A sloboda ( rus, слобода́, p=sləbɐˈda) was a kind of settlement in the history of the Old Russian regions Povolzhye, Central Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for "freedom" and may be loosel ...

was renamed in honor of the reigning Emperor Alexander II in the village of Alexandrov. In the 1880s west of the village passed a line of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov railway. At the same time Prokhorovka station was built, named after the railway engineer names VI Prokhorov responsible for its construction. In the summer of 1943, Prokhorovka was the site of the

Battle of Prokhorovka The Battle of Prokhorovka was fought on 12 July 1943 near Prokhorovka, southeast of Kursk, in the Soviet Union, during the Second World War. Taking place on the Eastern Front, the engagement was part of the wider Battle of Kursk and occurre ...

, a major armored confrontation during the

Battle of Kursk The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front engagement between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in the southwestern USSR during late summer 1943; it ultimately became the largest tank battle in history ...

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

. In July 2013, Vice Prime Minister

Dmitry Rogozin Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin (russian: link=no, Дми́трий Оле́гович Рого́зин; born 21 December 1963) is a Russian politician who served as director general of Roscosmos from 2018 to July 2022. He previously served as deputy ...

offered to establish by 2015 a museum commemorating the battle. The display of armored vehicles will be permanent and the technologies shown there will bring up recollections of the events of World War II.

Transportation

Prokhorovka serves as a railway station on a major railway linking Moscow and the

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city of

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

Gallery

File:Orthodox Monastery, Prokhorovka, Russia.jpg, Orthodox monastery, Prokhorovka File:Black Earth - Prokhorovka - Russia.JPG, Black earth, Prokhorovka File:Eternal Flame War Memorial - Prokhorovka - Russia.JPG, Eternal flame war memorial, Prokhorovka File:Captured German Sword - Museum in Prokhorovka - Russia.JPG, Captured German sword in war museum, Prokhorovka File:Sparrow in Gun Barrel of Tank - Prokhorovka (Battle of Kursk) - Russia (3774259862).jpg, Sparrow in gun barrel of tank, Prokhorovka File:Statue of Grieving Mother - Hotel Complex Projorovskoe Lobby - Prokhorovka - Russia.JPG, Statue of grieving mother, Hotel Complex Projorovskoe lobby File:Monument to Battle of Kursk - Prokhorovka - Russia.JPG, Victory Memorial, Prokhorovka File:Marshal Zhukov Depicted on Kursk Memorial - Prokhorovka - Russia.JPG, Marshal Zhukov depicted on Victory Memorial facade, Prokhorovka

References

{{Authority control Urban-type settlements in Belgorod Oblast