TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY, BORIS YELTSIN MADE A TRIP TO ORËL (ORYOL), RUSSIA

PRESIDENT YELTSIN 

MAKES AN INSPECTION TRIP 

AND COMMEMORATES 

THE BATTLE OF KURSK 

August 4, 1993 

BORIS YELTSIN (center) WAVING TO THE 
CITIZENS OF ORËL (ORYOL), RUSSIA 

EMERGING FROM THE SECOND LIMOUSINE IS 
YEGOR STROYEV, GOVERNOR OF ORËL 

Among the issues of the day 
The competition with Rutskoi and Khasbulatov 
The currency exchange crisis 
The harvest 
Land reform 
A new Constitution 
Yeltsin's health 

The story coming in 
RUSSIA REDUX 

SEVENTY YEARS SINCE THE BATTLE OF KURSK

A TURNING POINT 

IN WORLD WAR II 

A VETERAN OF THE BATTLE  
OF THE KURSK SALIENT 
at the 50th Anniversary 
ORËL, RUSSIA 
August 1993 

The largest tank battle 

OREL RECAPTURED IN THE BATTLE OF KURSK, August 5, 1943

OREL (AND BELGOROD) 

RECAPTURED BY THE RED ARMY 

IN THE BATTLE OF KURSK (WORLD WAR II) 

August 5, 1943 

Photograph © Gwendolyn Stewart 2011 

WORLD WAR II VETERAN, 

OREL, RUSSIA, 1993 

Photograph taken during Boris Yeltsin's visit fifty years after the war, to commemorate the Soviet victory in the Battle of Kursk