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Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast

Settlement in Russia

Field	Value
en_name	Prokhorovka
ru_name	Прохоровка
image_skyline	В небе над Прохоровкой 18.jpg
image_caption	Aerial view
pushpin_map	Russia Belgorod Oblast#European Russia#Russia
coordinates
adm_district_jur	Prokhorovsky District
inhabloc_cat	Urban-type settlement
pop_2010census_ref
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Prokhorovka's monument to the dead Soviet soldiers

A memorial on the Prokhorovka battlefield

Prokhorovka (Про́хоровка) is an urban locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia, along the Psyol River southeast of the city of Kursk. 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The first mention of the populated area in historical documents dates back to the second half of the 17th century.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 Russo-Polish war of 1654–1667 in Poland under the Belgorod, where they founded the suburb Elias. In 1860 Elias Sloboda 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 V. I. Prokhorov responsible for its construction. In the summer of 1943, Prokhorovka was the site of the Battle of Prokhorovka, a major armored confrontation during the Battle of Kursk of World War II. In July 2013, Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin 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 Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

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

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Andrey Mernikov. (2021). "Геральдика России". LitRes.
"Deputy premier calls for creating Museum of Armor near Belgorod by 2015".

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