Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - Onye a họpụtara onye isi nke 172nd Rifle Division na 9 Septemba, Kostitsyn duziri ngalaba ahụ mgbe ọ malitere ịmalite na Mpaghara Nchebe Moscow. A kpọghachitere ya ka ọ na-eduzi 183rd Rifle Division, ugbu a na Reserve nke Supreme High Command, na 30 Septemba. N'agbata 7 na 20 Jenụwarị 1943, e zigara ndị agha nke 183 na Voronezh Front, na-esonye na ndị agha nke 40. Kostitsyn duziri ngalaba ahụ na Ostrogozhsk<unk>Rossosh Offensive, Voronezh<unk>Kastornoye ọrụ, na Agha nke Atọ nke Kharkov. Maka idu ndú ya na nkewa na Kharkov Offensive Kostitsyn nwetara Order nke Red Banner na 25 Machị. Na Machị nkewa lụrụ ọgụ na ịgbachitere Kharkov n'oge nke ikpeazụ, na ndị German na-aga n'ihu na-amanye ịlaghachi na Seversky Donets, mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ gbachitere ọnọdụ na mpaghara Krutoy Log na Nizhny Olshanets. Na mbido ọnwa Eprel, e kenyere ya n'azụ ndị agha na-agbachitere nso Prokhorovka. Ngalaba ahụ gbachitere ọnọdụ ya na mbido Agha Kursk
na 6 Julaị, na-agbagha mwakpo ndị Germany. Dị ka akụkụ nke ndị agha nke 69 nke 35th Guards Rifle Corps, Kostitsyn duziri 183rd n'oge mwakpo ndị Soviet na-esote. Mwakpo ahụ malitere na 21 Julaị, na-awakpo usoro ndị German n'etiti Novy Oskol na Verkhnye Olshanets, bụ ndị e jidere tupu nkewa ahụ aga n'ihu n'usoro nchekwa n'etiti Height 217.4 na Dalnyaya Igumenka. N'ụbọchị 24 nke ọnwa Julaị, e gburu Kostitsyn na ọtụtụ ndị isi ndị isi site na bọmbụ gburu ndị isi nke ngalaba ahụ. E liri ya na Novy Oskol, e nyere ya onyinye nke agha nke mba, klas nke mbụ na 24 August maka idu ndú nke nkewa na Prokhorovka.