German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk happened in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series of armored clashes and the costliest single day of aerial warfare.
As a result of space storm, the 11th landing group of "Ares" lost communication and crash-landed in a sector Gideon-9 next to a miner's colony. However the colony was abandoned and populated by other form of life.