Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I tohua hei rangatira mo te 172nd Rifle Division i te Mahuru 9, Kostitsyn i arahi i te wehenga i te wa i tiimata ai te hanga i te Rohe Parenga o Moscow. I whakawhitihia ia ki te whakahau i te 183rd Rifle Division, inaianei kei roto i te Reserve o te Supreme High Command, i te 30 o Hepetema. I waenga i te 7 me te 20 o Hanuere 1943 i nekehia te 183 ki te Voronezh Front, ka uru atu ki te 40 Army. Ko Kostitsyn i arahi i te wehenga i te Ostrogozhsk<unk>Rossosh Offensive, te Voronezh<unk>Kastornoye mahi, me te Tuatoru o te Pakanga o Kharkov. Mo tana kaiarahi o te wehenga i te Kharkov Offensive Kostitsyn i whakawhiwhia ki te Order of the Red Banner i te 25 o Poutu-te-rangi. I roto i te Maehe whawhai te wehenga i roto i te tiaki o Kharkov i roto i te whakamutunga, a i akina e te German mua ki te hoki ki te Seversky Donets, i muri i nei i tiakina reira tūranga i roto i te rohe o Krutoy Log ko Nizhny Olshanets. I te timatanga o Paenga-whāwhā i whakaritea ki te raina whakangungu o muri o te ope i te taha o Prokhorovka. I tiakina e te wehenga ona tuunga i te timatanga o te Pakanga o Kursk
I te 6 o Hōngongoi, i te whakaheke i ngā whakaeke Tiamana. Hei waahanga o te 69th Army's 35th Guards Rifle Corps, i arahi a Kostitsyn i te 183 i te wa o te whakaeke a te Soviet. I tiimata te whakaeke i te 21 o Hurae, i whakaeke i nga raina Tiamana i waenga o Novy Oskol me Verkhnye Olshanets, i hopukina i mua i te wehenga i ahu whakamua ki te raina paruru i waenga i te teitei 217.4 me Dalnyaya Igumenka. I te 24 o Hurae Kostitsyn me etahi o nga kaitohutohu i mate i te pupuhi tika i pa ki te bunker whakahau wehenga. I tanumia ki Novy Oskol, i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class i te 24 o Akuhata mo tana kaiarahi o te wehenga i Prokhorovka.