Ya jagoranci wannan gaba ta hanyar yakin Kursk. A lokacin rani na 1943, Soviets sun kaddamar da Operation Kutuzov a ranar 12 ga Yuli a kan Army Group Center a cikin Orel salient, kai tsaye arewacin Kursk salient. Bryansk Front, a karkashin umarnin Markian Popov, ya kai hari ga gabashin fuskar Orel yayin da Western Front, wanda Sokolovsky ya umurce shi, ya kai hari daga arewa. Aikin ya ƙare a ranar 18 ga Agusta 1943 tare da kama Soviet na Orel da rushewar Orel bulge. A watan Oktoba-Nuwamba na 1943, Sokolovsky ya umurci Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Yammacin Soviet
Rikicin Orsha akan rundunar Gotthard Heinrici ta 4 a yankin Orsha na Belarus. A watan Afrilu na 1944 an raba Yammacin Yamma zuwa kashi biyu kuma an sanya Sokolovsky a matsayin shugaban ma'aikata na 1st Ukrainian Front karkashin Georgy Zhukov. Ya kasance a wannan matsayi har zuwa karshen yakin a shekarar 1945. A matsayin shugaban ma'aikatan 1st Ukrainian Front, Sokolovsky ya taimaka wajen tsarawa da aiwatar da kama Berlin. Sokolovsky ya zauna kusa da Zhukov yayin da ya karbi Yarjejeniyar Ba da Jamusanci a Berlin.