Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Akatungamirira hondo iyi muHondo yeKursk. Muzhizha ra1943, maSoviet akatanga Operation Kutuzov musi wa12 Chikunguru vachipesana neArmy Group Center muOrel salient, kuchamhembe kweKursk salient. Bryansk Front, pasi pehutungamiri hwaMarkian Popov, yakarwisa rutivi rwokumabvazuva rweOrel salient apo Western Front, yakatungamirirwa naSokolovsky, yakarwisa kubva kuchamhembe. Basa racho rakaguma musi wa18 August 1943 neSoviet kutora kweOrel uye kuparara kweOrel bulge. Muna October-November 1943, Sokolovsky akarayira Western Front muSoviet yakundikana
Kurwisa kweOrsha kurwisa uto rechina raGotthard Heinrici mudunhu reOrsha reBelarus. Muna April 1944 Western Front yakaputsika kuva zvikamu zviviri uye Sokolovsky akaitwa mukuru wevashandi ve1st Ukrainian Front pasi paGeorgy Zhukov. Akaramba ari munzvimbo iyi kusvikira pakapera hondo muna 1945. Somukuru wemauto we1st Ukrainian Front, Sokolovsky akabatsira kuronga nekuita kubatwa kweBerlin. Sokolovsky akagara pedyo naZhukov sezvaaigamuchira Chinyorwa cheGermany Chokupandukira muBerlin.