Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Akagadzwa mutungamiri we172nd Rifle Division musi wa9 Gunyana, Kostitsyn akatungamira chikamu ichi apo chakatanga kuumbwa muMoscow Defense Zone. Akadzoserwa kunotungamira 183rd Rifle Division, ikozvino muReserve yeSupreme High Command, musi wa30 Gunyana. Pakati pa 7 na 20 Ndira 1943 yechi183 yakaendeswa kuVoronezh Front, ichibatanidza 40th Army. Kostitsyn akatungamira chikamu muOstrogozhsk<unk>Rossosh Offensive, Voronezh<unk>Kastornoye oparesheni, uye Hondo yechitatu yeKharkov. Nokuda kwokutungamira kwake kwechikamu muKharkov Offensive Kostitsyn akapiwa Order yeRed Banner musi wa25 Kurume. Muna Kurume divi akarwa pakudzivirira Kharkov panguva yokupedzisira, uye akanga kumanikidzwa nokuda German mberi kuti adzokere kuna Seversky Donets, pashure iyo akadzivirira nzvimbo munzvimbo Krutoy Log uye Nizhny Olshanets. Pakuvamba kwaApril yakapiwa kumutsetse wokudzivirira wamashure wehondo pedyo neProkhorovka. Chikamu chacho chakadzivirira nzvimbo dzacho pakuvamba kwegore ra
Hondo yeKursk musi wa6 Chikunguru, ichidzinga kurwisa kweGermany. Sechikamu che69th Army's 35th Guards Rifle Corps, Kostitsyn akatungamira 183rd panguva yekutevera kweSoviet. Kurwisa kwakatanga musi wa 21 Chikunguru, kurwisa mitsara yeGerman pakati peNovy Oskol neVerkhnye Olshanets, iyo yakabatwa pamberi pechikamu ichi chisati chaenda kunzvimbo yekudzivirira pakati peKukwirira 217.4 neDalnyaya Igumenka. Musi wa24 Chikunguru Kostitsyn nevakuru vakuru vakati wandei vakaurayiwa negomba rakananga rakapfura kubhunker yekuraira. Akavigwa muNovy Oskol, akapiwa posthumously Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class musi wa24 Nyamavhuvhu nekuda kwekutungamira kwake kwechikamu paProkhorovka.