Reviewing events since Kursk in my mind, I very much agree with you. The advance of his army has shown aggressiveness, daring and creativity. Some of the lines of attack he developed were unexpected to me, but proved very effective. He is a few days away from beginning another.
Upon further reflection, you have to have a really, really good chief of staff to manage all those component armies and handle the logistical needs of such a vast enterprise. Vatutin had a really good one, old what’s-his-name.
No, seriously, there is virtually no mention of the Chief of Staff of 1st Ukrainian Front in my on line research. A general Ivanov is listed in the post from October-November of 1943, and that’s it. I’ll go check my resources at home as soon as I get off work.
So much for my amazing ability to pull on line research out my a$$.