The defeat of German troops near Moscow (1942)

Views of the Moscow Kremlin (top).

View of Red Square with a camouflaged mausoleum in October 1941, cars drive through the square.

View of the Bolshoi Theater disguised as residential buildings, a military patrol passes by.

Transportation of air barrage balloons along Gorky Street.

A traffic controller on Red Square indicates the direction of movement to a military unit.

Residents of Moscow read the Resolution of the State Defense Committee (GKO), pasted on the wall of one of the buildings.

Text of the GKO resolution.

Commander of the Western Front, Army General Zhukov G.K. at headquarters over a map.

Chief of the Moscow garrison, Lieutenant General Artemyev P.A. with members of the Moscow defense headquarters.

View of one of the defensive structures on a Moscow street (top), an artillery tractor with a gun drives by.

Muscovites build defensive structures on the streets of the city.

Residents of Moscow at excavation work to build anti-tank ditches on the outskirts of Moscow.

Construction of a defensive line on the river bank.

View of a defensive structure made of bags of earth on a street in Moscow.

View of the wall of a building (top to bottom), a barricade in the arch of a building.

Checking the documents of drivers of motor vehicles.

Panorama of an anti-tank structure on one of Moscow's squares.

An artillery piece in a caponier on one of Moscow's streets.

Motorcyclists drive along one of Moscow's streets.

A tram passes between defensive structures.

View of a section of a highway, trucks drive between defensive structures.

A sentry at a post near an anti-aircraft gun.

Residents of Moscow sign up for fighter squads and labor battalions.

Distribution of warm uniforms to militiamen.

Distribution of small arms to fighters of a labor battalion.

Militiamen receive grenades.

Distribution of heavy machine guns to militiamen, one of the fighters takes the Maxim machine gun mount onto his shoulders.

The machine gun crew disassembles the component parts of the machine gun.

Faces of armed workers.

The formation of militia begins to move, the faces of the fighters passing by.

A labor battalion moves along the streets of Moscow to the front line.

Women, who replaced men in production, make ammunition, the production process at a military plant.

Making hand grenades.

An observer at the airborne detection, observation and communication (VNOS) post with binoculars on the roof of a building.

View of a part of Red Square on November 7, 1941. Stalin I.V. speaks from the rostrum of the mausoleum during the military parade on November 7, 1941 with an address to the Soviet people (synchronously).

A tank column moves to the front line along one of the streets of Moscow in November 1941. Ski battalion fighters in camouflage suits and with skis on their shoulders move along one of the streets of Moscow.

Trucks with infantry and tanks drive along Okhotny Ryad.

Tanks go to the front line.

A cavalry unit moves.

Units of various branches of the armed forces move along the streets of Moscow to the front line.

Cavalry moving to the front line.

Construction of defensive lines by Moscow residents.

Panorama of part of the line of anti-tank obstacles.

View of part of the line of anti-tank "hedgehogs".

Installation of barbed wire obstacles.

View of part of a barbed wire obstacle.

Construction of forest blockages, falling tree trunks.

Panorama of one of the blockages.

View of part of an anti-tank ditch.

An airplane flies over the forest, view of a camouflaged firing point.

The pillbox flap is thrown back, the artillery piece is brought into combat position.

View of a machine-gun pillbox.

Machine gun barrel.

View of part of one of the firing points.

Anti-tank post on the approaches to Moscow.

Anti-tank obstacles on one of Moscow's squares.

Production processes for the manufacture of weapons at Moscow enterprises, workers at their machines.

View of the central part of Moscow at night (from above).

Beams of air defense searchlights in the Moscow sky.

Anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns fire at air targets.

The sun shines through the clouds.

Air defense sound detector bells on a Moscow building.

Workers assemble PPSh submachine guns, anti-aircraft artillery fires.

Finished submachine guns in a weapons pyramid (panorama).

Anti-aircraft artillery fires.

The process of assembling mines for mortars on a conveyor belt at a Moscow plant.

Finished mines on a conveyor belt.

Sending a train with ammunition to the front from a factory warehouse.

Panorama of the firing position of the Red Army artillery battery.

Crews of artillery guns of various systems and calibers fire at the enemy, shells explode on German positions.

A tank moves to the attack line.

Machine gunners in camouflage suits move to the position.

A light armored car is sent on reconnaissance.

Tanks and infantry move to positions.

An observer watches aerial targets with binoculars.

An airplane flies over the forest.

An anti-aircraft gun crew prepares to open fire.

German airplanes are flying.

Anti-aircraft artillery fires at aerial targets.

An observer with binoculars.

The wreckage of a downed German bomber, the pilot's body lies nearby.

Tanks move to their starting position.

Soviet bombers are heading for their target.

Falling bombs, explosions on German positions (above).

Soviet tanks on the offensive.

Soviet bombers are flying.

Artillery gun crews and an armored train fire at the enemy, artillerymen in action.

Tanks attack German positions.

Red Army infantry and cavalry attack the enemy.

Artillery fires at the enemy, gun barrels.

Burning German tank.

Corpses of German soldiers (panorama).

German prisoners of war are escorted to the rear.

Panorama of a part of a destroyed German motorcade.

Faces of German prisoners of war.

German prisoners of war try to keep warm in the cold.

Award ceremony for soldiers and commanders of a tank unit who distinguished themselves in battle.

Orders on a table.

Presentation of orders to commanders.

Faces of those awarded, standing in formation (panorama).

Awarding of orders to pilots who distinguished themselves in the battles for Moscow.

A flight unit in formation during an award ceremony.

Presentation of the battle flag to the 1st Guards Corps.

Faces of machine gunners standing in formation.

Corps Commander General Belov P.A. with the banner.

Faces of the Red Army soldiers.

General Belov kisses the banner.

Units of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps ride in mounted formation with the presented banner along the outskirts of a populated area.

A cavalry unit moves across a river on a wooden bridge built by sappers.

Cavalry and infantry of the Red Army move to the front line.

A heavy artillery unit on caterpillar tracks moves along the road.

Rifle units and artillery of the Red Army follow to the front line.

General of the Army G.K. Zhukov, Chief of Staff of the Front Lieutenant General V.D. Sokolovsky, member of the Military Council of the Western Front N.A. Bulganin over a map of military operations during an operational meeting to prepare a counterattack.

Pilots at the airfield receive a combat mission.

Preparing a bomber for takeoff.

Aircraft at the airfield.

Il-4 bombers before takeoff.

A flight gunner checks the mobility of the turret with a machine gun.

Suspending bombs under the plane's wings.

Installing fuses on bombs suspended under the wings.

Loading ammunition for the bomber's defensive armament.

Red Army commanders at the front line raise binoculars to their eyes.

Commanders inspect the front line and clarify the combat mission.

The ascent of a balloon with artillery spotters.

View of the balloon (from below).

The barrel of an artillery gun rises, rifling in the barrel bore is visible.

Artillery preparing to strike the enemy.

View of the firing position of one of the artillery batteries, a sighting shot is fired.

Soviet artillery begins artillery preparation during the start of the counteroffensive on December 6, 1941. Artillery crews at work, the face of the battery commander giving the command to open fire.

A balloon with spotters in the air.

Transmission of data for firing via field telephone.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy, views of gun firing positions, explosions on the German front line.

Tank crews take their places in combat vehicles on command.

Commander of the 16th Army Lieutenant General K.K. Rokossovsky and Chief of Staff of the Army Major General M.S. Malinin on the front line during the Soviet offensive near Moscow.

Rokossovsky's face.

Soviet tanks attack the enemy.

Bomber crews take their places in combat vehicles.

The pilot closes the canopy.

The bomber's propeller spins.

Bombers taxiing to the airfield runway.

The pilot's face.

A squadron of Soviet bombers in flight.

Airstrikes on the enemy, bombs exploding on German positions (top).

Commander of the 5th Army General I.V. Boldin and members of his staff on the front line during the counteroffensive in the Tula region.

Boldin's face.

View of a camouflaged artillery firing position in the forest, firing at the enemy.

Machine gunners of the assault group take their places on sleds attached to a tank.

Combat work of one of the artillery crews.

Artillery fire on German positions.

A ski battalion advances with the support of tanks.

Tanks with troops on their armor go on the offensive.

Evacuation of a wounded soldier to the rear.

Soviet tanks on the offensive.

Artillery firing at the enemy.

Mortar crews firing.

Corpses of German soldiers covered in snow.

Cavalrymen of General Belov's Corps P.A. in a forest clearing.

The cavalrymen stop, Belov dismounts.

Belov clarifies the combat mission on the map.

Attack of the cavalrymen of the 1st Guards Corps on Stalinogorsk, planes are flying.

General Belov observes the attack.

View of the field with cavalry attacking the enemy.

Commander of the Western Front Zhukov G.K. at the telegraph apparatus in the front headquarters, Sokolovsky V.D. and Bulganin N.A. are standing nearby.

Tanks during the offensive on Rogachev.

An airborne unit approaches an airplane for loading.

Paratroopers boarding one of the airplanes.

Airplanes at the airfield before takeoff.

The face of one of the pilots.

Panorama of the winter forest (from above).

Airplanes in flight.

Paratroopers landing in the German rear.

Paratroopers leaving the airplane, parachute canopies in the sky.

Paratroopers landing and entering the battle.

Paratroopers disassemble their skis.

One of the paratroopers removes his parachute.

Paratroopers put on their skis.

Paratroopers moving on skis through enemy rear areas.

View of German barbed wire.

Paratroopers lying down prepare to fire machine guns.

Paratroopers-skiers moving on their bellies.

Blowing up a bridge over German communications.

The commander of the 1st Shock Army, Lieutenant General V. I. Kuznetsov, discusses an operational issue with staff officers at the front line.

Kuznetsov's face.

A KV-1 tank is moving.

Sappers are building a wooden bridge across a water obstacle.

A tank is driving across the bridge.

A column of heavy artillery on tracks is moving towards Yakhroma.

A light tank is moving along a snowy highway.

A snow-covered corpse of a German soldier.

The movement of tanks and heavy artillery.

The face of the commander of the 5th Army, General L. A. Govorov.

Signalmen at field telephones.

Soviet artillery is firing at the enemy in the Mozhaisk direction.

A tank goes on the attack.

Soviet bombers are flying.

Artillery is hitting the enemy, shells and bombs are exploding on German positions.

Tanks are tearing through barbed wire.

Infantry attacking the enemy.

A Red Army soldier evacuates a wounded comrade to the rear.

The infantry goes on the attack on the outskirts of Mozhaisk.

A machine-gun crew opens fire.

Armored trains and artillery fire at the enemy, corpses of German soldiers.

The corpse of a German soldier lies in the snow, Red Army soldiers attacking the enemy run past.

A medic carries a wounded soldier to the rear.

A tank goes on the attack.

Panorama of part of the crushed German barbed wire fence.

Fighter planes taxi for takeoff.

Fighter planes fly on a combat mission.

Tanks go on the attack, Soviet bombers fly.

Ski units go forward accompanied by tanks, a tank with troops on its armor.

Infantry, tanks and aircraft go on the attack, views of the advancing troops (above).

Tanks open fire on the move.

Corpses of German soldiers.

View of the advancing unit (above).

The face of the commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General F.I. Golikov.

Golikov and his chief of staff at the front line with a map in their hands.

A ski unit on the march.

A rifle unit attacks a village.

Evacuation of a wounded man on a sled.

The infantry advances towards the village across a field.

Panorama of the battlefield (from above).

A machine-gun crew fires.

The senior political instructor rouses the soldiers to attack.

Red Army soldiers with rifles at the ready attack the enemy.

A dead Red Army soldier falls.

Machine gunners fire.

View of the battlefield.

A medical orderly bandages the head of a wounded soldier.

Attack of the Soviet infantry.

A ski assault battalion attacks a village, providing assistance to the wounded man.

Attack of a populated area, fires.

Combat operations in one of the populated areas, Soviet troops drive out the enemy.

Red Army soldiers pull surrendering German soldiers out of a barn.

German soldiers surrender.

A machine-gun crew sets up a machine gun near the wall of a building during the liberation of one of the populated areas.

The infantry attacks along a city street.

A Nazi flag is lying near the porch, captured Germans are coming down from the porch.

Captured German soldiers are leaving a wooden house with their hands up, walking under the escort.

Escorting German prisoners of war.

Corpses of German soldiers are lying in the snow.

Broken German equipment and weapons (panorama).

A Soviet tank is driving along the street of a liberated city.

A tank drives along the street of one of the liberated cities of the Moscow region, smiling faces of the city residents, women greet the liberators.

Tanks drive along the streets of the city, people greet the tankers, faces of women and children.

Residents of liberated settlements greet the Soviet troops passing to the west, a woman treats the Red Army soldiers sitting in the back of a truck with pies, shakes their hands.

Units of the Red Army go to the west, an elderly woman crosses and kisses the passing Red Army soldiers, faces of children.

Refugees return to their homes.

The interior of a part of the house mutilated by the Nazis.

An icon thrown on the floor by the fascists.

The population of one of the villages greets the commanders and Red Army soldiers, girls hug the fighters.

The return home of the partisans of the village of Oreshki, a meeting with relatives, faces of the returning partisans.

Chairman of the Solnechnogorsk City Council A.I. Batov, who returned from the partisan detachment, solves pressing issues and talks with people on the porch of the city council.

Batov invites people to the city council building.

Batov speaks at a rally from the balcony of the city council.

Faces of rally participants in Solnechnogorsk.

A political worker speaks at a rally.

Rally participants applaud, faces of rally participants.

Panorama of the rally (above).

Cavalry units of the Red Army move west.

A column of Soviet troops on one of the streets of liberated Yakhroma.

Entrance to the territory of the Yakhroma spinning and weaving factory.

Abandoned German trucks on the territory of the factory (panorama).

Views and panorama of the factory territory with abandoned German armored vehicles.

A heavy tank drives by.

Panorama of destruction in one of the liberated cities.

Cavalry moves past destroyed German tanks.

Residents of Rogachevo return to their homes destroyed by the Germans.

Tanks and aircraft on the offensive.

A view of a railway bridge blown up by the Germans (above).

Views of the destruction of liberated Rogachevo and the railway station (above).

Collective farmers extinguish burning grain from a grain elevator set on fire by the Germans.

Collective farmers use shovels to throw away grain saved from the fire.

View of a grain elevator damaged by fire (panorama, above).

Views and panoramas of destruction in Epifani, Klin (above).

An elderly woman cries at the ashes of a burnt house.

Women at the dying ashes.

Medics lead an injured girl.

A Red Army soldier leads a wounded teenage girl rescued from under the rubble.

Local residents cry over the corpses of their loved ones, tortured by the German fascists, faces of German prisoners of war.

The naked corpses of wounded Red Army soldiers, burned by the Germans.

Red Army commanders bare their heads.

A pile of corpses of captured Red Army soldiers and civilians killed by the German occupiers.

A panorama of a burning building, charred corpses of Soviet people on the site of the fire.

Red Army soldiers over the corpses of collective farmers shot by the German occupiers.

Crying women.

Corpses of victims of the Nazi terror.

Identification of corpses by relatives, faces of crying women.

Faces of captured German soldiers.

Corpses of women raped and killed by German soldiers.

People over the bodies of their relatives, faces of children.

Panorama of the bodies of victims of the Nazi terror (from above).

Faces of children.

The commander of the Red Army puts on his hat.

Panorama of destruction in the city of Istra.

Sign with the name of the Istra Timiryazev Secondary School.

Panorama of the school building burned by the Nazis.

Ruins of the house where A.P. Chekhov lived.

View of the damaged building of the Moscow Regional Museum of Local History, located in an Orthodox church.

Sign with the name of the museum.

The New Jerusalem Church, turned into ruins by the German occupiers.

Interior views of the destruction in the church.

Panorama and views of the destruction of the New Jerusalem Monastery.

Views of the Tchaikovsky House Museum from Klin.

A German motorcycle is smashed on top of Tchaikovsky's bust.

Books and sheet music torn by German soldiers, lying in the snow (panorama).

A museum employee lifts Tchaikovsky's bust from the snow and carries it into the house.

A motorcycle is in the doorway of the house.

Museum employees collect books scattered in the snow and carry them into the house.

Destruction at L. N. Tolstoy's estate in Yasnaya Polyana.

A museum employee talks to Red Army soldiers.

Destruction in the rooms of the Tolstoy house-museum caused by the German fascists.

Tolstoy's office and a room with vaults defaced by German soldiers.

Destruction in Tolstoy's house.

View of the burnt building of the Yasnaya Polyana regional hospital.

A sign with the name of the hospital.

A German soldiers' cemetery around Tolstoy's grave (panorama).

Units of the Red Army move forward, pursuing the German fascist occupiers.

Broken German vehicles on one of the roads (panorama).

Panorama of an artillery firing position abandoned by the Germans, a heavy gun abandoned by the Germans.

Artillery guns abandoned by the Germans during their retreat (panorama).

Corpses of German soldiers, a captured German plane.

Panorama of wrecked and abandoned German vehicles, corpses of German soldiers.

Panorama of part of a German soldiers' cemetery, rows of grave crosses.

Wrecked German vehicles and armored vehicles on the roadsides (panorama, top).

Wehrmacht small arms taken as trophies.

Corpses of German soldiers.

Soviet troops moving west.

Panorama of a road with Soviet troops moving along it and battlefields with wrecked German vehicles (top).

People standing in line at a newsstand.

Newspapers for sale.

Text of a report on the failure of the German plan to encircle and capture Moscow.

A rally at one of the Moscow factories, rally participants applaud the speakers.

A girl gives a speech.

Rally participants applaud (panorama).

Tank repair in a workshop at one of the Moscow enterprises.

The repaired tank heads towards the exit from the workshop.

An armored train leaves the depot, workers see the armored train off to the front.

View of the armored train's anti-aircraft platform (above), landscape by the road.

A sign on a pole with an inscription in German.

Panorama of a section of the road to Moscow with wrecked and abandoned German equipment (top).

Wrecked and abandoned German motor vehicles on the side of the road (panorama).

Corpses of German soldiers in the snow.

A Red Army soldier inspects a captured German tank.

The face of the commander of the Kalinin Front, I.S. Konev.

Soldiers of the ski assault battalion advance forward, driving the enemy out from under Kalinin. I.S. Konev with members of the front headquarters on the front line gives orders.

The face of the commander of the 29th Army, Major General V.A. Yushkevich.

Soviet troops are conducting combat operations in the Kalinin direction, the infantry is rising to the attack, the artillery is firing at the enemy.

The infantry is attacking the outskirts of Kalinin, a machine-gun crew is firing.

The infantry is fighting in one of the suburbs of Kalinin.

Panorama of a section of the battlefield.

Fighting among the ruins, infantry moving forward.

Soviet rifle units moving along the streets of liberated Kalinin, faces of Red Army soldiers passing by.

Faces of city residents.

Units of the Red Army moving along the streets of Kalinin.

A horse-drawn artillery unit on one of the streets of Kalinin.

Walls of damaged buildings.

A Red Army soldier knocks a sign in German off a pole with a rifle butt.

Faces of city residents, raising the red banner.

Units of the Red Army moving along the streets of Kalinin.

Light tanks passing by.

View of a unit in liberated Volokolamsk.

Tanks and infantry on the streets of liberated Volokolamsk.

Trucks with infantry and artillery crews of anti-tank guns passing by.

View of a destroyed building.

Corpses on the gallows.

A political worker speaking at a rally near the gallows in front of the residents of Volokolamsk, faces of the rally participants.

Raising the barrel of a heavy artillery piece.

The heavy artillery begins to fire at the enemy.

Red Army units advance on Mozhaisk in January 1942. Red Army units engage in street fighting in Mozhaisk, a machine gunner takes up a position near the ruins.

Light tanks advance along the outskirts of the city.

A rifle squad advances across the square toward a burnt-out building.

A German tank destroyed during the battle for Mozhaisk.

Red Army units advance along the streets of Mozhaisk, trucks with infantry drive by, and city residents greet the liberators.

A poster is installed on the wall of a house.

Newspapers and leaflets are distributed to the local population from a truck.

A propaganda poster is attached to a wall.

Red Army units advance west along one of the city streets, armored cars and a motorcyclist unit drive by.

Red Army units advance west along the Borodino field past a monument near the village of Gorki.

View of the monument, the figure of an eagle on top of the monument.

Kutuzov's name and commemorative inscriptions on the pedestal of the monument.

A cameraman is filming a monument, units of the Red Army are passing by.

Artillery on caterpillar tracks and units of various types of weapons are moving west across the Borodino field.

A tank column is passing.

Heavy artillery is moving.

Trucks with infantry are driving by.