Battle of Moscow

The film is edited from newsreel footage, included in its turn in I. Kopalin's film "The Defeat of German Troops near Moscow" (1942) Newsreel footage of autumn and winter 1941: views of the Moscow Kremlin and Red Square. Cars pass along the Kremlin Embankment and Red Square. General view of the camouflaged building of the Bolshoi Theater. A military patrol goes down the street. Carriage of a balloon along Gorky Street. A detachment of cavalrymen passing by the building of the hotel "Moscow". The tank drives through Pushkin Square. Anti-aircraft guns in one of the city districts. Balloons over Moscow. People enter the bomb shelter. German plane in the sky over Moscow. Anti-aircraft guns are beating. Frozen German soldiers on the street of one of the settlements near Moscow. German soldiers receive sheepskin coats from a truck, carry them into the house. Soldiers paint military equipment with white paint. A. Hitler, accompanied by officers, examines samples of skis intended for soldiers during the offensive on Moscow. View of the invitation card for the parade of German troops on Red Square. Parade of Soviet troops on November 7 on Red Square. Smelting metal for the front at one of the enterprises in the rear. Women in the workshop at the machines. Making shells. German officers at the map. View of one of the settlements near Moscow. The Nazis bring shells to a long-range gun, aim the gun at Moscow. German officer looks through binoculars. View of Moscow on the eve of the Soviet counteroffensive: anti-tank "hedgehogs", sandbags, military equipment on the city streets. Army General G.K. Zhukov, surrounded by representatives of the command at the map. K.K. Rokossovsky surrounded by officers. A column of soldiers passes through one of the settlements, military equipment is moving. Type of aircraft at one of the airfields near Moscow. The mechanics are preparing the plane for departure, hanging the bombs. The pilot is loading a machine gun. Telegraph operators at the apparatus. The telegraph apparatus is working (Kr.pl.). The counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow: a squadron of aircraft in the sky, the offensive of cavalry, motorcycle units, tanks, shelling of enemy positions, the landing of Soviet troops from the air, the offensive of the infantry, assistance to the wounded on the battlefield, the liberation of settlements near Moscow, the capture of German soldiers, view of broken German military equipment along the road. Tanks enter the liberated city (Istra, Volokolamsk). Soldiers pass along the streets of the liberated settlement, women greet their liberators, one of the women baptizes the soldiers. The soldier is leading the wounded girl. Women cry at the bodies of people brutally tortured by the Nazis. View of the destroyed Museum of Local Lore of the Moscow Region, located in the New Jerusalem Monastery, view of the building of the destroyed cathedral. Type of destruction in the Tchaikovsky Museum in Klin, in the Tolstoy Museum in Yasnaya Polyana. View of the cemetery of German soldiers next to the grave of the writer in the Yasnaya Polyansky garden. A truck with a New Year tree drives along a Moscow street. A man carries a tree down the street. The girls are packing gifts for the front-line soldiers. A column of trucks with soldiers is driving along one of the streets of Mozhaisk. Residents welcome their liberators. Visa of the destroyed building of the museum of the Borodino battle. Soviet troops are on the Borodino field. View of the monument to the heroes of the war of 1812 on the Borodino field. Monuments to Soviet soldiers near Moscow: in Dubosekovo, in Yakhroma and other places in the Moscow region.

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