New version of the 1942 film. Moscow city. October 1941. Kremlin. Red Square. Sverdlov Square. Gorkogo Street. Residents are preparing the city for defense: they build barricades, defensive structures on the streets of the city and on the outskirts of the city. Recording volunteers in the militia, obtaining weapons, uniforms. Making shells at a defense plant, women are working at the machines. JV Stalin's speech at the microphone (synchronously). The movement of infantry, tanks, cavalry, skiers, motorized infantry along the streets of the city. Defensive structures. Moscow region. October 1941 - January 1942. Combat operations of infantry, artillery, cavalry, aviation, tanks, movement of the Red Army formations. Generals: P. A. Belov, I. V. Boldin, L. A. Govorov, V. I. Kuznetsov, F. I. Golikov, I. S. Konev, Yushkevich, G. K. Zhukov, K. K. Rokossovsky at command posts. Battles for the cities: Istra, Tulu, Rogachev, Yakhroma, Mozhaisk, Epifan, Kalinin, Volokolamsk, Mikhailov and other settlements of the Moscow region. Combat operations of the Armed Forces of Germany. Terrorist and punitive actions of German troops. Destroyed and burned down houses, killed and shot Red Army men and civilians, orphaned children; destroyed: the New Jerusalem Monastery (Moscow region), the PI Tchaikovsky House-Museum in the town of Klin, the Leo Tolstoy House-Museum in Yasnaya Polyana; a memorial meeting at the gallows with hanged civilians in the city of Volokolamsk. Liberated cities. Residents are returning to the liberated settlements. Captured German soldiers. Broken and captured German vehicles. Presentation of the Guards Banner to the Cavalry Corps of General P. A. Belov. Rewarding of the Red Army and pilots.