The film tells about the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow in the winter of 1941. Memories of participants in the defense of Moscow (synchronously). Monuments at the mass graves of soldiers who died near Moscow. Monument in honor of the Panfilov Heroes in the village of Nelidovo, Moscow Region. Streets of Moscow. named after the participants of the Moscow battle. Moscow Kremlin. Monuments to Yu. Dolgoruky, AS Pushkin, V. Mayakovsky. Summer cafes on Kalininsky Prospekt, veterans of the Great Patriotic War on Red Square. The film uses newsreel footage: fighting on the streets of Berlin in 1945, Field Marshal V. Keitel signs the act of unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, the Soviet banner over the Reichstag building, A. Hitler's speech on the podium, ranks " Hedgehogs "and other anti-tank obstacles on the streets of Moscow, enrollment of volunteers in the people's militia, Muscovites work on the construction of defensive structures, militia units on Moscow streets, the movement of columns of fascist troops along the road, fascist planes drop bombs, burning villages, explosions on the battlefield, parade Red Army on Red Square on November 7, 1941, camouflaged buildings of the Bolshoi Theater, the Lenin Mausoleum, anti-aircraft guns in the streets, people fleeing to a bomb shelter, making shells in the workshop of a defense plant, fighting by Soviet troops.