The Heroic Deed of Moscow (from the series "The Heroic Cities").

The Heroic Deed of Moscow (from the series "The Heroic Cities"). , 1975 (18:29)

Annotation: About the heroic deeds of the Muscovites during the Great Patriotic War (Soviet people’s participation in World War II in 1941-1945) who made a stand for the capital of the USSR Moscow against enemies [fascists].

Source description 1: Sleeping girls in a kindergarten. A branch with yellow maple leaves. A swan. Muscovites rest in city squares. A monument in the territory of 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I. M. Sechenov.
A men mows a grass. A birch. A tractor ploughs the ground. A monument. A near Moscow landscape with a river. Cows on a pasture.
Newsreel of 1941-1945: an explosion, a bird flies, a German soldier, a bell tower - a bell ringer rings the bells. Fascist flags on the buildings. A city destroyed by fascists – shot from the helicopter. There are fascists, shoot captives. A camp of prisoners of war, there pass Germans. A German map.
A poster "The Motherland calls!", there pass Soviet soldiers. A birch wood. A sunset a river.
A chronicle of 1941-1945: Spasskaya Tower. Anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of a building, balloons are carried along the Gorky street, transports pass. Muscovites - fighters of a national home guard take weapon - guns, grenades. Civil guardsmen pass; work at the construction of defensive installations, the decree of the state committee of defence on October, 20th, 1941 The Germans in Moscow suburbs. German command present awards.
A document from German archive – a cartoon.
The Monument to the heroes of battle near Moscow.
A winter country landscape. A photo of hero of Panfilov’s division political instructor of a company Vasily Klochkov with the daughter. Soviet soldiers swear. Military parade on The Red Square on the 7th of November, 1974 – passage of military equipment across The Red Square, naval paratroopers stand.
A chronicle of 1941: the military parade in Moscow on the 7th of November, 1941 – Joseph Stalin, S. M. Budyonny on the rostrum of the Mausoleum, there march fighters. Moscow in 1941 - defensive installations in snow-covered streets, tanks pass along the Gorky Street Bitter by the monument to Pushkin. A poster "Not surrender Moscow”. There are go soldiers in camouflage cloaks. Balloons in the air. Beams of projectors in the night sky. German planes above the city. Operations of Soviet gunners. Inscription "Metro". A woman with the child in arms goes down into the metro. Muscovites take cover from bombardment in the station "Mayakovskaya". Work in the shops of military factories, women work at the assemblage of shells, rifles. A tank in a shop of a factory. Gunners on the front load a gun, the gun shoots. A tank pass through a wire entanglement, attack of infantry. A coal production in a mine. A consist passes against a background of oil derricks. There work a metallurgist, a woman-welder. An armoured train comes out a depot. Shop of a factory - inscription "Front need – we’ll do!"
A shop of the factory "Red proletarian" - there go workers, veterans. A shop of the factory "Compressor". Workers-veterans tell about heavy conditions in which "Katusha" canon were assembled in 1941. Workers at work. A monument to "Katyusha".
Newsreel of 1941 - 1945: captive Germans. "Iron crosses" awards for Moscow which and have not been presented. Soviet soldiers in liberated districts knock down German tablets, tear off decrees. A man reads a newspaper with the message on the failure of the German plan to capture Moscow. The newspaper, photos.
Interview with a twice Hero of Soviet Union the general of army Beloborodov who took part in the battle near Moscow.
Newsreel of 1941 - 1945: the broken German military equipment, the killed German, there go captive Germans. A German soldier lying on the tank burns.

Source description 2: A honorary holder of Order of Glory V. P. Behtin near the monument to the defenders of Moscow on the 41st km of the Leningrad highway.
Newsreel of 1941-1945: a settlement is on fire, soldiers run in the middle of fire, a tank passes. "Katusha" shoot, a wounded man is carried. Soviet soldiers in the streets of Berlin lift up the commander. The building of Reichstag, inscriptions on it.
Moscow: avenues, streets, squares of the city, a report. Poet A. Surkov passes along the streets of Moscow. Nameboards of the streets: Natasha Kochuevskaya Street, Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyanskys Street, Gastello Street. A. V. Suvorova, mother of the five children who have fallen in the Second World War, considers their photos, tells about their volunteering to the front. Notification on the death of the children. A. Suvorova cries.
Newsreel of 1965: A torch with the Eternal Light is carried. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin wall. Leonid Brezhnev fires the Eternal Light. People at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Veterans lay flowers.
Newsreel of 1941 - 1945: A nurse bandages a wounded man, a Party-membership card is pulled out a pocket; soldiers near a body of the lost comrade. A Komsomol [Young Communist League] membership card of the lost soldier. The Eternal Light in Moscow, young people near the fire, faces of young men.
Newsreel of 1945: a standard is raised above Reichstag, Soviet soldiers are photographed near the building of Reichstag.
A banner of the Victory in the Central museum of Armed forces of the USSR. A meeting of veterans with youth in the museum. The Hall of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses during the World Congress of the peace, participants of the congress applaud upright, L. I. Brezhnev speaks. Workers of different professions at work. Demonstration on The Red Square - banners, transparencies, flowers are carried. The governmental rostrum of the Mausoleum. Brezhnev welcomes demonstrators. The Exhibition of Economic Achievements.
Festive fireworks. Smiling faces of children.

Directors: Khodyakov V.

Operators: Baykov V., Gorbatskiy V., Myakishev G., Khodyakov V.

Script writers: Ilinskiy V., Khodyakov V.

Announcer: Khmara L.