The Podolsk Cadets
7 hrs. 34 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Igor Ugolnikov
Author
Vadim Shmelev
Narrator
Alexander Vorobyov
Narrator
Alexander Vorobyov
Description
October 1941. After the Germans broke through the Western and Bryansk Fronts along the defensive line from Yukhnov to Maloyaroslavets, a gap formed in the Soviet defense. Only 200 kilometers remained to Moscow—along the barely defended Warsaw Highway. In this dangerous situation, the command of the Red Army was forced to put the Podolsk Artillery School and the Podolsk Infantry School cadets on alert, and, forming from them a combined detachment of 3,500 men, throw it onto the defense of the Mozhaisk Line near the village of Ilyinskoye. The fascists for a long time could not believe that their invincible armored armada had been stopped by untested “Red cadets”—by that time they still hadn’t even received their first officer rank…
Now, with the benefit of hindsight, and thanks to the publication of materials from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the release of the film “Podolsk Cadets,” we realize whom we owe the fact that the Germans never entered Moscow.
Now, with the benefit of hindsight, and thanks to the publication of materials from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the release of the film “Podolsk Cadets,” we realize whom we owe the fact that the Germans never entered Moscow.
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