The Podolsk Cadets

7 hrs. 34 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Authors Igor Ugolnikov, Vadim Shmelev

Author Igor Ugolnikov

Author Vadim Shmelev

Narrator Alexander Vorobyov

Description

October 1941. After the German breakthrough of the Western and Bryansk fronts along the defense 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 sound the alarm for cadets of the Podolsk artillery and Podolsk infantry schools and, forming from them a combined detachment of 3,500 men, throw it into the defense of the Mozhaisk line in the area of the village of Ilyinskoe. For a long time, the fascists couldn’t believe that their invincible armored armada had been stopped by untrained “red cadets,” who at that time still hadn’t received their first officer rank…

Now, after the passage of time and thanks to the publication of materials from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the release of the film “Podolsk Cadets,” we understand who we owe it to—that the Germans never reached Moscow.

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