Internet and Memory of Russia: Moscow's Main Archive Directorate released names of all rear workers awarded with the medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

More than half a million names of rear workers awarded with the medal "For the Defence of Moscow" were released in the virtual museum "Moscow - Taking Care of History".

The battle of Moscow ended on April 20, 1942. Soviet troops withdrew the German army from the capital and liberated Moscow and Tula regions, as well as several districts of Kalinin (now Tver) and Smolensk regions. On this day, the Moscow's Main Archive Directorate of Moscow presented a project, which reveals the names of rear workers in the virtual museum "Moscow - Taking Care of History". All these people distinguished themselves in the construction of defensive constructions on the capital's outskirts during the battle of Moscow. It promotes the list with a brief biography. It includes the year of birth, nationality, working position and a description of the feat.

Besides the lists, the museum released 30 videos in which Moscow school students read letters by children of their ages, who saw the Germans in the Solnechnogorsk district of Moscow Region in November 1941.

Also, the virtual museum broadcasts a film about the defence of Moscow. It is based on interviews of two women - veterans of the Great Patriotic War - Apollinaria Kartseva and Larisa Martirosyan. They both defended Moscow. The interactive map shows the preserved defensive constructions.

600 thousand capital residents, including more than 400 thousand women, went to the defence construction in October 1941. They constructed near Moscow 676 kilometres of anti-tank ditches (the approximate distance from Moscow to Cheboksary). Citizens built a defensive line until the end of the Battle of Kursk in 1943 when the German army finally lost the opportunity to seize the capital.