To the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory From the history of the Battle for Moscow, it is well known what role was played by the heroic resistance of the defenders of the capital to the enemy on the Volokolamsk Highway. But in the same autumn days of 1941, the fascist invaders tried to break through to the Soviet capital in other directions, in particular along the Warsaw Highway (primarily at the turn of the Nara River), the battles on which were less reflected in the press. On September 30, 1941, the enemy attacked the right wing of the Bryansk Front, and on October 2-on the Western and Reserve Fronts. On October 5, the Nazis captured Yukhnov on the Warsaw Highway. K. F. Telegin, who was then a member of the Military Council of the Moscow Military District and the Moscow Defense Zone, noted that the only real force capable of detaining the enemy until the Stavka reserves arrived in this direction was the Podolsk infantry and Artillery schools. They blocked the road to the Nazis in the area of Yukhnov and Maloyaroslavets, which turned out to be a surprise for the Nazis .1 Making another entry in his diary for October 5, the Chief of the General Staff of the German Land Forces F. Halder did not assume such a possibility, considering that "in front of the troops of the right flank... the enemy is no more. " 2Subsequently, noting the role of cadets of these schools in repelling the onslaught of the enemy on the Warsaw Highway, Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov wrote: "With their heroic self-sacrifice, they thwarted the plan to quickly capture Maloyaroslavets and helped our troops gain the time necessary to organize defense on the approaches to Moscow." 3 On October 10, the Supreme High Command Headquarters united the Western and Reserve Fronts into the Western, which was commanded by Army General Zhukov. It was decided to cover the main directions first of all. Major General K. D. Golubev's 43rd Army was deployed on Maloyaroslavskoye Highway, the axis of wh ... Читать далее