
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.

as Afanasiy Aleshkin

as Ivan Strelbitskiy

as Ivan Starchak

as Masha Grigoryeva

as Sashka Lavrov

as Mitya Shemyakin

as Museridze

as Shapovalov

as Vasily Smirnov

as Nikitina

as Dementyev

as Liza Aleshkina

as Uglov

as Eliseev

as Yakhin

as Bogatov

as Simonov

as Slavik Nikitin

as Azamat Khalilov

as Ibragimov

as Vasilkov

as officer

as nurse

as Orlenko

as Kalinin

as Andrey Tkachenko

as Nosov

as Wehrmacht soldier

as nurse

as Shipilov

as Remizov

as Zuev

as Petrov

as Erokhin

as Ozerov

as Lev Novikov


as Verner













as Ufimtsev










as cook officer

as Karpovna

as Mamchich

as Mamedov

as Vera

as Volkov

as Vova