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In this post I want to tell of some remnants from the World War II that lie on the territory of modern Moscow. Not many of them remain, and only a small number of people know about them.   In October 1941, the forces of the German army group "Center" managed to break through the defense of Soviet troops and surrounded four Soviet armies near the town of Vyazma in the Smolensk region. More than 380,000 people were killed or wounded, and more than 600,000 people were captured. Total irretrievable losses amounted to more than one million people. The road to Moscow was open for the Germans to advance. The Soviet command took emergency measures to strengthen the Mozhaisk line of defense and restore the disturbed front, throwing, against the German tank divisions, poorly armed militias, and cadets from military schools. At the same time, the Moscow Defense Zone was created in the capital. It was an operative compound of troops and fortifications created for the defense of both t...

    Lublino Cemetery is a cemetery in the southeastern administrative district of Moscow. It was founded in 1635. The area of the cemetery is 19 hectares. Old Lublino Cemetery, as shown on a topographic map of Moscow and the surrounding area in 1931, was demolished. Now there are blocks of flats on that place inside the boundaries of   Krasnodonskaya, Sportivnaya and Taganrog Streets.       During 1945-1949, about 600 prisoners of war who fought against the Soviet Union during the great Patriotic War were buried at the Lublino cemetery.     According to official statistics of the Office for Prisoners of War and Interned of the Ministry of internal Affairs of the USSR of October 12, 1959, 2,389,560 German soldiers were taken prisoner, and 356,678 of them died in captivity. Mortality in the first years of the war was especially high. Even Soviet citizens starved, not to speak about enemy POWs.  Due to the sever...