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| 1382 | Dimitri |  |
| Moscow The Mongols sack Moscow & end its independence |
| 1618 | Michael | |
| Moscow The Poles attack the city of Moscow |
| 1812 | Kutuzov | |
| 8th Sep Moscow The French forces burn Moscow |
| 1941 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| 15th Oct Moscow Prepares to evacuate his HQ from Moscow |
| 19th Oct Moscow A state of siege is declared |
| 19th Oct Moscow Beria brings in several regiments of the NKVD in to preserve order |
| 1941 | Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich | |
| Moscow Helps organize the defence of Moscow |
| 1941 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Sep Moscow Part of the administration is moved but Stalin stays in Moscow |
| 30th Sep Moscow The Germans begin their final offensive to take Moscow |
| 2nd Oct Moscow The operation "Taifun" to take Moscow commences |
| 8th Nov Moscow Announces, "If they want a war of extermination they shall have one" |
| 9th Nov Moscow Stages a symbollically important parade in Red Square |
| 15th Nov Moscow The Germans begin their 2nd offensive against Moscow |
| 25th Nov Moscow Some German units advance into the southern suburbs of Moscow |
| 5th Dec Moscow 720,000 Russian soldiers drive back 800,000 Germans |
| 5th Dec Moscow German forces lose mre than 500,000 men, Hitler's biggest loss to date |
| 5th Dec Moscow The German attack on Moscow is contained |
| 5th Dec Moscow The Soviet counter offensive hits the unsuspecting German army |
| 1941 | Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| Aug Moscow Ordered by Stalin to organize a new Bryansk Front to defend Moscow |
| 30th Sep Moscow Guderian takes Yeremenko by surprise when he begins to attack Moscow |
| 1941 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 6th Oct Moscow Ordered by Stalin from Leningrad to create a new western front to defend Moscow |
| 25th Nov Moscow Orders Rokossovsky to hold the line at Kryukovo with the remants his 16th Army |
| 25th Nov Moscow Orders that "there be no further falling back" |
| 6th Dec Moscow 1st Shock Army & the 16th Army attack the inner side of the German salient |
| 6th Dec Moscow Launches an attack of the German inner salient with the 16th Army |
