Muscovites volunteers on the defense of the Fatherland. 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division during the Great

On July 2, 1941, the Central Committee of the All -Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks invited local party organizations to lead the creation of the people"s militia, and on the same day the Military Council of the Moscow Military District adopted a decree on voluntary mobilization of the inhabitants of Moscow and the region in the People’s Militia. " By mid -July, 12 divisions of the People’s Militia were formed in Moscow, which departed into the army. September 30, 1941? The offensive of German troops began in Moscow, in the repression of which all the militia divisions participated. By the end of October 5, 1941? There was no strength between the enemy and the Mozhaisk line of defense that could stop or detain the enemy. On October 13, a meeting of the asset of the Moscow Party Organization was held, which adopted a resolution on the mobilization of all communists, Komsomol members and workers in Moscow to protect the capital. By October 16, communist battalions were formed in all areas of Moscow, which on the night of October 17 had departed to the front. On November 14, these battalions were combined into the 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division. The proposed book for the first time on the basis of archival data and memoirs tells about the formation and combat path of the 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division, which has become the end of the war of the 53rd Guards Red Banner Tartusk Rifle Division