Concert at Mayakovskaya metro station in honor of the anniversary of the start of the counteroffensive near Moscow on

Concert at Mayakovskaya metro station in honor of the anniversary of the start of the counteroffensive near Moscow on . December 5 is the day the Red Army’s counteroffensive began in the Battle of Moscow. The Battle of Moscow is the largest in the history of the Great Patriotic War, with more than 7 million people taking part. Almost a million of our soldiers gave their lives to turn the tide of the war - Hitler suffered his first serious defeat near Moscow. During the encirclement of Moscow, the metro was used as a bomb shelter. Inside the metro, there was a library, chess and dance clubs, concerts and performances were held, everything was done to keep Muscovites from losing heart. During the day, Moscow residents installed anti-tank hedgehogs, dug defensive ditches, mined the main buildings (in case of a German breakthrough, everything was planned to be blown up), and at night and in the event of a missile threat, they went down to the metro to live their normal lives. ... Source: Siberian matrёshka?