Alternative History
Battle of Moscow
RIAN archive 887721 Defense of Moscow
Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Hotel Moskva
Date 2 October 1941 - 2 April 1942 (6 months and 5 days)
Location Moscow, Soviet Union
Result German Victory
Death of Stalin
Beginning of the fall of the Soviet Union
Belligerents
Nazi Germany German Reich Soviet Union Soviet Union
Commanders and leaders
  • Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
  • Nazi Germany Franz Halder
  • Nazi Germany Walther von Brauchitsch
  • Nazi Germany Fedor von Bock
  • Nazi Germany Heinz Guderian
  • Nazi Germany Walter Model
  • Nazi Germany Gunther von Kluge
  • Nazi Germany G.H. Reinhardt
  • Nazi Germany Adolf Strauss
  • Nazi Germany Wilhelm Ritter von Reeb
  • Nazi Germany Hermann Goring


The Battle of Moscow was a decisive military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during WWII between October 1941 and April 1942.