October 1941. After the Germans broke through the Western and Bryansk fronts, a gap was formed in the Soviet defense in the area of defense from Yukhnov to Maloyaroslavets. Moscow was only 200 kilometers away from the virtually unprotected Warsaw highway. In this dangerous situation, the command of the red army was forced to raise the alarm of cadets of the Podolsk artillery and Podolsk infantry schools and, forming from them a combined detachment of 3,500 people, throw it to the defense of the Mozhaisk line near the village of Ilinskoe. The fascists could not believe for a long time that their invincible armored Armada was able to stop the UN-shot 'red Junkers', who had not yet managed to get their first officer's rank…Now, after the passage of time and thanks to the publication of the materials of the Central archive of the Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation and the release of the film "Podolsk cadets", we realize to whom we owe that the Germans did not enter Moscow.