Klin, Klinsky District, Moscow Oblast
Klin is a town and the administrative center of Klinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located 85 kilometers (53 mi) northwest of Moscow. Population: 80,585 (2010 Russian census); 83,178 (2002 Census); 94,908 (1989 Soviet census); 94,000.
Sovetskaya Square in Klin
Museum of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Klin
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
Soviet anti-aircraft gunners on the roof of the Hotel Moskva
German armored column advances on the Moscow front, October 1941.
Moscow women dig anti-tank trenches around their city in 1941.
Anti-tank obstacles in a Moscow street, October 1941