Schoolchildren And Students Have Reached The Battle For Moscow

Schoolchildren and students re-conquered the battle
For Moscow.

Exactly seventy years ago the beginning of one of the decisive battles of the Great Patriotic War - the battle for Moscow - was laid. Thanks to the success of the Soviet troops, the Germans lost their strategic initiative in conducting military operations. The past decades have not dispelled the hearts of Muscovites pride in the events of the distant 1941 ...

The Methodical Center "Education and Career" with the support of the Department of Family and Youth Policy in Moscow has developed an idea and implemented a non-trivial project. This is a military-patriotic game for young people - the reconstruction of the battle for Moscow, which took place this month. The large-scale program was named "Feat under Moscow" and attracted about six hundred young Muscovites. The main objectives of the project were to increase the amount of knowledge of young people about the events of the Great Patriotic War and increase its patriotic consciousness.

After the presentation of the events, within the framework of the project "Feat under Moscow", classes were held on the history of the legendary battle. It is noteworthy that the information was given to the children not in the form of tiring lectures, but in the format of a game that reconstructs the battle with the help of tin soldiers. The lessons were not without important discussions: could there be a different strategic alignment of the Soviet troops? What were the consequences of the change in strategy? Was there any other options for the battle? Controversial questions about the war appear until now.

Specially for the children - participants of the "Podvig near Moscow" specialists have developed an illustrated manual "The Battle of Moscow. Strategy and Tactics "- for a more thorough study of the events of 1941 and preparations for participation in the military-patriotic game.

Historical reconstruction of the Battle of Moscow in Solnechnogorsk district
Moscow region became the logical end of the project and was held in four stages for a hundred
Twenty direct participants.

Modern Russian cinema is not striking in the variety of films about the Great Patriotic War, the role of the army in the patriotic education of the youth has fallen. A modern young man is more interested in doing parkour or being carried away with an action-packed computer game than opening a book on military history. In this regard, the development of the military-patriotic game "Feat under Moscow" is especially important, because Includes interactive technology involving young people in the history of the fatherland.