The words to the march were written by Alexey Surkov while the music was composed by Boris Mokrousov.
[1] In early October 1941, the Wehrmacht began their offensive to take control of Moscow.
It was later performed in an orchestra setting in the 1942 Soviet film, Moscow Strikes Back.
[4] The march is composed of four verses and a chorus which is as follows:[5] Мы не дрогнем в бою за столицу свою, Нам родная Москва дорога.
As an impregnable wall, with our steel-hard defences We will crush and annihilate the enemy!