Moscow’s air defence was a priority for the Soviet military practically from the moment the state capital was moved there. As early as the 1920s and 1930s, construction of an entire system began. Citizens of the USSR attached great importance to the defence of their capital during the Second World War and in the subsequent post-war years. One of its elements was air defence, later supplemented by missile defence. After the collapse of the USSR and the emergence of Russia, nothing changed. The