Video: 'The Unknown War - The Battle for Moscow - 04/05' (Soviets counterattack at 1:43)

(Friday, December 5, 1941, 3:00 a.m. Moscow Standard Time; during the Battle of Moscow, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — With German forces on the doorstep of Moscow, the Soviet Red Army launched a massive counter-offensive early this morning on the Kalinin Front, effectively putting Operation Typhoon (the attack on Moscow) and Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of the Soviet Union) to an end.

Video: 'Operation Typhoon and Soviet Counteroffensive, December 5th 1941'

The South-Western Front and Western Fronts began their offensives the next day, Sat. Dec. 6, 1941.

Video: 'At the Gates of Moscow - Furthest German Advance 1941'

Video: 'World War II - Blitzkrieg to the Bomb Documentary' (Soviet counteroffensive at 29:17)

Video: 'The World at War: Barbarossa: June-December 1941 (5 of 26)' (Soviet counteroffensive at 48:38)