Moscow Moscow was a city in Russia , a human nation of Earth , and the Soviet Union , during the 20th century . It was the capital city for the various political powers that ruled Russia . History . The Eighth Doctor met a girl , Dusha , living in Moscow during Napoleon ' s advance on the city , whom he later found was the emotional half of a Magellan who had been divided and exiled from the future to two different time zones . ( PROSE : " Emotional Chemistry " ) In 1907 or 1908 , three women were murder ed in Moscow in a similar manner to the death s recorded previously in St Petersburg and soon to be repeated in London by Charrl invaders . ( PROSE : " Birthright " ) In 1941 , Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa , the invasion of the Soviet Union , with their target being Moscow . However , the winter set in as they neared Moscow , which brought the Wehrmacht to a halt and allowed the Red Army to push them back from the city . ( PROSE : " Just War " ) The Eighth Doctor visited Moscow in 1951 . ( PROSE : " Endgame " ) During the first seconds of 1 January 2000 , Moscow , along with the rest of the world , was nearly destroyed by the Eye of Harmony . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) Moscow was the first city to become aware of a supply shortage when the T - Mat s stopped functioning . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) The Fifth Doctor visited Moscow some time in the 21st century . ( AUDIO : " Singularity " ) The Eighth Doctor visited Moscow in 1812 and 2024 . ( PROSE : " Emotional Chemistry " ) Moscow was one of ten major cities across the world , all of which had underground railways , where Coldfire Construction built a reactor within a period of 18 months as part of a plot by the Slitheen to drain the Sun ' s energy , operated by at least one Slitheen disguised using a skin suit made from a local . At somepoint in 2008 , after Sarah Jane Smith foiled the Slitheen with the help of her friends at Park Vale Comprehensive School at Ealing in London , she contacted UNIT so they would clear up the Coldfire sites . ( TV : " Revenge of the Slitheen " ) A map showing the location of Moscow appeared on a screen a UNIT HQ in Geneva . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Alternate timelines . In an alternative timeline created by the Player s in which the Duke of Wellington was assassinated on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo , Napoléon Bonaparte conquered Russia at some point after 1815 . A victory parade was held in his honour in Moscow . While in Moscow , Napoléon contracted pneumonia , of which he eventually died . ( PROSE : " World Game " ) In an alternative timeline in which Nazi Germany won World War II as a result of the Seventh Doctor and Ace accidentally leaving laser technology in Colditz Castle in October 1944 , the Nazi scientists were able to refine uranium and create nuclear weapon s . They subsequently bombed Moscow , forcing the surrender of the Soviet Union and winning the war for Germany . ( AUDIO : " Klein ' s Story " ) In an alternate timeline where the Dalek s , led by and the Dalek Time Controller , took over Earth from Paris in 1921 , Moscow became one of the main centres of Dalek production . There was initial resistance from the human s but they were eventually quelled with fire s across the city remaining by 1961 . By that time , the planet had become " New Skaro " with the remaining humans being forced to construct the Daleks ' factories alongside alien slave s such as Sontaran s and Draconian s . ( AUDIO : " Master of the Daleks " )