The mobile brigades of the ensemble performed in units of the Red Army, NKVD troops, people's militia formations, and on the front lines. They were the first to arrive in besieged Leningrad and Kronstadt, where, despite air raids, they gave almost two hundred concerts. And in total, during the war years, they performed more than one thousand seven hundred times. The ensemble's performances were heard on radio programs more than a hundred times, with broadcasts to foreign countries as well
For their successful work during the Great Patriotic War and participation in the defense of Moscow and Leningrad, members of the ensemble were awarded medals “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For the Defense of Leningrad”, and “For Victory over Germany”