Podolsk archive. Search for WWII participants who died during the fighting

The “Memory of the People” resource was created so that each user could find out where they fought and what awards their grandfathers or great-grandfathers who took part in the Great Patriotic War received. As part of the project, it was transferred to digital form such archival documentation as award lists, orders, operational descriptions of the situation on the battlefield and other original written evidence of the events of those years. The site allows each user to find information about their relatives and create a personal archive from documents presented on the site. And, if you want to learn how to use the “Memory of the People” resource to search for WWII participants by the names of those who returned from the war, then read on.

Project "Memory of the People"

To start the search, open https://pamyat-naroda.ru/, enter the “War Heroes” section or use the form on home page(at the same time, we will still be automatically transferred to “Heroes of War”). Enter the requested data (last name, first name, patronymic and year of birth) into the search bar of the People's Memory service and press the Enter key on the keyboard or LMB on the word “Find”.

If there is not enough data and it was not possible to find a participant in the hostilities, click “Clarify” and enter the information that we know:

1. The place where the fighter was born.
2. Assigned title.
3. Place of service.
4. The date when the participant left the unit or died.
5. Database entry ID.

In cases where this information is not enough, expand additional fields under the data entry form and fill each line with the information known to us.

In our case, only 4 documents were found. But it happens that the personal data of WWII participants coincides, and the search becomes difficult. Or there are a lot of documents, among which it is difficult to find what you need. To simplify the search, there is a panel located above the results.

If we need information about which unit was commanded by the WWII participant we are looking for, or what awards he had, then click on the desired section in the above panel and narrow the search range. When switching between these sections, on the right in the “Information Sources” block, the places where information about awards or combat activities of a WWII participant are obtained are displayed. Below the search results is a list of all the awards for which the fighter is nominated.

View and save documents

So, the search has been completed, and we have several of the results we need from the People’s Memory service. How to save them so as not to lose valuable information and always have access to it? Opposite each document there are icons with which you can:

1. View original.
2. Download the file to your computer (scanned copy of an act, order or other document in jpg format).
3. Add information about the participant in hostilities to your personal archive on the “Memory of the People” website.

If the load on the resource is too high, access to the personal archive and documents stored in it may be limited. Therefore, if information about a WWII participant is necessary for study or work, it is better to save it in a folder on your computer.

Detailed information about the war heroes on the People's Memory website

Now let’s see where on the “Memory of the People” resource there is more detailed information about the war hero found by last name. Click on the personal data of the WWII participant. A page opens where the last name, first name, patronymic and rank of the fighter are indicated.

Award details

Also here is information about the award that we selected in the search results: who awarded, when the feat was accomplished, information about the place of birth and call of the hero and other data, including the name of the archive from where this data was taken. Scrolling down the page, we see a scanned document. This is a line on the award list.

Switching between sections, we read:

1. “Feat” is a detailed description of the feat for which the fighter was nominated for an award, contained in a combat journal or other documents that reflected the course of military operations.
2. “The first page of an order or decree” - information about the front and combat unit in which the WWII participant served, as well as on behalf of whom and for what he was awarded.
3. “Award sheet” is a document indicating the presentation of an award, with the fighter’s personal data and a brief summary of the feat.

Documents from this page can be saved to your computer, scaled in height and/or width, and enlarged/reduced. It is also possible to view the originals of the submitted documents.

Combat path of the hero/unit

The “Memory of the People” resource allows us to track the combat path traveled by the hero and the unit in which he served. To do this, from the “Awarding Documents” section, go to “The Combat Path of the Hero/Unit.”

This page lists all the units in which the soldier served. Switching between them, we see his path and that's it fighting, in which he participated during the Second World War. Each of the coordinates of the military path means a specific battle. On the left in the table are the dates of operations linked to coordinates on the map.

The military path is shown from the very beginning (from the place of conscription at the regional military registration and enlistment office) to the victorious end. The scale of the map can be increased so that the outlines of the villages where battles took place or near which our army followed will be visible. This effect allows you to examine the course of the war in detail. Below the map there are symbols. Based on them, we understand at what time the fighter we are looking for was in the hospital, received awards, where he was born, where he was drafted from, and much more. Also in the panel above the map you can add a higher part, which included the formation where the war hero served, and a lower part. All these nuances make it possible to recreate a more complete picture of the events of the Second World War.

When you click on a specific path coordinate in the right top corner map we see a plate containing the following information:

1. The name of the unit where the soldier served.
2. Date of the battle indicated on the map.
3. The number of documents indicating this event.

After clicking on the number of found document parts, it is loaded next page with written evidence of specific battles. When searching for the required order/report/report, you can use general list or narrow your search by switching between section titles. That is, if we only need combat logs or maps/diagrams, then we click on the selected category and look for the document that is needed, or look through everything one by one in the Memory of the People. You can also use the convenient filter located to the right of the list of documents. By unchecking or checking the boxes in the sections we need, we narrow our search and find information faster.

By clicking on the title of a report or diagram, journal or order, we study the original evidence of those events, written or drawn by the participants in the war themselves. Based on available information, we will find out in which archive each of the documents is now located, and who compiled them. From this page you can save to your personal archive on the website the found written evidence of the combat path of a WWII participant by the name of those who returned from the war.

Thus, by searching on the “Memory of the People” website for WWII participants by the names of those who returned from the war, you can not only obtain information about the hero’s awards, but also track the progress of battles as fully as possible (as far as available documents allow) from the very place where the soldier was called up.

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How to find your relative - a participant in the Great Patriotic War by last name, how to find out information about his awards, military ranks, military path and place of death? This guide will help you collect as much as possible detailed information about your ancestor, a participant in the Second World War.

1 Sort out family archives

Ask your family and friends, sort through family archives and write down all the information which you will recognize. Pay special attention to letters and official documents from the front - the postal stamp contains the number of the military unit.

The transcript can be found on the website www.soldat.ru

2 Consult Databases

First of all, check the electronic archives:

Enter the veteran's information into the search fields.

If you don't find anything - try different spellings of your first name, last name and place of birth.

If the surname is common, use the advanced search and enter additional information.

Check your databases regularly— they are constantly updated and new information about your soldier may appear.

Look beyond the search results that appear at the top! Study the entire document - it's there additional information. If the document is multi-page, open front page— there may be a part number. Knowing the unit number, you can determine the unit's combat path.

Check out Memory Books— they are stored in military registration and enlistment offices, archives, and local history museums. Information about soldiers was entered into the books according to three criteria: place of birth, place of conscription and place of burial. If there is no information, contact the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War (Moscow, Pobeda Square, 3, index 121096) - all books published before 1996 are stored there.

3 Send a request to the official archives

• in the metric book (stored in regional archives)
• in civil registration records (stored in regional archives or in civil registry offices)
• in household books (stored in the archives of district administrations)
• in personal files (kept at companies)

4 Make a request to the military registration and enlistment office

Do written request to the military registration and enlistment office— indicate in it all the information you have about the veteran (full name, year and place of birth, place of conscription, rank, etc.).

If possible, visit the military registration and enlistment office in person. Before visiting, be sure to:

1. Copy the sheets of the draft books containing information about soldiers drafted on the same day as your relative.
2. Check all names through the Memorial OBD website (www.obd-memorial.ru)

There is a possibility that they were sent to the same place as your relative.

5 Find out where your relative served

Knowing the unit number (division, battalion, etc.), you can understand exactly where and when your ancestor fought. The battle path can be traced on the “Memory of the People” website

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This is why such an opportunity as searching for WWII veterans by last name in Russia (Great Patriotic War) in 2019 works.

What you need to know

IN Russian Federation there is a problem of finding those citizens who were participants in the hostilities. Basically, these are the dead and missing heroes of Russia.

The search may be of interest to those who are looking for information about their own relatives. And perhaps some records in the databases will help find the places of their burial or last place of stay. In addition, the bank of unawarded medals is still full.

In 2019, there are many Internet resources that allow you to search for information depending on the amount of data that a citizen has on hand.

Thanks to these systems for searching and storing information, each person can freely search and find information about their own relatives or help other people find theirs. Because their cases may have been forgotten in the archives for more than 20 years.

Important Concepts

During the consideration of this topic, regular user You may have difficulty understanding some terms. Decrypting them in advance will allow for faster processing. necessary information:

Where to start

Initially, you should understand that the search will be carried out across several sites and portals. Separate pieces of information have been collected on different resources.

And if you didn’t manage to find a relative the first time, then you can try another site. Mandatory components of the search must include information about the participant in the war.

Various resources allow you to find data of this nature:

• about the dead and missing;
• those who worked in the rear;
• received awards;
• those killed in German concentration camps;
• about decorated living combatants.

You can search for all these indicators. Therefore, you need to decide in which area the work will take place. this operation. After this, you can proceed to select the required portal to search.

It is better to make a list of several - this will increase the options for matches and information verification. Plus, some sites may have an incomplete database and lack any details.

Legislative framework

The Immortal Regiment in Russia acts as a public patriotic organization. In this regard, their work, and the work of the resources of these institutions, is subject to accounting from the point of view of Federal Law No. 82-FZ “On Public Associations”.

This legal document allows the creation international relations between societies - in accordance with Article 46. This makes it possible to exchange information and information on various issues.

Many discrepancies exist within the framework of the activities of such resources with Federal Law No. 152-FZ “On Personal Data”. Article 8 defines the categories of sources of such information that are available to all people. These can be considered reference books and databases. In this case, it will be necessary to obtain consent to publish information.

In most cases, Internet resources post data based on requests from citizens - relatives of the deceased, who want to provide information about their ancestor.

But there are also situations when government documents are declassified. In this case it applies Federal law No. 261-FZ “On Amendments to the Federal Law “On Personal Data””. Article 9, paragraph 7, talks about consent in the event of a person's death.

How to find WWII veterans by last name

Searching by last name is one of the most difficult options. The fact is that the more information there is about a citizen, the easier it is to find him. Plus, the surname can be quite common.

And this complicates the search, since the scatter will be large. It is worth considering that on different sites the databases consist of different quantities information about people. Thus, the data ranges from 9 to 13 million people.

In order for the procedure to be successful, it is worth clarifying the following list of data in advance:

• last name, first name and patronymic;
• date of birth - year, month and day;
• place of residence or from which locality he was called up for service, in which unit he served.

This minimum set data that will allow you to find the necessary WWII veteran. Next, you can decide on the search method option. Because there are a lot of them for 2019.

Through the archives of military operations

Archival documentation allows you to find information about those who served in different years, in accordance with the hostilities in which they took part. The history of the veteran can be traced through the records about him.

Such data is mainly stored in Moscow:

These are the main archives, but there are many of them around the country, so you should search according to the citizen’s place of service. This can be done by contacting the military commissariat that called him up.

Mechanism of action through sites

Thanks to websites, you can get information about a person without leaving home. In this case, you will only need a set of existing information and time. Next, you need to select the portal through which the search is carried out. And after that, information about the person is entered into the search form.

For example, Ivanov, drafted in 1943. The system generates a list, by viewing which you can find your relative. If such an operation does not give the desired result, you should try using another site.

Memorial

OBD Memorial allows you to find information about a citizen using a short list of data:

• year of birth;
• rank.

Using this information, data is obtained about the fate of a person - whether he is in the database of the dead or missing.

Photo: search for WWII veterans by last name on the Memorial website

There is also an advanced search option, which includes entering data about:

• in which documents to search;
• place of conscription, burial;
• date and place of disposal;
• Which hospitals were you in?

It is possible to search for prisoners in the camps:

Photo: search for prisoners in camps on the Memorial website

Winners

This site was created for the 60th anniversary of the Victory and has more than 1.5 million WWII veterans. Information is included about those who were in Russia and about those who are now considered citizens of another country.

The search has a standard form that asks you to write the veteran’s name and select his region of residence:

There is also an interactive map of military operations on this site. With its help you can view the progress of troops. And each stage is accompanied by a detailed commentary.

Photo: interactive map of military operations on the Pobeditel website

Feat of the people

This online resource contains more than 12.5 million records of exploits, and as of 2015, statistics established that more than 500 thousand undelivered awards found their owners using this site.

The portal contains three divisions:

• people and awards;
• documents;
• geography of military operations.

All known data can be used for searching. There are both standard and advanced searches:

Photo: search for WWII veterans by last name on the Feat of the People website

Initially, you need to go to the organization’s website and click on the people and awards button. Then a standard search will appear, giving you the opportunity to expand it and enter more information about the veteran.

Other options

The My Regiment website involves searching not only military personnel, but also those who lived and worked in the rear. Here you can find information about dead, missing and living people.

Photo: search for WWII veterans by last name on the My Regiment website

At the standard level, you can enter any information about a person, and then conduct an advanced search indicating ranks, place of residence, and so on. Plus, you can tell your story about a WWII veteran from your own family. To do this, register on the site and write a story.

Is it possible to search by awards?

The easiest way to find a veteran is by awards. If there are insignia left or it is known that a rank has been assigned, then such a search will be effective. After all, this will uniqueize the citizen’s request and a more thorough search will be carried out in the database.

On this page we have collected resources that will help you find a soldier (deceased relative or friend), search for those killed and missing in the Great Patriotic War.

Volunteer project “Archive Battalion”

The volunteer project “Archive Battalion” to restore information about participants in wars of the 20th century accepts and processes applications for research into the combat path of participants in the Great Patriotic War.

Memory of the people

The People's Memory project was implemented in accordance with the decision of the Russian Victory Organizing Committee of July 2013, supported by the instructions of the President and the Decree of the Russian Government in 2014. The project provides for the publication on the Internet of archival documents and documents about the losses and awards of soldiers and officers of the First World War, the development of the projects previously implemented by the Russian Ministry of Defense about the Second World War OBD Memorial and Feat of the People into one project - Memory of the People.

Feat of the people

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation presents a unique information resource open access, filled with all the documents available in the military archives about the progress and results of the main military operations, the exploits and awards of all soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. As of August 8, 2012, the data bank contains information on 12,670,837 awards.

Generalized database "Memorial"

The generalized data bank contains information about the defenders of the Fatherland who died and disappeared during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period. The work was done on a large scale: collected and translated into electronic view tens of thousands of documents, totaling more than 10 million sheets. Contained in them personal information amounted to more than 20 million records.

Immortal Regiment of Russia

The all-Russian public civil-patriotic movement “Immortal Regiment of Russia” collects stories about participants in the Great Patriotic War. The database is updated daily. Here you can not only add your veteran soldier to the all-Russian “piggy bank”, but also search through existing ones.

Electronic book of memory “Immortal Regiment - Moscow”

“Immortal Regiment - Moscow” together with the “My Documents” State Service Centers are collecting information about residents of the capital who took part in the Great Patriotic War. Now there are already more than 193 thousand names in the archive.

“Soldat.ru” - database of those killed in the Second World War

Soldat.ru is the oldest portal on the Russian Internet for establishing the fate of dead and missing military personnel and searching for their loved ones.

"The Winners" - Soldiers of the Great War

With our project we want to thank by name the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War living next to us and talk about their feat. The “Winners” project was created for the 60th anniversary of the Victory. Then we managed to collect lists of more than a million veterans living near us.

The site also contains a stunning interactive and animated map of the fighting of the Great Patriotic War.

Electronic memorial “Remember About”

On the social website “PomniPro”, each registered user can create a memory page, a photo gallery of a deceased loved one, talk about his biography, honor the memory of the deceased, leave words of memory and gratitude. You can also find a deceased relative and friend, search for those killed and missing in the Great Patriotic War.

Memorial of the Great Patriotic War

The site is conceived as a people's encyclopedia, a virtual Memorial to the fallen participants Great War, where everyone can leave their comments on any entry, supplement information about the War Participant with photographs and memories, and turn to other project participants for help. There are about 60,000 project participants. More than 400,000 cards have been registered.

MIPOD "Immortal Regiment"

The site has a large database of participants in the Great Patriotic War. The chronicle is maintained by community members. Now there are already more than 400 thousand names in the archive.

Find a soldier. A reminder for those who are looking for their heroes

1. Check the data on the OBD Memorial website

When checking data about a person, open the “advanced search” tab and make attempts by typing only the last name, then the last name and first name, then the full data. Also try to check the information by setting the last name parameters, and the first and patronymic parameters only with initials.

2. Send a request to the archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The request must be sent to the address: 142100 Moscow region, Podolsk, Kirova St., 74. "Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation."

Enclose the letter in the envelope, clearly stating the information you have and stating the purpose of the request. Insert one empty envelope, filling out your home address, as the recipient's address.

3. Check the data on the “Feat of the People” website

If you do not have information on awards, you can go to the “Feat of the People” website. In the “People and Awards” tab, enter the information requested.

4. Check parameter information

There are additional ways, which can also help you find and identify information about your veteran. The website “Soldat.ru” presents a list of search technologies, we draw your attention to some of them:

• Database of Internet links to school museums of the Russian Federation, which have exhibitions about the combat routes of units and formations of the Soviet Army
• How to establish the fate of a serviceman who died or went missing during the Great Patriotic War
• Information on materials held by the International Red Cross Tracing Service
• Request forms for search, evacuation and search of graves through the Tracing and Information Center of the Russian Red Cross (

Several years ago, a project began, the goal of which was to make available for review a list of Soviet soldiers awarded military orders and medals during the Great Patriotic War. For this purpose, an electronic document bank was created, which digital form contains orders for awards and other documents about soldiers who distinguished themselves in battle. All information in the form of a database is available on the website "Feat of the People" a search by the name of the awardee will give a fairly complete result.

Information can be searched both by the name of the awardee and by the number or date of the order. If you want to receive detailed information about what feat or military distinction your relative who participated in the Great Patriotic War was awarded for, then on the main page select the item “People and awards” and in the form that opens, enter his last name - first name - patronymic (see figure below)

Next, a list of all records that are related to the entered data will open. Of course, namesakes of the gentleman about whom you want to receive information may also be present. If the database contains information on several awards, then there will be a separate line for each award. As can be seen in the example given (see image below), the list of awards of three times Hero of the Soviet Union A.I. Pokryshkin, interspersed with four distinctions received by his namesake Alexander Ivanovich, junior sergeant born in 1911.

By clicking the cursor on the selected line, you can read in the document that opens the description of the feat for which the award was made.

Also, there is access to very detailed accompanying documents, such as award certificates.

In addition to searching by name, it is possible to get acquainted with a large number orders, which are grouped by dates, as well as orders and medals that were awarded. To do this, you need to select the name of the specific award and the period you are interested in.

Eventually it will become available full list orders containing information about the awarding of this award at a specified time.

Address help service - http://podvignaroda.mil.ru but the “Feat of the People” portal, created in 2010, is only one of the projects that allows you to find out the fates of loved ones who participated in the Great Patriotic War, trace their military path, and read descriptions of the feats for which they were awarded. Thus, feel the connection between times and generations, realize the history of your family as part of great history of his homeland. Even earlier, in 2007, on the initiative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the “Memorial” website was created, containing an electronic database of soldiers killed during the war. It was created with the goal of enabling descendants living today to learn about the final resting place of their ancestors - the fallen defenders of the Fatherland, to establish the fate of missing relatives and friends, and, most importantly, to help preserve their memory.

OBD "Memorial" search for those killed in the Great Patriotic War

http://www.obd-memorial.ru- “Memorial is a website of the Ministry of Defense for searching by last name, first name and patronymic of the burial place of a deceased soldier, on which information is searched. The search is also available for a large number of other input data - date and place of birth, date and place of conscription into the army, last place of service, military rank, date of death, country, region and place of burial. Information in the generalized data bank (GDB) contains digital copies of documents from a large number of sources - reports from combat units about irretrievable losses, documents from hospitals and medical battalions, trophy cards of Soviet prisoners of war, burial passports of military personnel, orders for delisting, exhumation protocols, and other archival documents .

A query to the database provides information about the places of primary burials of soldiers and officers who died in battle or died from wounds and illnesses in hospitals and medical battalions. Records of documents for filling the generalized data bank are taken from a large number of state archives, including from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The total number of documents to which access is provided on the site is almost 17 million digital copies. These documents contain information about more than 45 thousand passports of military graves, about 20 million personal records of the losses of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War, and indicate the primary burial places of more than 5 million Soviet soldiers and officers. The response to a database query, in many cases, may contain several documents from different sources, this will allow identification with greater accuracy. Many documents contain information about personalities, in particular, the names and addresses of relatives to whom the funerals were sent.

The portal also has access to data that has been classified for decades, namely about Soviet soldiers and officers who were captured by Germans. Documents are presented indicating the name and number of the prisoner of war camp, which were compiled after the release from captivity. In some cases, documents issued upon request make it possible to establish the place and circumstances of the soldier’s death.

It is possible to search according to data from military commissariats and military transit points, such as the name of the runway, date of arrival and departure, where you arrived from and place of departure, last place of service, team number and others. Thanks to such a tool, you can learn in more detail about the fate of your warrior ancestor and trace his military path. The site database is constantly updated with new information.

“Memory of the People” is the third project of the Ministry of Defense

https://pamyat-naroda.ru- Launched in May 2015, on the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. This is the largest portal on the Internet containing databases of digital copies of archival documents from the war years. A truly colossal amount of work has been done in creating this site. Without exaggeration, we can say that the site contains almost the entire history of the Great Patriotic War, embodied in documents about personalities and battles.

The portal is based on generalized data banks of the first two projects of the RF Ministry of Defense “Memorial” and “Feat of the People”, which were significantly expanded and new data were added to them. The site's database contains more than 425 thousand copies of documents from armies and fronts. In addition, the site contains copies of original documents on the conduct of 216 military operations.

It is possible to search by many types of input data - the soldier’s last name, first name and patronymic, award certificate number, burial place and others.

A special feature of the project is its visibility, when document data is linked to geographic maps and the chronological scale of military events. On interactive maps can be tracked fighting ways units of the Red Army at more than 6 million document reference points. Also, on modern maps More than 12 million places of feats of Soviet soldiers were marked, with detailed description and indicating awards. More than 100 thousand original war maps have been superimposed on modern ones geographical maps. Thanks to this, any user, even those new to history and geography, can clearly see the progress of the war on a global scale. And taking into account the georeferencing of personal data from archival documents to maps, he has the opportunity to trace in detail in space and time the combat path of his warrior ancestor from the place of conscription to the place of the last battle and final refuge or until returning home, for those who remained alive.

Combining all the data in one portal made it possible for people to search for the necessary information themselves and greatly facilitated access to archival documents of the war years. Everything that was previously consigned to oblivion for decades in archival corridors and for some reason classified folders has now become available for everyone to see. This portal is also regularly updated with new data from the archives.

Each of the projects mentioned above has its own focus and objectives. Therefore, when searching for information about relatives and friends who participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War, it is better to review all three projects to complete the data collection. Then individual fragments of invaluable archival information will form a complete picture of the military path of the ancestor-soldier.

Emotional entries in award lists, recorded in the first days, or even hours after the battle, are a living view of the commander and colleagues on the hero’s feat. The big picture circumstances of the feat are supplemented by records of combat logs and documents operational management. These lines are the most eloquent evidence of the fate of soldiers and officers, whose descendants are obliged to remember their feat. Descriptions of battles compiled not by armchair historians, but by direct participants in the events in meager lines of reports allow us to look at the war from a different angle than through the prism of interpretations in history textbooks.