Databases for searching information about the participants in the World War II on the Internet. Databases for searching information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War on the Internet Participants of the Great Patriotic War: search by name, archive and awards
With the help of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation an electronic bank "The feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" was created. which is located at podvignaroda.mil.ru, where you can find information about the exploits and awards of your fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers by name and surname. The search is based on military archival documents that have been digitized and entered into the site database.
How and where to look?
The site “The Feat of the People” is the most complete and up-to-date database on the participants of the Great Patriotic War- there is information about almost all the warriors. At the first stage of digitization from 2010 to 2015, 30 million entries were made for awarding orders and medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit", as well as information on 22 million Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees for the 40th anniversary of the Victory, and also 200 thousand archival files with a total volume of 100 million sheets!
Such a huge amount of work has been done for the main goal of the project:
The main goals of the project are to perpetuate the memory of all the heroes of the Victory, regardless of the rank, the scale of the feat, the status of the award, the military-patriotic education of young people on the example of the military exploits of their fathers, as well as creation of a factual basis to counter attempts to falsify the history of the War.
There are 3 main search options:
- Search for people and their awards
- Search for decrees and orders for awards
- Finding data by place and time
To find a person, use the first search option, to do this, open the site http://podvignaroda.mil.ru/ and go to the "People and Awards" tab and enter the last name and first name of the person whose awards you want to find.
To search for decrees and data on the place of hostilities, we recommend using another site - "Memory of the People", which will be discussed below.
If you want to search by the number of the award, then this will not work, because award numbers are not indicated in the award documents.
If information about the fate of a person is not known, then the site "Feat of the People" will not suit you, because. it does not contain data on the dead or missing. Such information should be searched on the website www.obd-memorial.ru, trying different spellings of surnames and first names. wartime documents could contain errors in full name or date of birth.
Recall that the initiator of this project is the Department of Development of Information and Telecommunication Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and technical support is provided by ELAR. Thank you for this site!
Information is taken from two funds: the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (CA MO) and the Central Naval Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsVMA).
Memory of the people
Later, a more modern site was opened https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ "Memory of the People" with documents from the Second World War, which has a more pleasant design and, most importantly, more information, maps and historical data.
With the help of the “Memory of the People” portal, it has become even easier to restore the military path of your grandfather, to find documents about injuries and awards.
The Memory of the People project was implemented in accordance with the decision of the Russian Organizing Committee Victory of July 2013, supported by the order of the President and the Decree of the Government of Russia in 2014. The project provides for the publication on the Internet of archival documents and documents on 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 on the Second World War OBD Memorial and the Feat of the People into one project - the Memory of the People.
On the page https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ops/ you can find plans for 226 operations with detailed diagrams on the map. Each page about the operation contains the names of the commanders and numbers of military units, as well as a description of the result of the operation.
Picture 1 - Modern map military operations during WWII.
On the page https://pamyat-naroda.ru/memorial/ you can find military graves in your city. Just enter the name of the city and click the "Find" button. In total, information is contained on 30,588 burials around the world, except for the United States.
Figure 2 - Military graves with names and surnames.
The burial page contains information about its condition (good, bad, excellent), type of burial, number of graves, number of known and unknown buried. Also on the page is a list of those buried with names and dates of birth and death.
Nikolai Vladimirovich Stefanovich was born on January 6, 1912 in the family of an employee, Vladimir Mitrofanovich Stefanovich (d. 1916). Mother, Olga Petrovna (d. 1947), was a teacher. The family also had three daughters. After leaving school, the poet studied at the Higher Literary Courses in Moscow, before they were closed and dispersed, he managed to complete 3 courses. He studied on the course together with the future director of the House-Museum F.I. Tyutchev in Muranov K.V. Pigarev. Already in his youth, Tyutchev's work had a great influence on him, Stefanovich devoted research to him, on the basis of love for him, he met the famous poet and literary critic G.I. Chulkov. After the courses were closed, Nikolai Vladimirovich entered the Shchukin Theater School, and after graduating, he worked at the Vakhtangov Theater for eight years before the war.
I cannot but mention the sad episode in the life of Stefanovich, which was widely disseminated by the literary critic Vitaly Shentalinsky, who published the book Denunciation of Socrates in 2001. In the chapter dedicated to the fate of M.A. Voloshin, the author, along with other things, devotes several pages to the court case of the Christian poetess Natalia Anufrieva and the mathematician Daniil Zhukovsky, who were arrested in Moscow in the summer of 1936. He also writes that the arrest of the latter occurred on the basis of a denunciation by Nikolai Stefanovich. Without whitewashing Stefanovich, I still want to say that not everything is completely clear with the details of this case. Most likely, it was not a denunciation, but a confession knocked out of the poet during the investigation. The poet was close friends with Anufrieva and Zhukovsky for several years, it was a circle of young truth seekers and Christian-minded intellectuals. And they met, most likely, through Chulkov, since Zhukovsky was married to his sister last Anna. I think that someone else wrote the denunciation. Another person appeared in the case, a classmate of Daniil Zhukovsky in the Mathematics Department of Moscow State University, who was relieved of any responsibility and did not appear in the case anymore. Stefanovich was apparently blackmailed by his family into appearing as a witness at the trial of Zhukovsky and Anufriyeva in April 1937. From the transferred pressure, he fell seriously ill, and later experienced deep mental anguish from the fact that he could not show the proper measure of stamina. Here I can only recall the gospel truth as old as the world - "Judge not, lest you be judged." It is not at all the business of poets to defend their convictions, proving their case in the office of NKVD investigators. Their job is to write good poetry.
In 1941, a bomb hit the theater where Stefanovich was on duty. The poet was seriously wounded and became disabled for life, having received the 1st group of disability.
In the same year, he, along with the theater, left for evacuation to Perm. After returning to Moscow, for some time he continued to work in the theater. Soon he met B.N. Slutsky, who really liked the poems and translations of Stefanovich. Slutsky recommended him for admission to the section of translators at the State Publishing House, and until the end of his days, Nikolai Vladimirovich was professionally engaged in translations: primarily of Eastern poets, in particular Rabindranath Tagore, as well as translations from East Slavic languages. Stefanovich himself knew the languages of the peoples of Yugoslavia quite well, since his father was a Serb. His translations were actively published, many of them were published on the pages of the journal "Foreign Literature".
The poet died on April 14, 1979, and was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow. Stefanovich's original work was practically not published during his lifetime. With the mediation of Slutsky, 3 small publications were published in the anthology "Day of Poetry". This was connected, of course, with their religious content. Only in the perestroika years did publications appear on the pages of Ogonyok, Rural Youth, Novy Mir, Smena, and other publications. Some of these publications were directly related to the author of this preface.
Nikolai Vladimirovich STEFANOVICH: poetry
Poet: | | .
IN MEMORY OF THE FATHER
You left me like a legacy
Expected to repeat forever?
The world shone, moved apart and raised,
Giving place to your inventions,
***
How unmistakable and accurate
When they bomb for a week,
Pressing against the drainpipe,
Suddenly you know God!
Houses are slanting from horror,
Chills and fainting itching,
And slippery fingers...
- Russia!
Do you hear the angels sing?
***
Lost teases you
And you are sad, dumbfounded,
When they sing for this holiday
All the same festive tune.
Then you grew up, now you grew up
Now you're exhausted and yet
Every time you enter the kliros,
You are walking towards the past.
Your interrupted childhood
Stop at the Royal Doors -
After all, there is no other way in the world,
To bring him back.
***
Oh Russia, like Job in the Bible,
You are naked to the bone,
And the bottomless abyss of death
In every puddle yours shines.
Both people and angels have changed,
They desecrate and hit in the face ...
So, according to the gospel,
The prodigal son returned to his father.
***
O separation of Alpha and Omega!
In vain and unrestrained again
All night in the steppe a forgotten cart
Shafts will stretch to the stars.
And the bewitched stars listen,
What are the frogs called in a singsong voice,
And at that hour they will fall to the ground,
I could not endure the separation of the evil.
All times will merge, won't they?
Behold the trumpet voice, resounding in the midst,
Will connect the worlds, spaces, distances
And what was, with what is ahead.
Hey, Lord, come! We're so tired
We are waiting for you. - Hey, Lord, come!
***
Sunset field. How gentle and quiet it is here!
Grasshoppers tick dreamily in the grass.
And if we multiply grass for eternity,
They will be designated by the name of God;
The earth receded and only remained
And I pray to God, a simple man:
"Oh, if only it could stay that way forever!"
But this moment is fading away
And the whole sky is covered with the pain of separation.
***
Everyone who has suffered, got sick,
All losing to the end -
Knows that this death
The Father was not in the house.
All those squandered clean
Gloomy covered in darkness,
Help out children's quality -
Thirst to return home.
***
Not everyone can take this moment.
And I got to experience it:
It is full of longing, scorching thirst
And eternity, solemn to tears, -
That eternity that one day
Christ compared with a grain of mustard.
***
From these walls. from gossip and insults
Somewhere to hide even in a dream.
After all, the whole day without restraint is sick
Swollen, cold palate.
The shabby garden was overgrown with unconsciousness.
Chills and itching. At the wet shed
The rough noise of shabby birches,
Leaky yard and oblique street.
And this is the land that Christ
I wanted to save, resurrecting from the dead.
***
I am seized with unbearable horror,
Shapeless and black as a failure
Just because your baptismal cross
I accidentally lost today.
After all, there is no God and the devils are invented,
And the angels are not visible in the sky,
And the cross is gone. And so, with death
I was left completely alone.
***
It seemed to distort the soul,
And the load is terrible, and there is no way,
But the cross flashed over the old church,
Almost invisible in the dark.
And above the church fence
Big clouds are flying
And inspiring suddenly and rejoicing,
And the heavy burden is light...
MORNING
Now there is not a single board in the fences
You will not call it still a board
And you will not take away the baptized hand -
So the morning streets are easy
And the sky is Orthodox.
Know God, clear through and through,
While portfolios, theses and books,
Until things close
His face revealed too much.
***
Now I'm weak and old
But as in childhood - by the balcony
A thoughtful mosquito hung
On the thread of your own ringing.
And also everything to the smallest detail,
To every crack on the saucer...
When I hear: "Boy! Hey!" -
I can't help but look back.
***
The board will swing - we fly
Towards the sky, roofs, pines...
The bike was tricycle
And the garden is huge and dense.
I came, distorting the soul,
To the last edge, to the border,
But I enter early childhood,
How to enter the festive church.
***
Lord! The beginning of all beginnings!
Was it a moment
Whenever I bothered you
Am I endlessly sad?
Only once was the evening - full of strength,
So transparent and good
And I thanked you
Laughing and clapping...
To remove heavy guilt
My sins, deceptions, nonsense -
I'll start right there
When I come to judgment for the last time.
***
The leaves will rustle and recoil,
The trees are closing in tight...
Where does this temperament come from?
At the stars, mignonettes, poplars?
Mysterious herbs and leaves.
Everything froze, the rustle subsided,
And I feel - here is the Eucharist,
And I hear: Yours from Yours...
***
June night insinuating bliss,
Once upon a time in childhood heard a melody.
In the foggy steppe the cart prays,
Shafted up to the starry sky.
And about the one who seemed to be gone -
I understood here in the mowed meadow,
That each one so He moves the planet,
Like I can't even move an eyebrow.
Everything is magical: bushes, straw, stone
And the blood pounding in my temple
And "Our Father" sung by crickets
In a language incomprehensible to people.
Frosty, windy and bare,
In all worlds, in any region
Holy memory, Nikola,
Today they celebrate yours.
And in this hour of praise and glory,
By the light of a melting candle,
How to become not dark, not crafty,
How not to die - teach.
PRODIGAL SON
And he told them the following parable...
Luke 15:3
1
In the blue and dense garden
How you want to live without end
When through shaggy boughs
Father's smile breaks through.
And now the air is healing,
And the paths are bright,
And your constant prayer
Grasshoppers sing in the grass.
A boy tarry thickets
With a run, he inhales sobbing,
And the light that comes from the father,
In the soul, as in a lamp, it burns.
And, clenching my heart with my hands,
He is ready to cry from happiness...
After all, this is both now and forever,
After all, this is forever and ever.
2
Father unrestrained and generous
And all day and all night
All myself to water and wind,
Gives flowers and herbs.
And those butterflies and bees
And these branches are the substance -
Only the embodiment of cheerful thoughts
And his various inventions.
But at once containing everything,
He himself does not know the orbits,
And only his shadow is big
Sometimes it glides through the green.
3
Children's clothes are tight and not in height,
And the boy rushes about, awkward and gloomy.
He thinks confusedly
and feels not only
Everything is random and random.
He loved the swing
but poor and fearless
Tethered flight
which is useless...
Now with some snail's step
All this seems to him.
4
Said to his father:
- I am sent down to myself.
Your bright house is still loving,
I'll leave anyway.
To become an adult now
I will separate myself from you today.
Maybe I'm awkward and naive
But I will find my own
limit…-
And he left. And a terrible gushed
shower,
And I didn't want to let go until morning.
5
In space cut and flat
Everything changed and flowed.
He stood in front of the kiosk
He touched the cloudy glass.
Then chaos broke in again -
Shaggy, tangled, thick…
And it was all accompanied
Some weird nausea.
6
Perhaps he is in battle, in a duel?
And I suddenly remembered clearly again,
Like a wheel on a sunny path
He tried to overtake his own shadow.
No, don't look, don't see, don't touch,
Close everything with a curtain of rain ...
After all, it's stupid to bite your elbow
Or bang your head against a wall.
7
The yard languishes, to dirty logs
Lowering the night sky.
Like a cloying sinful smell,
Like a stuffy wicked wind ...
And bedroom windows appear
And someone's feminine balcony
Where even the air is catarrhal
Where even the dusk is inflamed.
In the soul - as in the abyss, as in the well,
But he runs, swallowing the darkness,
And every house laughs at him
And they applaud him.
8
In the soul, the alarm is buzzing without respite ...
Who invented that the will is not strong?
Here is a boy crossing the street
But the old man and the old man's cough.
How mysterious and subtle everything is now:
Another invisible push -
And the truck will run over the child
And, like a candle, the old man will go out.
His fire, swift and stale,
Eternal death is melting in itself,
Slides like a knife at the vital aorta
Any destiny, any being.
And if he does not overcome temptation,
And if sin overcomes the soul,
That would be devilishly dangerous
For the old man, for the boy, for everyone.
9
Does the gray-haired old man die,
Or someone else will die, -
For nature, arithmetic is important:
She is neither cold nor hot.
And when from a fragrant dress
Grace will breathe golden, -
Someone will pay for this with their life
Someone suddenly stops breathing.
10
He's a madman and a neurasthenic...
Dawn again, losing shame
Empty streets will undress
The breaks of the stairs will expose.
And through the early morning collodion
He feels now
That someone again does not reduce him
Your glazed eyes.
11
Now go and don't look back...
How all houses and windows are symmetrical!
Just think: people are sleeping,
- Everything is as usual.
And then the damp dawn took him by surprise,
And it’s scary to look into the entrances and gates ...
Perhaps the truth at this moment
Did someone suddenly die?
12
Loneliness. Splashes and slush.
The rain stopped and poured again.
As if the sky tried not to cry
But she couldn't contain herself.
Like someone's big grievances
Became wind, fog, rain ...
Or is it a forgotten father
Does he remember his son?
13
The trumpet sings like a funeral march.
And dawn again...
He got a lot older that night
For hundreds of years.
Let the soul, in abscesses and growths,
Almost dead...
Everything is so easy, so infinitely simple.
Everything is tryn-grass.
14
Plants have become dry
And hardened like metal
When the father's holy name
He defiled and trampled.
The stars faded. Everything in the world
Suddenly seized with mortal fear,
And it was heard in the houses
Frightened children scream.
15
Medicines don't save people
A terrible disease rages
And the black kingdom of hunger,
Like the sea, raging around.
Corpses are scattered everywhere.
He's ashamed and scared...
Knock on the window to anyone,
Just not to be alone?
16
Sometimes the look is almost random
Almost means nothing.
Isn't it the owner
Did you look at it for the first time?
Above the dark brick outbuilding
Blue sky streak...
He looked at him a second time
And they were very symmetrical
His transparent eyes.
17
And he said: - You are a brave fellow,
You spit on duty and shame.
Feed my pigs, perhaps ...
After all, your father act naughty
You will never be forgiven.
And he grazes in the damp lowlands
Pigs of his lord, -
He became completely see-through and blue,
And triumphant pigs
They look at him with a smile.
18
How the blade cuts
In the temples and in the chest,
And tears and gnashing
Still ahead.
And somewhere in excess
Cooking for him
brutal torture
And eternal darkness.
Nobody is pissed off
Stronger than father...
To torment and screams
There will be no end.
But thunders and executions
He is not afraid:
They are safer
Other silence.
And great horror
Ready to hide
And in groans, and in cries,
And in gnashing of teeth.
Into the impenetrable darkness
And more - where?
Death is fine.
And that's it. And the coven.
19
Looking for shorter roads
Wandering with a bitten lip
And he repeats: - how, father,
Will I appear before you?
He is ready for a harsh retribution,
But suddenly, through the morning expanse,
Father chaotic embrace
Spread out towards him.
20
No reproaches, no anger, no rage.
Clouds embrace him
And father through the hot thickets
Gives his jubilation.
The shell is simple and rough
Doesn't interfere with anything
And the trees rustle like banners,
Rushing towards him.
And it sparkles all the hotter, more solemnly
Opened eternity blue ...
This is life's second coming
It's a holiday holiday. Amen.
*
Almost bordering on fantasy
Contrary to plausibility, -
Such a parable lives for centuries,
Creation older than Luke.
Or maybe this is not heresy,
That light, invisible just like that,
We only understand through
Blasphemy, unconsciousness and darkness?
Let the universe freeze
And turn into steam through, -
To save everything, about the prodigal son
One chapter is enough.
About Man: Evgeny Yevtushenko about Nikolai Stefanovich
Nikolai Vladimirovich STEFANOVICH (1912-1979)- poet: | | .
From the anthology of Evgeny Yevtushenko "Ten centuries of Russian poetry"
Once, in the early sixties, I found at Boris Slutsky a lean, reserved man about the age of my father. The stranger looked at me with curious curiosity, but did not even try to be friendly. It felt like he wasn't up to it. On his face lay a clear shadow of some kind of internal pain. He was already leaving and introduced himself, pronouncing the name Stefanovich with an emphasis on "e", which was somewhat unusual.
Is he rehabilitated? I asked Slutsky.
No, - answered Boris, - he never sat. But back in 1937, as a witness, he testified at the trial against two of his friends and still cannot forgive himself. And people are too cruel: they don’t want to remember how these testimonies were knocked out. Not necessarily torture. After all, everyone has a family hostage. And his mother was alive and sisters ...
And what does he do?
In fact, he is an actor, he graduated from the Shchukin school, before the war he served in the Vakhtangov Theater. In 1941, during a raid, he was on duty on the roof of the theater and was wounded. He became an invalid of the first group. True, they left him in the theater, but only small roles were given. He works part-time, like Dezik Samoilov and I, with translations in Goslit. According to his father, he is a Serb and knows the language, he does without interlinear. He also writes his own poems, but he has never published them yet. When I read it, I was amazed. Such poets do not roll on the road. In any case, he is the author of one brilliant quatrain. Even if he did not write anything else, this would be enough to stay in poetry forever.
And Boris Abramovich read four lines, which I have often repeated since then. I hope my children and their children's children will repeat them. Here is this great quatrain, sounding more and more modern and sharper, when the fate of the entire globe depends on what happens even in the smallest countries:
Connects all a single lot:
Just twist your leg
And at the same moment in Addis Ababa
Someone screams in pain.
In the book Denunciation of Socrates (2001), Vitaly Shentalinsky, whom I deeply respect for his research into Stalin's atrocities, provides indisputable evidence of Stefanovich's collaboration with the NKVD, citing his detailed denunciation of the poets Natalya Anufrieva and Daniil Zhukovsky. But I cannot believe that the man who wrote so many kind and strong poems was a scammer of his own free will. Surely he was the victim of a merciless meat grinder, a cunning inquisitorial blackmail. I do not justify him, but I do not want to throw another stone at him: in my opinion, he punished himself most severely with the pangs of conscience. Perhaps, in his thoughts about everything that happened, he wrote his poetic confession dedicated to the “Memory of the Father”:
You left me like a legacy
Your hair is a cut strand.
But what about us toy childhood
Expected to repeat forever?
The world shone, moved apart and raised,
Giving place to your inventions,
And because I'm disgusting today,
Not only for me, but for both of us.
And because there is no limit to shame,
And because that's how it happened -
Suddenly turned gray in the locket
The brown strand of your hair.
As a deeply religious person, Nikolai Stefanovich lived with a sense of the impending Apocalypse. And the war unleashed by the Nazis was for him a harbinger of the Last Judgment:
Isn't that why it's so creepy
Isn't that why the tanks went mad
That the hour has come when the archangel
The graves can be opened.
Will we understand in fire and in smoke
Of today's war -
What other battles
Are we surrounded at this moment?
He became a tragic participant not only in this World War II, but also in that eternal endless war of good and evil, whose battlefield is every human soul.
In Stefanovich's poems, one can see a man who is entangled in the snares of lies and fear - a man forced to betray his friends, but in essence kind and gentle, not born a traitor, but broken by the shameless rapists of his own people. And was he alone in the sin imposed on him! But at least he repented, and far from everyone had the conscience for this ...
See how much sensitivity, gratitude and sorrow in the soul of this sufferer crippled by both wars:
Again the stars will tangle in the bushes,
Shaking leaves and dew from the branches.
Oh, whatever You, Lord, create now -
I am not going to amend anything.
You lit up the neighborhood in a new way,
You are all permeated through and through ...
And only the dead still rise
And that night it failed again.
And what crystal laconism in longing for the ideal:
It's time for the last sleep
Pitch darkness closes over me,
And turn into a cloud through
Houses, and days, and branches under the window, -
And I'm scared that the most earthly
I will lose - longing for the unearthly ...
Departing from life in purity of repentance, Nikolai Stefanovich could hope for our understanding and sympathy, for that same mercy, which, as you know, is higher than justice.
It so happened that one day the demon beguiled Slutsky as well. The inertial fear from Stalin's time, and even backed up by party affiliation, pushed him to the only shameful act in his life: to general meeting Moscow writers, he joined the rabid reproaches of Boris Pasternak. But, like Stefanovich, Slutsky subsequently openly admitted his tragic guilt:
Angelic, not automotive
I'm hit by a wing.
He subjected himself to seclusion, sentenced him to not writing poetry. Not everyone does this.
Both poets did not try to justify their guilt. They recognized it and redeemed it with self-punishment. Let's forgive them.
LET'S FORGIVE
When my mother came from the Lubyanka archive,
she was silent and did not quarrel with the past.
She buried her face in a pillow for a week.
And so she lay. The eyes did not look at the people.
And then she said:
“Don't go there.
There, all the signatures are not for black and fat.
Forgive my grandfather.
It's not even fear - it's pain signed.
Let's forgive those who survived interrogation nights,
when they pulled out their nails with pliers.
Let's forgive
having repented not in an ostentatious way, - in the most Christian style.
Let's forgive
all those who have not forgiven themselves,
thinking about his own conscience, not prestige.
Let's forgive
May souls not become like scorched deserts.
Let's forgive
all those who have not forgiven themselves.
Let's forgive them with simple, simple words,
but not in order to, again betraying, asking for forgiveness,
and not hinting that they will also forgive us in the future
for the fact that we raised new traitors with gentleness to cowards.
This will be what I want, Russia ...
Evgeniy YEVTUSHENKO
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Electronic memory book "Immortal Regiment - Moscow"
The Immortal Regiment - Moscow, together with the My Documents Public Services Centers, collect information about the 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 Russian Internet portal for establishing the fate of the dead and missing servicemen and searching for their loved ones.
"Winners" - Soldiers of the Great War
With our project, we want to thank the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War living next to us by name and tell about their feat. The project "Winners" 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 Great Patriotic War.
Electronic memorial "Remember Pro"
On the “RememberPro” social site, each registered user can create a memory page, a photo gallery of a deceased close and dear person, 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 of the Great War, where everyone can leave their comments on any entry, supplement information about the War Participant with photos 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
Verifying the person's data, open the "advanced search" tab and try 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 parameters of the surname, and the name and patronymic only with initials.
2. Send a request to the archive 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".
In an envelope, enclose letters in which you clearly state the information you have and state the purpose of the request. Enclose one blank envelope, filling in your home address as the recipient's address.
3. Check the data on the site "Feat of the People"
If you do not have information on awards, you can refer to the website "Feat of the People". In the "People and awards" tab, enter the data as requested.
4. Check the information on the parameters
There are additional ways that can also help you find and identify information about your veteran. The site "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, in which there are expositions about the combat routes of units and formations of the Soviet Army
- How to establish the fate of a soldier who died or went missing during the Great Patriotic War
- Information on materials held by the tracing service of the International Red Cross
- Request forms for search, evacuation and search of graves through the Center for Tracing and Information of the Russian Red Cross (
We have been keeping the memory of the Great War of the 20th century and its heroes for more than 70 years. We pass it on to our children and grandchildren, trying not to lose a single fact, surname. Almost every family was affected by this event, many fathers, brothers, husbands never returned. Today we can find information about them thanks to the hard work of employees of military archives, volunteers who devote their free time to searching for soldiers' graves. How to do this, how to find a WWII participant by last name, information about his awards, military ranks, place of death? We couldn't get around this important topic attention, we hope that we can help those who seek and want to find.
Losses in the Great Patriotic War
It is not known exactly how many people left us during this great human tragedy. After all, the counting did not begin immediately, only in 1980, with the advent of glasnost in the USSR, historians and politicians, archive workers were able to start official work. Until that time, there were scattered data that were profitable at that time.
- After the celebration of Victory Day in 1945, JV Stalin declared that we had buried 7 million Soviet citizens. He spoke, in his opinion, about everyone, and about those who lay down during the battle, and about those who were taken prisoner by the German invaders. But he missed a lot, did not say about the rear staff, who stood from morning till night at the bench, falling dead from exhaustion. I forgot about the condemned saboteurs, traitors to the motherland, ordinary people who died in small villages and the blockade of Leningrad; the missing. Unfortunately, they can be listed for a long time.
- Later L.I. Brezhnev provided other information, he reported 20 million dead.
Today, thanks to the deciphering of secret documents, search work, the figures are becoming real. Thus, you can see the following picture:
- Combat losses received directly at the front during the battles are about 8,860,400 people.
- Non-combat losses (from diseases, wounds, accidents) - 6,885,100 people.
However, these figures do not yet correspond to the full reality. War, and even such, is not only the destruction of the enemy at the cost of one's own life. These are broken families - unborn children. These are huge losses of the male population, thanks to which the balance necessary for good demographics will not be restored soon.
These are diseases, famine in the post-war years and death from it. This is the rebuilding of the country again, again in many ways, at the cost of people's lives. All of them also need to be taken into account when doing calculations. All of them are victims of a terrible human vanity, the name of which is war.
How to find a participant in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945 by last name?
There is no better memory for the stars of victory than the desire of future generations to know. The desire to keep information for others to avoid such repetition. How to find a WWII participant by last name, where to find possible data about grandfathers and great-grandfathers, fathers - participants in the battles, knowing their last name? Especially for this, there are now electronic storages, access to which everyone has.
- obd-memorial.ru - this contains official data containing reports of losses, funerals, trophy cards, as well as information about the rank, status (died, was killed or disappeared, where), scanned documents.
- moypolk.ru is a unique resource containing information about home front workers. The very ones without which we would not have heard important word"Victory". Thanks to this site, many have already been able to find or help find the lost.
The work of these resources is not only to search for great people, but also to collect information about them. If you have any, please let the administrators of these sites know about it. Thus, we will do a great common thing - we will preserve the memory and history.
Archive of the Ministry of Defense: search by the names of the participants in the Great Patriotic War
Another one - the main, central, largest project - https://archive.mil.ru/. The documents preserved there are mostly single and remained intact due to the fact that they were taken to the Orenburg region.
Over the years of work, the Central Asian staff has created an excellent reference apparatus showing the content of archival accumulations and funds. Now its goal is to provide people with access to possible documents by means of electronic computers. Thus, a website has been launched where you can try to find a military man who participated in the Second World War, knowing his last name. How to do it?
- On the left side of the screen, find the "memory of the people" tab.
- Enter his full name.
- The program will give you the available information: date of birth, awards, scanned documents. Everything that is in the file cabinets for this person.
- You can set the filter on the right by selecting only the sources you need. But it's better to choose all.
- On this site, it is possible to see on the map the military operations, and the path of the unit in which the hero served.
This is a unique project in its essence. There is no longer such a volume of data collected and digitized from all existing and accessible sources: file cabinets, electronic memory books, documents of medical battalions and directories of command personnel. In truth, as long as such programs exist and the people who provide them, the memory of the people will be eternal.
If you didn't find it there right person, do not despair, there are other sources, maybe they are not so large-scale, but their information content does not become less from this. Who knows in which folder the information you need could be lying around.
Participants of the Great Patriotic War: search by name, archive and awards
Where else can you look? There are more specific repositories, for example:
- dokst.ru. As we said, the victims of this terrible war were those who were captured. Their fate can be displayed on foreign sites like this one. Here in the database there is everything about Russian prisoners of war and the burial places of Soviet citizens. You only need to know the last name, you can see the lists of captured people. The documentation research center is located in the city of Dresden, it was he who organized this site to help people from all over the world. You can not only search the site, but send a request through it.
- Rosarkhiv archives.ru is an agency that is an executive body that keeps records of all state documents. Here you can apply with a request either via the Internet or by phone. A sample of an electronic appeal is available on the website in the "appeals" section, left column on the page. Some services here are provided for a fee, a list of them can be found in the section "archive activities". With this in mind, be sure to ask if you will need to pay for your request.
- rgavmf.ru - military reference navy about the fates and great deeds of our sailors. In the "orders and applications" section there is an e-mail address for processing documents left for storage after 1941. By contacting the archive staff, you can get any information and find out the cost of such a service, most likely it is free.
WWII awards: search by last name
To search for awards, feats, an open portal dedicated to this www.podvignaroda.ru has been organized. Information is published here about 6 million cases of awarding, as well as 500,000 undelivered medals, orders that did not reach the recipient. Knowing the name of your hero, you can find a lot of new things about his fate. The posted scanned documents of orders and award sheets, data from accounting files, will complement your knowledge.
Who else can I contact for information about awards?
- On the website of the Central Asian Ministry of Defense in the section "Awards are looking for their heroes" a list of awarded fighters who did not receive them was published. Additional names can be obtained by phone.
- rkka.ru/ihandbook.htm - Encyclopedia of the Red Army. It contains some lists on the assignment of higher officer ranks, special titles. The information may not be as extensive, but the existing sources should not be neglected.
- https://www.warheroes.ru/ - a project created to popularize the exploits of the defenders of the Fatherland.
A lot of useful information, which is sometimes not available anywhere else, can be found on the forums of the above sites. Here people share precious experiences and tell their own stories that can help you too. There are many enthusiasts who are ready to help everyone in one way or another. They create their own archives, conduct their own research, they can also only be found on the forums. Do not bypass this type of search.
WWII veterans: search by last name
- oldgazette.ru - an interesting project created by ideological people. A person who wants to find information enters data, they can be anything: full name, name of the awards and date of receipt, a line from the document, a description of the event. This combination of words will be calculated by search engines, but not just on websites, but in old newspapers. Based on the results, you will see everything that was found. Suddenly, it is here that you are lucky, you will find at least a thread.
- Sometimes we seek among the dead and find among the living. After all, many returned home, but due to the circumstances of that difficult time, they changed their place of residence. To search for them, use the site pobediteli.ru. Here, people who seek send letters asking for help in finding their fellow soldiers, random war counters. The capabilities of the project allow you to select a person by name and region, even if he lives abroad. Seeing it in these lists or similar, you need to contact the administration and discuss this issue. Kind, attentive employees will definitely help and do everything they can. The project does not interact with government organizations and cannot provide personal information: phone number, address. But publishing your appeal about the search is quite possible. Already more than 1000 people have been able to find each other in this way.
- 1941-1945.at Veterans do not abandon their own. Here on the forum you can chat, make inquiries among the veterans themselves, perhaps they have met and have information about the person you need.
The search for the living is no less relevant than the search for dead heroes. Who else will tell us the truth about those events, about what we experienced and suffered. About how they met victory, that one - the very first, most expensive, sad and happy at the same time.
Additional sources
Regional archives were created throughout the country. Not so large, holding, often on the shoulders of ordinary people, they have preserved unique single records. Their addresses are on the website of the movement to perpetuate the memory of the dead. As well as:
- https://www.1942.ru/ - "Seeker".
- https://iremember.ru/ - memories, letters, archives.
- https://www.biograph-soldat.ru/ - international biographical center.
S. Golomyskino, Novonikolaevskaya province - March 31, Novosibirsk region) - assistant platoon commander of the 7th rifle company of the 227th rifle regiment 175th Ural-Kovel rifle division 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, senior sergeant - at the time of presentation to the Order of Glory, 1st degree.
Biography
Born on December 15, 1924 in the village of Golomyskino (now the Toguchinsky District of the Novosibirsk Region). After graduating from school, he worked on a collective farm.
In August 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. Since March of the same year at the front. From the first day until the Victory, he fought as part of the 227th Infantry Regiment of the 175th Infantry Division. The combat biography of the Red Army soldier Starodubtsev began on the Kursk Bulge.
The scout Starodubtsev earned his first award - the medal "For Courage" in the battles in the Right-Bank Ukraine in January 1944. Six months later, in the battles near Kovel, he received a second medal "For Courage". By this time, he had already been behind enemy lines more than once, participated in many reconnaissance searches, and was wounded twice. He especially distinguished himself in the battles for the liberation of Poland.
On September 13, 1944, Private Starodubtsev acted as part of a group of scouts in the Warsaw suburb of Prague. The fighters, having penetrated deep into the city at night, secretly surrounded a large stone house, turned by the Nazis into a stronghold. They threw grenades through the windows and after a short fight captured it. In this battle, the scouts destroyed up to a platoon of enemy infantry, seven opponents were taken prisoner. By their actions, they ensured the advancement of the remaining divisions of the division deep into the city. By order of the commander of the 175th Infantry Division dated October 5, 1944, for courage and courage shown in battle, Private Starodubtsev Nikolai Filippovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree.
As a result of four days of fighting, Soviet troops captured Prague. Created profitable terms to force the Vistula and assist the rebellious Varsovians. The reconnaissance group of the 175th Infantry Division was given the task of penetrating behind enemy lines, reconnoitering its defense system and capturing the “language”. On October 10, 1944, the scouts crossed to the western bank of the Vistula and penetrated deep into the enemy defenses. Having captured the prisoner, they began to return back and went straight to the enemy patrol. In the battle, Starodubtsev destroyed an enemy sentry and a machine gun crew. When an officer, the commander of a reconnaissance group, was wounded, Starodubtsev carried him to the eastern shore. Then he returned to the group and covered the retreat. Being wounded, he was the last to leave the shore occupied by the enemy. By order of the troops of the 47th Army of November 1, 1944, for the rescue of the commander and the successful completion of the assignment of command, Private Starodubtsev Nikolai Filippovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree.
In mid-January 1945, Soviet troops went on the offensive. The Vistula-Oder operation began. On the night of January 16, scouts led by Sergeant Starodubtsev crossed the Vistula on the ice, broke into an enemy trench, destroyed four heavy machine guns with crews and about two platoons of enemy infantry with grenades. Taking four prisoners and capturing valuable documents, the scouts delivered them to the regiment commander. Then they again rushed forward, deep into the enemy defenses. The main forces of the regiment entered the bridgehead captured by scouts. From this bridgehead, the division launched an offensive against Warsaw.
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated May 31, 1945, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Filippovich Starodubtsev was awarded the Order of Glory 1st degree for the courage and courage shown in the battles for Warsaw. Became full cavalier Order of Glory.
In 1945, N. F. Starodubtsev was demobilized. He returned to his homeland. Lived in the village of Zavyalovo, Toguchinsky District, Novosibirsk Region. First he worked as a foreman on a collective farm, then as a foreman on a state farm. But old wounds soon opened up and I had to retire. He died March 31, 1964.
Awarded with orders of Glory 3 degrees, medals.
