Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland Military Memorial Department Information service "Memory of the people"
Information service "Memory of the people"
Portal "Memory of the People" created by the Ministry of Defense by decision of the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory" and supported by the order of the President of the Russian Federation and the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.
The main goal of the project is to provide users with the opportunity to obtain the most complete information about the participants in the Great Patriotic War through new interactive tools and the development of generalized data banks "Memorial" and "Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
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The project "Memory of the people" is:
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Development of information resources of the Ministry of Defense of Russia,
as a form of perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland
The Russian Ministry of Defense continues to work on the development and replenishment of the interactive service "Memory of the People", which combined the existing public data banks "Memorial" and "Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".
At present, the interactive service "Memory of the People" includes:
over 106.6 million digitized pages of archival operational documents of the fronts, armies and formations of the Red Army (including 127 thousand files of headquarters documents, of which more than 48,600 files of combat logs of fronts, armies and divisions, documents and schemes for managing military operations ;
58.0 million records out of 21.3 million digital copies of documents on the irretrievable losses of the Red Army, military transit points and reserve regiments;
more than 42,000 passports of military burials, including 11,994 passports in foreign countries, with lists of the buried, documents on the places of primary burials of more than 5.0 million soldiers and officers, more than 1.2 million records of trophy documents about Soviet prisoners of war;
more than 28.0 million records of award documents;
about 51,800 historical maps and schemes of combat operations of the headquarters of fronts, armies and divisions, 12.5 million records with information on maps about the accomplished feats of soldiers and officers;
29.52 million cards about injuries and deaths from wounds in hospitals and medical battalions;
description of 227 major battles of the Great Patriotic War.
The intellectual system allows using the archive documents available in the database to restore the combat path of associations, formations, military units and individual servicemen from the place of conscription to the place of death, the last place of service in the active army or return home. In July 2017, the interactive service was supplemented by the Internet portal "In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918". The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, through the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory", was tasked with digitizing original documents on the main battles, losses, awards and military burials of the Russian Imperial Army. The work will be completed by the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War in 2018.
The Internet portal "In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918" contains information about 2,278,000 participants in the war, including 115,144 killed and missing, 3,066 awards, obtained from the collection of the Highest Orders for the Military Department for 1914 , as well as 783 archival documents (historical materials with maps, photographs, documents of military units, newspapers and magazines of that time, as well as descriptions of seventy-six battles and hostilities).
The general concept of the development of the resource implies the coverage of the entire history of the conduct of military operations in Russia, from 1914 to the present.
This project has no analogues in the world. Even now it is an effective tool to protect against attempts to falsify history. But the most important thing is an unprecedented opportunity to restore and preserve historical memory and the connection between generations.
Currently, the Commission continues to work, which determines the possibility of making publicly available information posted in the closed autonomous segment of the portal. As the Commission works, the information will appear in the public domain.
Good day everyone!
Not so long ago, I tried to help an acquaintance find relatives who fought in the Second World War (1941-1945). Oddly enough, we quickly managed to find his grandfather, the number of his unit where he fought, and also looked at several of his awards. The acquaintance was pleased and proud of his grandfather, but I thought ...
I think that after all, almost every family has relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War, and many would like to know more about them (which is why I decided to sketch this article). Moreover, many old people do not like to talk about the front, and it is not uncommon for the family to not even know all the grandfather's awards!
By the way, many mistakenly believe (and I did until recently) that in order to find at least something, you need to know a lot of information about a person, know how to access archives (and where to go), have a lot of free time, etc. . But in fact, now, in order to try to start a search, it is enough to know the first and last name.
And so, below I will consider several interesting sites in more detail ...
Addition!
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No. 1: The feat of the people
A very, very interesting site created by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It is a large database in which all available documents from the military archives are entered: where and who fought, what awards he received, what feats, etc. Absolutely everything is entered, regardless of the ranks and scale of the feat. I can add that the base of the site has no analogues in size.
Then you will see a list of found people: note that there can be a lot of them if your relative has a common name and surname. Opposite each person will be displayed his year of birth, rank, order, medal (if any).
The card itself displays quite a lot of information per person: rank, place of conscription, place of service, date of the feat (if any), archival documents on the award, registration card, photo of the leaflet describing the feat, medals and orders (example below).
In general, quite informative and complete. I recommend starting your search for a person from this site. If you are lucky and you find data about him here, then you will get pretty decent information to continue your search (you will know the year of birth, the part where he served, where he was called from, etc. details that many people don’t already know about).
By the way, despite the fact that all the basic information has already been posted on the site, from time to time it is updated with new archival data. Therefore, if you did not find anything, try to go in after a while and search again, also use the sites that I will give below.
#2: OBD Memorial
The full name of the site is Generalized Data Bank.
The main purpose of this site is to enable citizens to find and learn about the fate of their relatives, find out the place of their burial, where they served, and other information.
The Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a unique work, as a result of which you can use the reference system of global importance!
The data used to populate the database of this site are taken from official archival documents located in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Central Naval Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Military Archive, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, etc.
During the work, more than 16.8 million documents, more than 45 thousand passports of military graves were scanned and posted online.
How to search for a person in OBD
Yes, it's pretty standard. On the main page of the site, enter all the information that you know into the search fields. It would be nice to enter at least the first name, last name, and patronymic. Then press the search button (example below).
In the data found, you will see the date and place of birth of a person, by which you can navigate and start viewing the necessary profiles.
The following information can be found in the questionnaire: full name, date and place of birth, date and place of conscription, military rank, reason for leaving, date of leaving, name of the source of information, fund number, source of information. And also see the scanned sheet itself with archived data.
No. 3: Memory of the people
Another site with a huge database created by the Department of Defense. The main goal of the project is to enable all users to obtain information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War through new web tools and the development of generalized data banks "Memorial" and "Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
To start searching for a person, just enter his full name (if any, then another year of birth). Then click the "Find" button.
Next, you will be shown all the people found with similar initials. By opening a card for a person, you will find out: his date of birth, place of conscription, military units, awards, dates of feats, numbers of funds - sources of information, archive, you can see scans for which awards were given.
In addition, on this site you can see what was the path along which your grandfather moved and fought (an example on the map below: the beginning of the journey near Novosibirsk, then Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny, etc.).
Note: the map is quite large, and the screenshot below shows a small piece of it.
Where grandfather was and fought - the path on the map!
#4: Immortal Regiment
This is the official website of the Immortal Regiment movement. Those who live in Russia probably know and have heard about him. In general, I mentioned this site for the simple reason that you can try to search on it (for this, just type in the required full name in the search term of the site).
Search by movement base (from the site "Immortal Regiment")
By the way, I also want to note that the site has already collected about half a million profiles and they are constantly being added. In addition, you can tell your story about grandfather (everything you know) and his profile will be entered into the site database (Suddenly someone will add your information?!).
Screenshot from the site "Immortal Regiment"
From the soldier's profile, you can find out quite detailed information about him: full name, rank, region, locality, history, etc. An example of a card is shown in the screenshot below.
How the soldier's profile will look like (screenshot from the site "Immortal Regiment")
If you are looking for a burial place for your relatives who participated in the Second World War, I recommend that you also read this article:.
In it, you will learn how to correctly create a request to the archive, how to issue it, and where exactly to send it. In general, very useful information.
Well, that's all for me, I hope it helped, if not found, then at least gave useful "food" to start searching ...
The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, which lasted 1418 days and nights, affected almost every Soviet family. According to official statistics, more than 26.6 million citizens of the USSR became victims of the conflict. The fate of many participants in the war is still unknown.
Now in the public domain you can find a lot of archival wartime documents: reports from combat units, documents from hospitals and medical battalions, funerals, as well as passports for burials of Soviet soldiers and officers.
How to learn more about those who went through the war, and those who did not return from it, in the TASS material.
What do you need to know?
- At least the last name and first name of the combatant. Some resources for a more accurate search require patronymic, year and place of birth, date of enlistment and rank. It is also recommended to check all possible spellings of the full name, since often the data could be distorted by the people who wrote them down.
Where to looking for?
- Generalized data bank "Memorial", created on the initiative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It contains about 17 million sheets of archival documents and more than 45 thousand passports of military graves. On the site you can find information about the rank of the deceased, the unit in which he served, the date and cause of death (killed, died of wounds, went missing), as well as the place of burial.
- The information resource "Memory of the People" offers three types of search: by personalities (section "Heroes of War"), by participation in a specific military operation, and by places of military burials. In most cases, the data is illustrated with interactive maps, which can be used to track the route of specific military units, as well as the location of the burial places of Soviet soldiers.
- Electronic bank of documents "Feat of the people". Contains detailed information about awards.
- Archives replenished by the participants of the all-Russian campaign "Immortal Regiment". They also contain information about home front workers.
- Database of the Documentation Center of the "Saxon Memorials" Association. It contains information about Soviet prisoners of war who were in camps or in labor battalions on the territory of the Reich.
What to do if the search through the Internet did not bring results?
- Check the same databases in six months: on average, they are updated exactly with this frequency.
- Independently draw up a written request to the archive, for example, to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsAMO) or the Central Naval Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsVMA). More information about the procedure and possible search directions can be found at
Search for WWII participants by last name. Memory of the People (Feat of the People) - website of the Ministry of Defense: search for soldiers by last name for free, database of participants in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, full archive.
Link to the official site. Instructions for finding a soldier by last name 1941-1945. Authentic documents about the Second World War.
Search on the site Memory of the people
Hello everyone, who does not know, I want to tell you about such a site " Memory of the people". This is not an advertisement, I just saw the news about the site on TV one day and decided to check it out. My grandfather Sergei Ilyich went to the front at the beginning of the war. Called from the village of Ulyanovka in Bashkortostan. I was also there when I found it on the site, my grandmother kept saying "I wonder if he's still alive and lost somewhere, or found another one after the war." She didn’t get a funeral, as far as I understood her grandfather was listed as missing.
She told touching stories. When the guys from the village went to war, they said "We will not return", that in the war they are now shooting from the sky. And I decided to find any information about him.
How to find a relative on the site Memory of the people?
I just typed in his initials and place of birth and immediately saw the following:
You can drive in the initials on the official website "Memory of the people: website of the Ministry of Defense search for a soldier 1941-1945." The site is available at the link: https://pamyat-naroda.ru/.
I didn’t believe it right away, but it’s impossible not to believe such detailed information. Apparently, he was captured after the first battles, at the very beginning of the war on September 9, 41. He died in February 42nd. Not only is this information already exhaustive in itself, I also found a German document.
My surprise knew no bounds. Stablak POW camp. (If there are people who know German please translate the lines in the right column, I will be very grateful).
In the lower right corner, the name and surname of my grandmother, Makarova Vera, the village of Ulyanovka, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Aurgazinsky district, are written with a PEN. All the details. I don't know why when I see this document I feel uneasy. The Germans are incredibly pedantic. I hope it helped someone, good luck to everyone, learn about the heroes of your families.
Attention! If the search did not give the proper result, we strongly recommend visiting the site Feat of the people. Portals "Feat of the People" and "Memory of the People" (described above) are friendly and have the same essence, but some users get confused between them. Meanwhile, we wish you successful searches for loved ones and congratulate you on the upcoming Great Victory Day! Hooray!
Many people whose relatives were participants in the Great Patriotic War still do not know about the fate of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers. To perpetuate the memory of all participants in the war and provide information about the place of their burial to relatives and friends, the Memorial website was launched in 2007.
This site was developed under the direction of the Ministry of Defense. Over the 10 years of the existence of the Memorial archive, there are about 17 million digital copies of documents on irretrievable losses, as well as about 20 million nominal records on the losses of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War. The primary burial sites of more than 5 million soldiers and officers have been made public.
If you need to find your relatives, then use the site www.obd-memorial.ru, which contains an archive of participants in the Great Patriotic War (WWII). Using the archive of the Ministry of Defense, you can search by the names of the participants in the Great Patriotic War.
By going to the Memorial website, you can start searching for a participant in the Great Patriotic War. To do this, on the main page of the site, use the "Set fate" tab. To start a search by last name, you need to enter the following information in the empty fields: last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, title. If you cannot complete one of the fields, then you can leave the field blank.
Set fates After filling in the fields and performing a search, the computer will give you the search results.
If nothing was found according to your request, then you can use the advanced search. During an advanced search, it is possible to set the following search parameters: full name, last name in Latin, date of birth, place of birth, date and place of conscription, last place of service, military rank, camp number, date of departure, country of burial, region of burial, place of burial, place of departure, hospital where he was reburied, place of captivity, date of death. It also provides the ability to specify lists in which to search first.
Advanced Search
If you still can't find anyone, don't despair. The archive of the Ministry of Defense of the participants of the Great Patriotic War is annually updated with new entries. Therefore, it is possible that in a year or two you will be able to establish the fate of your relative, who was a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
Archive of WWII participants
