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 could not ignore such an important topic, we hope that we can help those who are looking for 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 the 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 did not find the right person there, do not despair, there are other sources, maybe they are not so large-scale, but their information content does not become less. 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 - a reference book of the navy about the fate 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. And:
- https://www.1942.ru/ - "Seeker".
- https://iremember.ru/ - memories, letters, archives.
- https://www.biograph-soldat.ru/ - international biographical center.
The Internet project of the Ministry of Defense of Russia "Feat of the People" is designed to make it easier for those who wish to study the history of those years. After all, this project contains tens of thousands of documents about awards for feats accomplished by ordinary Soviet people during the Second World War and the war with Japan. In this article, I will describe how to search by surnames in the Feat of the People, talk about the functionality of the website of the Ministry of Defense, and also explain how to use it.
"Feat of the people" - an unprecedented project of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, dedicated to the awards of the soldiers of the Red Army in the Second World WarThe Great Patriotic War left an indelible mark on the history of our people. Millions of dead, thousands of destroyed cities and villages, tens of thousands of destroyed enterprises, collective farms and state farms - the price for the Victory turned out to be simply huge. The past years are gradually erasing the details of those years from the memory of generations, the outlines of what happened are looking more and more vague, fewer direct participants in the victory over Nazism remain alive.
The significance of the search for participants in the Great Patriotic War in the "Feat of the People"
The Internet resource "Feat of the People" is a generalized data bank on the awards received by Soviet soldiers and commanders during the Great Patriotic War (as well as the Manchurian operation, which ended with the surrender of Japan). This data warehouse includes the corresponding scanned documents from the Russian archives of the CA MO and TsVMA (several tens of millions of documents), including numerous records of awarding medals and orders "For Military Merit", "For Courage" "Patriotic War" (I and II degrees), for the defense and liberation of various territories, and so on.
First of all, the website of the Ministry of Defense is aimed at searching for information about awards and the conditions for receiving them, allowing you to get detailed data on the type of award, the date and circumstances of the feat, the place of service of a serviceman, and more.
The site began work in the spring of 2010, and to this day continues to be filled with relevant documents (the last major addition of documents took place in 2015). In total, more than 30 million documents are planned to be added to the database.
Technical support for the project was provided by the ELAR Corporation. The resource that previously existed in Flash has now been rewritten in HTML5.
Feat of the People search by surnames, awards and those who returned from the war
To work with this service, go to the site podvignaroda.ru. There are five main tabs at the very top of the site:
For example, if you want to search by the name of your relative, go to the "People and awards" tab, and in the corresponding window that opens, enter the name (at least the last name) of your relative, and click on the "Search" button.
Use the "PEOPLE AND AWARDS" tab to find the people you need You will be shown a list of found people whose full name matches the one you specified. Look for the person you need in this list, click on his data, and you will be redirected to another page where a list of orders and other documents for this person will be indicated.
By choosing any of the documents listed here, you will have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with its digital form, and visually study all the documentation on the award received on this resource.
Work on other resource contributions is carried out in a similar way through the functionality of the search bar.
Conclusion
In this article, I described the resource "The Feat of the People", as well as the features of its functionality. At the same time, this project of the Ministry of Defense is not the only one of its kind. We can also note the project "Memory of the People", in which you can search for data on the place of military operations (there are data on more than two hundred military operations), according to decrees and other relevant documents. Access to unique historical data allows us to recreate a picture of the heroic past of our people, thereby contributing to the development of the spiritual and historical connection between the generations of our country.
Database
www.podvignaroda.ru
www.obd-memorial.ru
www.pamyat-naroda.ru
www.rkka.ru/ihandbook.htm
www.moypolk.ru
www.dokst.ru
www.polk.ru
www.pomnite-nas.ru
www.permgani.ru
fatherland.rf, rf-poisk.ru
rf-poisk.ru/page/34
soldat.com
memento.sebastopol.ua
memory-book.com.ua
soldat.ru - a set of directories for independent search for information about the fate of military personnel (including a directory of field postal stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945, a directory of conditional names of military units (institutions) in 1939-1943, a directory of the deployment of hospitals of the Red Army in 1941-1945);
www.rkka.ru - a directory of military abbreviations (as well as charters, instructions, directives, orders and personal documents of wartime).
Libraries
oldgazette.ru - old newspapers (including the war period);
www.rkka.ru - description of military operations of the Second World War, post-war analysis of the events of the Second World War, military memoirs.
military cards
www.rkka.ru - military topographic maps with combat situation (by periods of war and operations).
Search engine sites
www.rf-poisk.ru is the official website of the Russian Search Movement.
Archives
www.archives.ru - Federal Archival Agency (Rosarchiv);
www.rusarchives.ru - branch portal "Archives of Russia";
archive.mil.ru - Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense;
rgvarchive.ru
rgaspi.org
rgavmf.ru - Russian State Archive of the Navy (RGAVMF). The archive stores documents of the Russian Navy (end of the 17th century - 1940). Naval documentation of the period of the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period is stored in the Central Naval Archive (TsVMA) in Gatchina, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;
victory.rusarchives.ru - a list of federal and regional archives of Russia (with direct links and descriptions of collections of photographic and film documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War).
Partners of the Victory Stars project
www.mil.ru - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
www.histrf.ru - Russian Military Historical Society.
www.rgo.ru - Russian Geographical Society.
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Database
www.podvignaroda.ru - a publicly available electronic bank of documents on awardees and awards during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945;
www.obd-memorial.ru - a generalized data bank on the defenders of the Fatherland, who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period;
www.pamyat-naroda.ru is a public data bank about the fate of the participants in the Great Patriotic War. Search for places of primary burials and documents about awards, about service, about victories and hardships on the battlefields;
www.rkka.ru/ihandbook.htm - awarded the Order of the Red Banner in the period from 1921 to 1931;
www.moypolk.ru - information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War, including home front workers - the living, the dead, the dead and the missing. Collected and replenished by participants of the all-Russian action "Immortal Regiment";
www.dokst.ru - information about those who died in captivity in Germany;
www.polk.ru - information about Soviet and Russian soldiers who went missing in the wars of the 20th century (including the pages "The Great Patriotic War" and "Undelivered awards");
www.pomnite-nas.ru - photographs and descriptions of military graves;
www.permgani.ru - database on the website of the Perm State Archive of Recent History. Includes basic biographical information about former Red Army servicemen (natives of the Perm Territory or those called up for military service from the territory of the Kama region), who during the Great Patriotic War were surrounded and (or) captured by the enemy, and after returning to their homeland underwent a special state check (filtering);
fatherland.rf, rf-poisk.ru - electronic version of the book "Names from Soldiers' Medallions", volumes 1-6. They contain alphabetical information about those who died during the war years, whose remains, discovered during the search work, were identified;
rf-poisk.ru/page/34/ – memory books (by regions of Russia, with direct links and annotations);
soldat.ru - books of memory (for individual regions, military branches, individual units and formations, about those who died in captivity, those who died in Afghanistan, Chechnya);
memento.sebastopol.ua - Crimean virtual necropolis;
memory-book.com.ua - electronic memory book of Ukraine;
soldat.ru - a set of directories for independent search for information about the fate of military personnel (including a directory of field postal stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945, a directory of conditional names of military units (institutions) in 1939-1943, a directory of the deployment of hospitals of the Red Army in 1941-1945);
rgvarchive.ru - Russian State Military Archive (RGVA). The archive stores documents on the combat operations of the Red Army units in 1937-1939. near Lake Khasan, on the Khalkhin Gol River, in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Here are documents of the border and internal troops of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-MVD of the USSR since 1918; documents of the Main Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and institutions of its system (GUPVI of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR) for the period 1939-1960; personal documents of Soviet military leaders; documents of foreign origin (trophy). On the website of the archive you can also find guides and reference books that make it easier to work with it.
rgaspi.org - Russian State Archive of Socio-Political Information (RGASPI). The period of the Great Patriotic War in RGASPI is represented by the documents of the emergency body of state power - the State Defense Committee (GKO, 1941-1945) and the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander;
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 the advanced search, it is possible to set the following search parameters: full name, surname 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 from where 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
Generalized electronic databank "Memorial"
The main goal of the project is to enable millions of citizens to determine the fate or find information about their dead or missing relatives and friends, to determine the place of their burial.
The implementation of the technical part of the project - the creation and content of the OBD Memorial website (www.obd-memorial.ru) was entrusted to the ELAR corporation.
The data for filling the Generalized Data Bank are taken from official archival documents stored 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 and its regional branches, the Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland. The main body of documents is reports of combat units on irretrievable losses, other archival documents specifying losses (funerals, documents of hospitals and medical battalions, trophy cards of Soviet prisoners of war, etc.), as well as passports of burials of Soviet soldiers and officers.
OBD "Feat of the people"
In 2010, a generalized data bank "The feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" was launched. ((podvignaroda.ru)).
Generalized electronic databank "Feat of the people"
The resource was created on the initiative of the Information Technology Development Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. With its help, citizens can find information about the awards of grandfathers and great-grandfathers, find out the circumstances of their feats by reading their description in archival documents.
The data bank contains tens of millions of records from the protocols for the presentation and stubs of temporary certificates for awards, as well as for awarding orders and medals.
The goal of the project is to provide open access to complete information about military awards for feats during the Great Patriotic War, available in the Russian archives.
Portal "Memory of the people"
In 2015, the portal "Memory of the People" (pamyat-naroda.ru) was launched. This resource provides for the development of previously implemented by the Russian Ministry of Defense projects on World War II OBD "Memorial" and "Feat of the People", and also contains information about the losses and awards of soldiers and officers of the First World War.
The portal "Memory of the People" was created by the 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.
Combining all the data in one project made it possible for people to search for documents themselves, create personal archives, study the circumstances and tragic moments of hostilities.
Within the framework of the “Memory of the People” project, 425,000 archival documents of the fronts, armies and other units of the Red Army were digitized and posted on the Internet for the first time. These are original documents on the course of hostilities, orders, reports of commanders, operational descriptions of the combat situation. In addition, more than 100 thousand military maps were scanned and systematized, from which the positions of all military units marked on them were subsequently entered into the database.
In addition, more than 18 million records from award lists with descriptions of feats, submissions for awards are available on the portal. Over 12.5 million numbered awards have been digitized. Information about the places of primary burials of more than 5 million soldiers and officers who died in battle or died from wounds and diseases in hospitals and medical battalions is open.
The project is curated by the Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland. Technical support is provided by "ELAR" corporation.
History of development
2018
PT Application Inspector improves the security of the World War II online archive
To automatically check web applications of information resources about World War II, use the PT Application Inspector application source code security analyzer. This makes it possible to provide an even higher level of information security for online applications: the risks of having vulnerabilities in their source code are minimized, and by automating the search for vulnerabilities, the time spent on accepting the code as a whole is significantly reduced.
2017
Projected winner of the Ministry of Defense tender
The company "Elar" ("Electronic Archive") will predictably replenish the interactive service "Memory of the People" with information about the losses and injuries of soldiers during the Great Patriotic War and modernize the special software of the "Memorial" data bank, which contains information about the dead and missing during the war and the post-war period. She became the only participant in the tender of the Ministry of Defense with a starting price of the lot of 932.38 million rubles.
In the absence of competitors, the competition was officially declared invalid, but this will not become an obstacle to concluding a contract with the applicant, as stated in the minutes of the competition commission.
Elara's price offer amounted to 930.91 million rubles. Now the company has until November 24, 2017 to complete all the work, the purpose of which is to increase the completeness and clarity of information about the fate of front-line soldiers, "a clear reflection of the results of the work of the Ministry of Defense" in this area, as well as solving the tasks of patriotic education of the younger generation.
Cancellation of the tender
Tender for replenishment of the "Memory of the People" service and modernization of the "Memorial" data bank
The Ministry of Defense will add information to the interactive service "Memory of the People" and modernize the "Memorial" data bank. The corresponding tender with an initial price of 932 million rubles was announced on March 20, 2017.
The Ministry of Defense will replenish the service "Memory of the People" and modernize the data bank "Memorial"
As part of the project, it is required to increase the completeness and visibility of information about the fate of front-line soldiers, including those who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War (WWII). It is also necessary to reflect the results of the work of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to perpetuate the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland.
The contract executor will have to carry out the development of the interactive service "Memory of the People", based on the results of operation and user feedback. The result of this should be an increase in functionality, an improvement in the ergonomics of the web interface, an increase in the relevance of search results for user requests, and an easier navigation of users through historical documents while increasing their number of species and volume.
In addition, the customer expects to analyze information security events and optimize the software and hardware complex that ensures the functioning of services and databases.
The main part of the work is related to the processing of archival documents and the creation of an electronic information resource to replenish the existing sections of the "Memory of the People" service. In particular, documents specifying losses (burial books, cases with information from the ZSP), as well as documents on injuries and deaths from wounds in hospitals and medical battalions, should be processed. In addition, the service should be supplemented with information from documents captured and kept in foreign archives about Soviet prisoners of war and those buried abroad.
In addition to this tender, on March 20, the Ministry of Defense announced two more similar tenders. In the first one, it is required to supplement the data bank “The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” of the interactive service “Memory of the People”, which contains information about awards and military operations during the Great Patriotic War. The works are estimated at 328 million rubles.
The second competition involves filling the Memorial data bank with personal information and electronic images of documents on losses during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period. Works for this competition are estimated at 15 million rubles.
2016
Modernization of the portal "Memory of the people"
The portal, which contains the most complete database and documents on the course of hostilities and participants in the Great Patriotic War, has been updated and fully adapted for use on mobile devices, and the search system has been improved.
In addition to modernizing the site interface, the ability to search for information on the portal has been improved. For example, now you can more accurately determine the circumstances of the end of the combat path of war participants. Data on places of disposal and places of primary burials are distinguished, as well as lists of those who died in a particular hospital at the time of its location in a certain place and lists of those who died in the same hospital in other territories.
During 2015, data from the geographical maps of the war times were correlated with modern maps, which now show places of conscription, military transit points, and deployment of military units. Tracking the combat path of a soldier or officer on the map, the visitor studies in detail the history of military operations of specific units using combat logs and unit documents - all documents relating to a particular person are automatically linked by the system. In 2015, data on the place and time of the accomplishment of feats was also entered, and lists of awards sorted by date appeared on the search results page in the "Heroes of War" section. Thus, users immediately get an idea of the chronology of the heroic milestones in the fate of their grandfather or great-grandfather, and then can find out the circumstances of the exploits.
According to the representative of ELAR, during the May holidays of the current year, the portal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Memory of the People" was visited by almost 1 million people, and more than 9 million documents were viewed.
Portal "Memory of the people" replenished with 3 million new information
In the spring of 2016, ELAR Corporation, together with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, completed the next stage of entering records from documents of military transit points and military commissariats into the data banks of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: the Memory of the People portal and the website of the OBD "Memorial" were replenished with more than 3 million data.
| During 2015, information on 15 million records about the fates, places of disposal and primary burials was put on modern maps. More than 250,000 documents have been entered to clarify losses. Added 6 million records of awards for the defense, capture and liberation of cities and territories. As a result of the digitization of case stubs, 500,000 data on awards not presented to heroes with a history of exploits were revealed. 12.5 million records are supplemented with the place and date of the feat. The data and documents of the "Memory of the People" are also available on the portals "Memorial" and "Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." accordingly, - commented on the current results of the work, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov. |
The speaker recalled that the “Memory of the People” portal was opened exactly a year ago to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The project of the Russian Ministry of Defense is based on the use of new IT tools based on the combined data banks "Memorial" and "The Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", as well as the digitization and placement of new archival documents and data in the public domain.
Thanks to the pooling of resources, users search for information in a consolidated way using the tools of an intelligent search system. The system of the “Memory of the People” portal automatically displays a selection with similar data of a war veteran about his awards, exploits, place of death or burial. Moreover, now users can see the entire combat path of a WWII participant. Places of conscription, participation in military operations, military transit points, deployment of military units are marked on a modern map, correlated with maps of the war. The portal contains more than 100,000 original combat maps. Tracking the combat path of a soldier or officer on the map, the user gets the opportunity to study the history of military operations of specific units in detail - the portal system automatically displays a selection of combat logs and operational management documents. More than 425,000 documents of armies and fronts on 216 military operations have been published on the portal. The developers of the resource recreated the structure of the Red Army on a particular date.
| Today, the portal has collected and opened information about the places of primary burials of more than 5 million soldiers and officers who died in battle or died from wounds and diseases in hospitals and medical battalions. Relatives and friends, having learned the address of the primary burial and finding this place on historical and modern maps, will be able to recall the memory of the feat of fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, - said Maxim Bayuk, Deputy Director of the Projects Department of the ELAR Corporation. |
On the portal you can get acquainted with the lists of those who were called up in one or another military registration and enlistment office, find out how the roads of battles of fellow countrymen crossed. Users can save the found data in the "Personal archive". "Personal archive" can be supplemented independently with documents, photographs, letters - everything that is stored in home archives, and can be accessed from any electronic devices.
2014: Development of databanks and creation of service "Memory of the people"
In 2014, the Ministry of Defense held a competition for the development and replenishment of public data banks "Memorial", "Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and the creation of an interactive service "Memory of the People".
As part of the project, it was required to modernize the software of generalized data banks and develop the “Memory of the People” service.
In addition, it was necessary to carry out work on processing documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, replenishing the sections of the system with new documents related to irretrievable losses and awards, and operational actions.
The new service “Memory of the People”, based on interactive wartime maps and modern navigation systems, was supposed to be filled with archival documents on the decision-making on the management of hostilities, on the results of major military operations, which made it possible to visually trace the movement of units during the implementation of military operations and link specific episodes of these operations with the corresponding documents from the ODB "Memorial" and the ODB "Feat of the People".
The ELAR corporation became the winner of the competition and the executor of the contract. All work cost the ministry 1.1 billion rubles.
2007: Creation of OBD "Memorial"
In 2007, on the initiative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Generalized Data Bank "Memorial" was created.
The Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out work that is unique in terms of scale, technology and deadlines, as a result of which an information and reference system of global importance was created, which, according to the developers of the project, has no analogues in world practice.
OBD was created by scanning, processing and entering into the Internet information retrieval system archival documents stored in the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defense and in the Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces.