Collection of military documents of the Great Patriotic War. Databases for searching information about WWII participants on the Internet Documents on WWII

On the anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, the Ministry of Defense published more than 100 pages of declassified memories on its website Soviet military leaders. Documents from the declassified funds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense include answers from district, army, corps and division commanders to five key questions prepared by the Military Historical Directorate of the General Staff Soviet army.

In 1952, a group was created in the Military Historical Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army under the leadership of Colonel General A.P. Pokrovsky, which began developing a description of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

The assignments were sent to the commanders of districts, armies, corps and division commanders who were in charge in the first days of the war.

The materials received by the Military Historical Directorate, authored by famous Soviet military leaders, were carefully studied and analyzed and formed the basis of fundamental scientific works, describing the course of the Great Patriotic War from the point of view of military specialists.

DEREVYANKO KUZMA NIKOLAEVICH
lieutenant general
In 1941 - deputy head of the intelligence department of the headquarters of the Baltic Special Military District (North-Western Front)

“Grouping of Nazi troops on the eve of the war in the Memel region, in East Prussia and in the Suwalki region in last days before the war was known to the district headquarters quite fully and in a significant part of it and in detail.

The uncovered grouping of fascist German troops on the eve of hostilities was regarded by the intelligence department [of the district headquarters] as an offensive group with a significant saturation of tanks and motorized units.”

BAGRAMYAN IVAN HRISTOFOROVICH
Marshal Soviet Union
In 1941 - head of the operational department of the headquarters of the Kyiv Special Military District (Southwestern Front)

“The troops directly providing cover state border, had detailed plans and documentation up to and including the regiment. Field positions were prepared for them along the entire border. These troops represented the first operational echelon.”

“The covering troops, the first operational echelon, were stationed directly at the borders and began deployment under the cover of fortified areas with the outbreak of hostilities.”
“Their advance entry to prepared positions was prohibited by the General Staff so as not to give a reason for provoking war on the part of Nazi Germany.”

Feat Soviet soldier, who defeated fascism, is difficult to overestimate even in today's difficult times.

The names of many, many heroes remained unknown or forgotten, and the further we go, the more difficult it is to find traces.

Which could reliably fill in the gaps in the heroic history of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War.

Portal of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation designed to restore pages military history at least with the names of unknown soldiers who forever became heroes.

The portal of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense is an electronic resource available at the link archive.mil.ru.

Which contains information about documents relating to the course of the war, senior and junior commanders and privates, army compositions and smaller structural units.

The scientific department is engaged in restoration historical events those times based on documents and artifacts that, although rare, continue to be found.

The main goal of the portal and the Central Archive is to provide assistance to the relatives of soldiers and officers who participated in hostilities and died in them or went missing.

The portal itself was created in order to facilitate and simplify the submission of a request to the archive about fallen soldiers.

The second equally important purpose of the archive is to search for people who at that time were awarded orders and medals for services to the Motherland, but did not have time or for some reason were unable to receive them.

A separate small subsection of the site is dedicated to this, where a list of soldiers and officers who have not been awarded their awards is presented.

This list is small and probably does not include everyone who is yet to receive their reward, but as new information becomes available, it is constantly updated on the site.

Structure of the portal of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense

The portal is quite large and has many “structural divisions”. It consists of three parts, for which their own menu items are provided.

The top menu represents sections of the archive portal itself. From this menu you can submit an application to search for a relative who died in the war.

The scientific reference apparatus, the archive's reading room are also described, links to electronic resources are provided, and contact information is also provided.

Generalized database "Memorial"

The project Generalized Data Bank “Memorial” deserves special attention.

It is with its help that you can search and find the person of interest who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

The main sources of information used for the search are described in the “Sources of Information” section at the bottom of the page.

• These are reports of personnel losses after large-scale and more local battles;
• Information about the reorganization of troops;
• Descriptions of burials and certificates of the dead or missing;
• Military medical documentation, other documents;
• Including prisoners of war of our army and the enemy.

All materials amounted to more than 20 million records on more than 10 million sheets.

All this information was systematized and presented in electronic view.

To get the total brief information about a specific serviceman, you need to fill out a search form, which has a short and extended version.

If only the last name, first name and patronymic are known, it is enough to use the short form.

If you have more detailed data, it is better to use the advanced search.

Documents searched for.

After entering all known data into the expanded search form at the bottom of the page, you need to click the “Search” button.

Based on the search results, a list of names of soldiers and officers is displayed, among which may be the person of interest.

Note! Although this resource created by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the archive contains information not only about Russians, but also about residents of other former republics, since they all belonged to the same army - the Soviet one.

The icons at the end of each line allow you to view summary information about specific person, view the document or download its electronic version.

Submitting a request to the archive and electronic reception

You can submit a request to search for information about a person through the “Services” section.

They are divided depending on the affiliation of the person of interest to a particular unit or formation.

The forms provided are automatically downloaded and can be printed and completed manually, or completed electronically and then printed completed.

You can submit a request in two ways: by mail or by personally coming to the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

An electronic form of the questionnaire is also provided, which is filled out online. From those offered, you need to select the appropriate one and click the “Create” button.

After this, a form with required fields will appear.

They need to include the relevant information, as well as the contact details of the person making the request and to whom the response will be sent.

Electronic reception

You can also log in Personal Area, get background information or read the most popular questions and their answers.

If it is necessary to send a message or appeal to the Ministry of Defense, the citizen must register a Personal Account.

This can be done using the link “Citizen’s Personal Account”. This link takes you to the login form, where there is a link to register.

To register you need to enter personal data, address Email and come up with a strong password.

After which you can freely use your personal account.

Military History Library and Reading Room

The section “Military Historical Library” provides information about the library itself and its activities, management, announcements about events and activities that are planned in the library.

The “Gold Fund” section contains several links to the most extensive works on history military glory Russian weapons, about military men and sailors, historical personalities.

Note! The site does not present electronic versions of books and printed publications, except for books from the “Golden Fund”.

However, the latter are only available for reading and not for downloading.
The library also displays small exhibitions of military uniforms of Russian army soldiers from different times.

The “Reading Room” section of the portal contains instructions on using the exhibits in the reading room, working with documents and literature, and the procedure for making copies of documents.

Attention! The reading room is open only on certain days, and to work with documents you must first make an application.

Other sections of the portal

The portal is a rather large and complex structure.

Some of its sections contain reference and informational information, and the literary and documentary fund itself is not available online.

The other part is of the nature of a search and education of patriotism and feeling historical memory and the feat accomplished by our ancestors.

To study in more detail all the capabilities of the portal or solve a specific issue, you need to devote more time and, possibly, contact the user support service.

Attention! All information on this site is presented for informational purposes only. The site does not collect or process personal data. the federal law dated July 27, 2006 N 152-FZ “On Personal Data” is not violated.

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

Volunteer project "Archive Battalion"

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

People's project “Establishing the fate of missing defenders of the Fatherland”

At present, the fate of more than 4.7 million defenders of the Fatherland who went missing during the Great Patriotic War has not been established. To this day, the remains of a large number of Russian soldiers and officers remain unburied.

Memory of the people

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

Feat of the people

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

Generalized database "Memorial"

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

Immortal Regiment of Russia

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

Electronic book of memory “Immortal Regiment - Moscow”

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

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

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

"The Winners" - Soldiers of the Great War

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

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

Electronic memorial “Remember About”

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

Memorial of the Great Patriotic War

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

MIPOD "Immortal Regiment"

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

Find a soldier. Memo for those who are looking for their heroes

1. Check the data on the OBD Memorial website

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. Check parameter information

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

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

• Issue 01 Preparation and breakthrough of the enemy’s fortified defenses. Assault on the fortress and city of Königsberg
• Issue 02 Breaking through the enemy's fortified zone. Organizing, planning and conducting an artillery offensive. Fight in the depths of the enemy's defense. Actions of assault groups. Overcoming water obstacles
• Issue 03 Combat operations of troops in the mountains. Engineering support for an offensive operation (combat). Combat operations of assault troops and groups. Actions of mobile barrage detachments and groups of tank destroyer sappers. Demining. Crossing water barriers
• Issue 04 Artillery combat operations in an offensive operation (battle). Artillery combat operations in a defensive operation (battle)
• Issue 05 Offensive and defense. Use of military branches and military equipment
• Issue 06 Offensive. Defense. Use of military branches in operations and in combat
• Issue 07 Combat use of aviation of the Soviet Army. Combat use of air defense troops
• Issue 10 Orders, directives, instructions and instructions to troops on the organization and conduct of offensive and defensive battles (operations), the use of combat arms in battle (operations) and combat support for troops
• Issue 11 Orders, directives and instructions from the commanders of fronts and armies on the organization and conduct of offensive and defensive battles (operations), the use of combat arms of troops in battle (operations) and combat support of troops
• Issue 12 Orders, directives, instructions and instructions of commanders of fronts and armies on the organization and conduct of offensive and defensive battles and operations
• Issue 13 Orders, directives and instructions from commanders of fronts and armies on issues of combat training of troops
• Issue 14 Documents characterizing combat training troops of the combined arms army, which were on the defensive in the first echelon of the operational formation of the front troops, as well as documents on the organization and conduct of combat training of the troops of the combined arms army, which were in the reserve of the Headquarters or in the second echelon of the front
• Issue 15 Orders, directives, instructions and instructions from the headquarters of the armored and mechanized forces of the Soviet Army, commanders of the front forces, commanders of the armored and mechanized forces of the fronts and commanders tank armies on the use of armored and mechanized troops
• Issue 16 Orders, directives, instructions and instructions from the commanders of fronts and armies, the commander of artillery of the Soviet Army, artillery commanders of fronts and armies on the organization of anti-tank and air defense of troops
• Issue 17 Orders, directives, orders and instructions issued by the commanders of fronts, armies and heads of military branches of fronts and armies on the organization of an attack on the enemy, fortified in populated areas, and on adaptation to the defense of populated areas by our troops
• Issue 18 Orders, directives, instructions and instructions from the chief of engineering troops of the Soviet Army, commanders of fronts and armies and chiefs of engineering troops of fronts and armies on engineering support for offensive and defense
• Issue 19 Orders, directives and instructions on issues of command and control and organization of communications in offensive and defense
• Issue 20 Orders, directives and instructions from commanders of fronts, armies, corps and division commanders to ensure flanks and joints. Index of documents included in collections of military documents of the Great Patriotic War No. 1-20
• Issue 21 Orders, directives, instructions, instructions and reports of commanders of fronts, armies and their deputies for armored and mechanized forces on the use of tanks and self-propelled artillery in offensive combat
• Issue 22 Orders, reports, reports and other documents of army commanders, corps commanders, divisions and their deputies for logistics, devoted to the organization and work of military logistics
• Issue 23 Directives, plans, instructions, orders and instructions from the commanders of fronts, armies and their deputies for the rear on the organization and work of the rear in offensive and defense
• Issue 24 Orders, directives, plans and combat orders of front and army commanders, corps and division commanders for an offensive with river crossings
• Issue 25 Orders, directives, instructions, instructions, instructions and reporting documents of units, formations and formations of the Soviet Army on the preparation, organization and conduct of combat operations at night
• Issue 26 Directives, orders, instructions, instructions, instructions, planned interaction tables, reports and extracts from reports of formations and formations of the Soviet Army on interaction between aviation and ground forces
• Issue 27 Orders, directives, instructions, instructions, plans, reports and reports of armies and fronts on issues of operational camouflage of troops
• Issue 28 Directives, orders, directives, instructions, reports, reports, operational and final reports, summaries of generalized experience of combat operations and extracts from combat logs of troops characterizing the organization and conduct of pursuit by Soviet troops of the retreating enemy
• Issue 29 Directives, orders, directives, instructions, plans, reports, reports, operational reports, combat reports, summaries of generalized experience of combat operations and extracts from logs of combat operations of troops on the regrouping and change of troops of formations and associations
• Issue 30 Directives, orders, instructions, instructions, reports, reports, summaries of generalized experience of combat operations and extracts from military combat logs of troops characterizing the organization and conduct of an offensive by Soviet troops with river crossings on the move
• Issue 31 Orders, instructions, instructions, combat reports and operational reports of the 1st and 2nd Guards Rifle Divisions (formerly the 100th and 127th Rifle Divisions), characterizing the combat operations of these divisions in the period from June 22 to December 31, 1941 G.
• Issue 32 Orders, instructions, combat reports and operational reports of the 3rd and 4th Guards Rifle Divisions (formerly the 153rd and 161st Rifle Divisions), characterizing the combat operations of these divisions in the period from June 22 to December 31, 1941.
• Issue 33 1941. Combat operations of armored and mechanized troops in the North-Western direction. Combat operations of armored and mechanized troops in the Western direction. Combat operations of armored and mechanized troops in the South-Western direction
• Issue 34 1941. Combat documents By defensive operation in Lithuania and Latvia, carried out from June 22 to July 9, 1941 by troops of the North-Western Front. Documents of the Directorate of the Baltic Special Military District and the Field Directorate of the North-Western Front. Documents of the field administration of the 8th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 11th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 27th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 10th Rifle Corps. Documents from the headquarters of the 16th Rifle Corps. Report of the commander of the 12th and report of the commander of the 1st mechanized corps
• Issue 35 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the Western Front from June 22 to July 5, 1941. Documents of the administration of the Western Special Military District and the Field Administration of the Western Front. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 3rd Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 4th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 10th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 13th Army. Documents of the departments of the 2nd, 44th, 47th Rifle Corps and the headquarters of the mountain garrison. Borisov
• Issue 36 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the South-Western and Southern Fronts in Western Ukraine and Moldova from June 22 to July 11, 1941. Documents of the Field Directorate of the South-Western Front. Documents from the headquarters of the 5th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 6th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 26th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 12th Army. Report of the commander of the 15th Mechanized Corps to the head of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army on the combat operations of the corps from June 22 to July 12, 1941. Documents from the headquarters of the Southern Front. Documents from the headquarters of the 18th Army. Documents from the 9th Army headquarters
• Issue 37 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the Western Front and the Front of Reserve Armies (Reserve Front) from July 3 to August 7, 1941. Headquarters Documents Supreme High Command and the General Staff of the Red Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the High Command Western direction. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Western Front. Documents of the Field Administration of the Front of the Reserve Armies (Reserve Front). Documents from the headquarters of the 4th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 13th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 16th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 19th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 20th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 21st Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 22nd Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 24th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 28th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 29th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 30th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the operational group of troops in the Yartsevo direction. Documents from the headquarters of the operational group of Kalinin troops. List of abbreviations found in documents
• Issue 38 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the South-Western direction from July 11 to July 25, 1941 Documents Documents of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, General Staff and Headquarters Air Force Red Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Main Command of the South-Western Direction. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Southwestern Front. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Southern Front. Documents from the headquarters of the 5th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 6th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 9th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 12th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 18th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 26th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 27th Rifle Corps. Documents from the headquarters of the 64th Rifle Corps. Documents from the headquarters of the Kyiv fortified region. List of abbreviations found in documents
• Issue 39 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the South-Western direction from July 26 to August 6, 1941. Documents of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, the General Staff and the Headquarters of the Air Force of the Red Army. Documents of the Headquarters of the Main Command of the South-Western direction. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Southwestern Front. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Southern Front. Documents from the headquarters of the 5th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 6th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 9th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 12th Army. Combat report from the commander of the 18th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 26th Army. Combat order from the commander of the 27th Rifle Corps. Documents from the headquarters of the 64th Rifle Corps. Documents from the headquarters of the Kyiv fortified region. List of abbreviations found in documents
• Issue 40 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the South-Western direction on the right bank and left bank of Ukraine from August 6 to September 25, 1941. Documents from the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense and the General Staff of the Red Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Main Command of the South-Western Direction. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Southwestern Front. Documents of the Field Directorate of the Southern Front. Documents from the headquarters of the 5th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 6th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 9th Army. Documents of the Field Directorate of the 12th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 18th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 26th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 37th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 38th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 27th Rifle Corps. List of abbreviations found in documents
• Issue 41 1941. Directive of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command to the troops of the Western Front No. 001254 of August 25, 1941 on the development offensive operation with the aim of defeating the Smolensk enemy group. Documents of the field administration of the Western Front. Documents of the field administration of the 16th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 19th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 20th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 22nd Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 29th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 30th Army
• Issue 42 1941. Documents on the combat operations of the troops of the Southern Front in Donbass from September 26 to November 5, 1941. Documents from the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. Documents of the field administration of the Southern Front. Documents of the field administration of the 9th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 12th Army. Documents of the field administration of the 18th Army
• Issue 43 Documents on the combat operations of the Bryansk Front troops in the Oryol and Kursk directions from August 16 to October 29, 1941. Documents of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command and the General Staff of the Red Army. Documents of the field administration of the Bryansk Front. Documents from the headquarters of the 3rd Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 13th Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 21st Army. Documents from the headquarters of the 50th Army. Documents of the operational group of the Bryansk Front under the command of Major General Ermakov. List officials. Soviet operational art during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Soviet tactics during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. ))

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

Otechestvort.rf, rf-poisk.ru

rf-poisk.ru/page/34

soldat.ru

memento.sebastopol.ua

memory-book.com.ua

soldat.ru – a set of reference books for independent search information about the fate of military personnel (including a directory of field postal stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945, a directory of code names military units(institutions) in 1939-1943, directory of the deployment of Red Army hospitals in 1941-1945);

www.rkka.ru - a directory of military abbreviations (as well as charters, manuals, directives, orders and personal documents of wartime).

Libraries

oldgazette.ru – old newspapers (including those from 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 the combat situation (by war periods and operations).

Search Engine Sites

www.rf-poisk.ru is the official website of the Russian Search Movement.

Archives

www.archives.ru – Federal Archive Agency (Rosarkhiv);

www.rusarchives.ru – industry portal “Archives of Russia”;

archive.mil.ru – Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense;

rgvarchive.ru

rgaspi.org

rgavmf.ru – Russian state archive Navy (RGAVMF). The archive stores documents of the Russian Navy (late 17th century - 1940). Naval documentation of the period of the Great Patriotic War and post-war period stored in the Central Naval Archive (CVMA) 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 photo and film documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War).

Partners of the Stars of Victory 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 accessible electronic bank of documents on recipients and awards during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945;

www.obd-memorial.ru - a generalized data bank about defenders of the Fatherland, those killed and missing during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period;

www.pamyat-naroda.ru is a publicly accessible data bank about the fate of participants in the Great Patriotic War. Search for places of primary burials and documents about awards, service, 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 participants in the Great Patriotic War, including home front workers - living, dead, dead and missing. Collected and replenished by participants in the all-Russian action “Immortal Regiment”;

www.dokst.ru – information about those killed in captivity in Germany;

www.polk.ru – information about Soviet and Russian soldiers, missing in action 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 modern history. Includes basic biographical information about former Red Army soldiers (natives Perm region or called to 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 they underwent a special state check (filtration);

Otechestvort.rf, rf-poisk.ru – electronic version of the book “Names from Soldiers’ Medallions”, volumes 1-6. Contains alphabetical information about those killed during the war whose remains, discovered during search operations, were identified;

rf-poisk.ru/page/34 / – books of memory (by regions of Russia, with direct links and annotations);

soldat.ru – books of memory (for individual regions, types of troops, 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 – eBook memory of Ukraine;

soldat.ru - a set of reference books for independently searching 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 the code names of military units (institutions) in 1939-1943, a directory of the location of Red Army hospitals in 1941-1945 years);

rgvarchive.ru – Russian State Military Archive (RGVA). The archive stores documents about the military operations of the Red Army units in 1937-1939. near Lake Khasan, on the Khalkhin Gol River, in Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940 Here are the documents of border and internal troops Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-MVD USSR since 1918; documents of the Main Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs and institutions of its system (GUPVI 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 archive's website you can also find guides and reference books that make working with it easier.

rgaspi.org – Russian State Archive of Socio-Political Information (RGASPI). The period of the Great Patriotic War in RGASPI is represented by documents of an emergency body of state power - the State Defense Committee (GKO, 1941-1945) and the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief;