Veteran vov alekseenko roman filipovich. How to find out where my grandfather fought in WWII, what awards did he have? Immortal regiment of Russia

We have kept the memory of the Great War of the 20th century and its heroes for over 70 years. We pass it on to our children and grandchildren, trying not to lose a single fact or 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 painstaking work of employees of the 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, data on 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 start right away, only in 1980, with the arrival of glasnost in the USSR, historians and politicians, archivists were able to start official work. Until that time, there were scattered data that were profitable at that time.

• After celebrating the Victory Day in 1945, JV Stalin announced that we had buried 7 million Soviet citizens. He spoke, in his opinion, about everyone, both those who lay down during the battle, and 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 inhabitants and blockades of Leningrad who died in small villages; missing. Unfortunately, they can be enumerated for a long time.
• Later L.I. Brezhnev provided other information, he reported 20 million dead.

Today, thanks to the decryption of secret documents, search operations, the numbers are becoming real. Thus, you can see the following picture:

• The 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 complete reality. War, and even such a war, is not only the destruction of the enemy at the cost of his own life. These are broken families - unborn children. This is a huge loss of the male population, thanks to which the balance necessary for good demography will not be restored soon.

These are diseases, hunger in the post-war years and death from it. This is rebuilding the country anew, 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, whose name is war.

How to find a participant in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945 by last name?

There is no better memory for the stars of victory than the desire of the future generation to know. The desire to preserve information for others, to avoid such a repetition. How to find a WWII participant by last name, where can I find possible data on grandfathers and great-grandfathers, fathers - participants in battles, knowing their last name? There are now electronic repositories specially for this, to which everyone has access.

1. obd-memorial.ru - it contains official data containing reports of units about losses, funerals, trophy cards, as well as information about rank, status (died, was killed or disappeared, where), scanned documents.
2. 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 job of these resources is not only to find great people, but also to collect information about them. If you have any, please inform the administrators of these sites. Thus, we will do a great common cause - we will preserve memory and history.

Archive of the Ministry of Defense: search by last name of WWII participants

Another - the main, central, most ambitious 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, the staff of the Central Asia 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 soldier 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.
• Indicate his full name.
• The program will give you the available information: date of birth, awards, scanned documents. Everything that is in the card files for this person.
• You can set the filter on the right by selecting only the sources you want. But it's better to choose everything.
• On this site, it is possible to look at the combat operations on the map, and the path of the unit in which the hero served.

This project is unique in its essence. There is no longer such a volume of data collected and digitized from all existing and accessible sources: card indexes, electronic memory books, documents of medical battalions and directories of command personnel. In truth, as long as there are such programs and 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 diminish from this. Who knows in which folder the information you need could have been hidden.

WWII participants: search by last name, archive and awards

Where else can you look? There are more specialized repositories, for example:

1. dokst.ru. As we said, those who were in captivity also became victims of this terrible war. Their fate can be displayed on foreign sites like this one. Here, the database contains everything about Russian prisoners of war and burials of Soviet citizens. You only need to know the last name, you can see the lists of captured people. The Scientific Research Center for Documentation is located in 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.
2. Rosarkhiv archives.ru is an agency that is an executive authority that keeps records of all government documents. You can apply here with a request either via the Internet or by phone. A sample of an electronic appeal is available on the website in the section "requests", left column on the page. Some services are provided here 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.
3. rgavmf.ru - a reference book of the navy about the fate and great deeds of our sailors. In the section "orders and applications" 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 and feats, an open portal dedicated to this www.podvignaroda.ru has been organized. Here is published information about 6 million cases of awarding, as well as 500,000 medals and orders not awarded, which did not reach the recipient. Knowing the name of your hero, you can find a lot about his fate. The laid out scanned documents of orders and award sheets, data from the registration cards, will complement the knowledge you have.

Who else can I contact for information about awards?

• On the website of the Central Asia Ministry of Defense, in the section "Awards are looking for their heroes", a list of the awarded fighters who did not receive them is published. Additional surnames can be found by phone.
• rkka.ru/ihandbook.htm - encyclopedia of the red army. It contains some lists of the assignment of higher officer ranks and special ranks. The information may not be as extensive, but the existing sources should not be neglected.
• https://www.warheroes.ru/ is a project created to popularize the exploits of the defenders of the Fatherland.

A lot of useful information, which sometimes is not available anywhere, 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 be found only on the forums. Do not bypass this type of search.

WWII veterans: search by last name

1. oldgazette.ru is an interesting project created by ideological people. A person who wants to find information enters data, they can be any: name, name of awards and date of receipt, line from the document, description of the event. This combination of words will be calculated by search engines, but not just on sites, but in old newspapers. Based on the results, you will see everything that you could find. Suddenly it is here that you are lucky, you will find at least a thread.
2. It so happens that we search among the dead, but we 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 find them, use the website pobediteli.ru. People who are looking here send letters, where they ask for help to find their fellow soldiers, casual oncoming war. The possibilities of the project allow you to select a person by name and region, even if he lives abroad. Seeing him in these lists or similar, you need to contact the administration and discuss this issue. The kind, attentive staff 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 it is quite possible to publish your search request. More than 1000 people have been able to find each other in this way.
3. 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 deceased heroes. Who else will tell us the truth about those events, about what we have experienced and suffered. About how we met the victory - the very first, dearest, saddest and happiest at the same time.

Additional sources

Regional archives were created throughout the country. Not so large, holding on, often on the shoulders of ordinary people, they have kept unique single records. Their addresses are on the website of the movement to perpetuate the memory of the victims. As well as:

• https://www.1942.ru/ - "Seeker".
• https://iremember.ru/ - memories, letters, archives.
• https://www.biograph-soldat.ru/ - international biographical center.

With the help of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, an electronic bank was created "The feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." which is located at podvignaroda.mil.ru, on it you can find information about the exploits and awards of your fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers by name and surname. The search is carried out according to military archival documents that have been digitized and entered into the site's database.

How and where to look?

The site "Heroic deeds of the people" is the most complete and up-to-date database on the participants in the Great Patriotic War - there is information about almost all the soldiers. At the first stage of digitization from 2010 to 2015, 30 million records were made on the awarding of orders and medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit", as well as information on 22 million Orders of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees for the 40th anniversary of Victory, and also 200 thousand archival files with a total volume of 100 million sheets!

Such a huge amount of work has been done for the main goal of the project:

The main goals of the project are to perpetuate the memory of all heroes of Victory, regardless of rank, scale of feat, award status, military-patriotic education of youth on the example of military exploits of their fathers, as well as creation of a factual basis for countering attempts to falsify the history of the War.

There are 3 main search options:

1. Search for people and their awards
2. Search for decrees and orders for rewarding
3. Finding data by place and time

To find a person, use the first search option, for this open the site http://podvignaroda.mil.ru/ and go to the "People and awards" tab and enter the last name and first name of the person whose awards you want to find.

To search for decrees and data on the place of hostilities, we advise you to use another site - "Memory of the People", which will be described below.

If you want to search by the award number, you will not be able to do this, because the award numbers are not indicated in the awarding documents.

If information about the fate of a person is not known, then the "People's feat" site will not suit you, because it does not contain data on the dead or missing. Such information should be found on the website www.obd-memorial.ru, trying different spellings of surnames and first names. wartime documents could contain errors in the name or date of birth.

Recall that the initiator of this project is the Department of Information and Telecommunication Technologies Development of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and technical support is provided by the ELAR company. Thanks to them for this site!

Information is taken from two funds: the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (CA MO) and the Central Naval Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsVMA).

Memory of the people

Later, a more modern site https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ "Memory of the People" with documents of the Second World War was opened, which has a nicer design and, most importantly, more information, maps and historical data.

With the help of the "Memory of the People" portal, it has become even easier to restore the combat path of your grandfather, to find documents on wounds and awards.

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

On the page https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ops/ you can see plans for 226 operations with detailed schemes on the map. Each page about the operation contains the names of the commanders and the numbers of the military units, as well as a description of the result of the operation.

Figure 1 - Modern map of military operations during the Second World War.

On the page https://pamyat-naroda.ru/memorial/ you can find military graves in your city. It is enough to enter the name of the city and click the "Find" button. In total, there is information about 30,588 burials around the world, except for the United States.

Figure 2 - Military burials with names and surnames.

The page about the burial contains information about its condition (good, bad, excellent), the type of burial, the number of graves, the number of known and unknown burials. Also on the page is a list of buried persons with names and dates of birth and death.

Today, anyone has the opportunity to find information about relatives and friends, those killed or missing during the Great Patriotic War. To study documents containing personal data of military personnel during the war, many sites have been created. "WG" provides an overview of the most useful ones. Therefore, do not despair if you did not manage to find any data about your relatives in the bank of unreceived awards of the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" - the search can be continued on other Internet resources.

Database

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

Libraries

oldgazette.ru - old newspapers (including the war period).

www.rkka.ru - a description of the military operations of the Second World War, a post-war analysis of the events of the Second World War, military memoirs.

Military maps

www.rkka.ru - military topographic maps with a combat situation (by periods of war and operations)

Search engine sites

www.rf-poisk.ru - the official website of the Search Engine of Russia

Archives

www.archives.ru - Federal Archival Agency (Rosarkhiv)

www.rusarchives.ru - industry portal "Archives of Russia"

archive.mil.ru - Central archive of the Ministry of Defense.

rgvarchive.ru - Russian State Military Archive (RGVA). The archive stores documents on the military actions 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 - documents of the border and internal troops of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 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 USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs) of the period 1939-1960; personal documents of Soviet military leaders; documents of foreign origin (trophy). On the archive website you can also find

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 Archival Battalion volunteer project to restore information about participants in the wars of the 20th century accepts and processes applications for researching the combat path of participants in the Great Patriotic War.

People's project "Establishing the fate of the 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. Until now, the remains of a large number of Russian soldiers and officers remain unburied.

Memory of the people

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

The feat of the people

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

Generalized data bank "Memorial"

The generalized databank contains information about the defenders of the Fatherland, who died and went missing 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 transferred into electronic form, with a total volume of more than 10 million sheets. The personal information contained in them amounted to more than 20 million records.

Immortal regiment of Russia

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

Electronic memory book "Immortal regiment - Moscow"

"Immortal regiment - Moscow" together with the centers of state services "My Documents" collect information about the inhabitants of the capital who took part in the Great Patriotic War. Now there are more than 193 thousand names in the archive.

"Soldat.ru" - a database of those killed in the Second World War

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

"Winners" - Soldiers of the Great War

With our project, we want to thank the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War living next to us by name and tell about their heroism. 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 next to us.

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

Electronic memorial "Remember Pro"

On the PomniPro social site, each registered user can create a memory page, a photo gallery of a deceased loved one and a dear person, tell 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 the dead and missing in the Great Patriotic War.

Memorial of the Great Patriotic War

The site is conceived as a people's encyclopedia, a virtual memorial to the fallen participants of the Great War, where everyone can leave their comments on any entry, add information about the Participant in the war 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 website "WBS Memorial"

Checking the data about a person, open the "advanced search" tab and try, typing only the last name, then the last name and first name, then the full data. Also try to check the information by setting the parameters of the last name, and the first and patronymic names only by initials.

2. Send your request to the archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

The request must be sent to the address: 142100 Moscow region, Podolsk, Kirov st., 74. "Central archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation".

Include letters in the envelope, in which you clearly state the information you have and state the purpose of the request. Include one blank envelope with your home address as the recipient's address.

3. Check the data on the "People's feat" website

If you do not have information on awards, you can refer to the "People's feat" website. In the "People and Awards" tab, enter the data as requested.

4. Check the parameter information

There are additional methods that can also assist in finding and identifying information about your veteran. The site "Soldat.ru" contains a list of search technologies, we would like to draw your attention to some of them:

• Database of Internet links to school museums of the Russian Federation, which have expositions 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
• Forms of requests for search, evacuation and search of graves through the Tracing and Information Center of the Russian Red Cross (