The Great Patriotic War affected almost every home. One family was lucky, and their family returned home. Others received news of the death of relatives. But many people are still looking for relatives who disappeared in the war.
Instruction manual
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A huge number of people are engaged in the search for people who disappeared in the Great Patriotic War. These are the creators of Internet portals, youth clubs, employees of specialized television and radio programs. There are less and less nameless graves, more and more relatives of Soviet soldiers learn about their fate.
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The most affordable way to get information about your relatives who have not returned from the battlefield is to go to the appropriate sites. The portals http://veterany.org , obd-memorial.ru, soldat.ru and others contain data and documents about the missing and dead in World War II and subsequent conflicts.
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To find the missing person using these portals, registration is not needed. Just enter the last name, first name, middle name and date of birth. If you know the title and years of service, mark this in the search bar. The more authentication information you enter, the more likely a positive result is. Information for these sites is obtained by volunteers involved in excavations at battlefields. The database is constantly updated, so check the lists of missing once or twice a month.
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If you can’t find the missing one yourself, contact the "Wait for me" program. This is a unique international project. The program employees carry out searches not only throughout the former Soviet Union, but also in other countries of the world. To start the search for your relative, fill out the form on the website www.poisk.vid.ru . In it, as much as possible indicate the signs of the missing person. If the photo was saved, add it to the description. Searches will begin immediately. Every week, with the help of the “Wait for me” show, about sixty people are searched. Thirty percent of those found were soldiers and officers who did not return from battlefields.
Useful advice
Register and fill out forms on all sites that search for missing people. There comes information from various sources. It is possible that you will not find information about your loved ones in the database of one portal. But in another there will be a detailed certificate of his whereabouts.
