Thanks to the development of information technology, almost every Russian citizen has the opportunity to find a participant in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 by name. There are special resources to help locate missing soldiers and healthy veterans.
Instruction manual
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Try to find a participant in the Great Patriotic War by last name using one of the thematic sites, links to which are located below. To begin with, you can simply study the documents and excerpts posted here from various archives with data on the dead and missing during the war, as well as the fate of those who were able to survive.
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Perform a more detailed search using a special electronic form. Indicate in the appropriate fields the name, surname and patronymic of the participant of the Second World War. If you know additional information, for example, years of service and rank, the soldier has orders and medals, indicate them too. Even if the initial searches are unsuccessful, do not despair. Databases on such sites are periodically updated. In addition, try searching for information about a person using Internet search engines (Google, Yandex, etc.). It is enough to enter the name and surname of the veteran, as well as any additional information to get links to sites with information about him.
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You can try to find a participant in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 by last name through the consolidated database "Memorial" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, available on his website (link is below). There is also a questionnaire to fill out data about the warrior. As a result, you will be able to find out information about the fate of the soldier, taken from the surviving copies of "Reports of Irrevocable Losses." Any information obtained may be useful in further searches.
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Contact the military registration and enlistment office at the place of appeal of the participant of the Great Patriotic War to find him by name and surname. Write a statement asking for information about the soldier, indicating your degree of kinship and all the data known about him. After that, expect a response from the military commissariat.
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If the search still does not yield positive results, contact the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, which is located in the city of Podolsk. It is enough to send a letter to the address of the institution with a request to provide information about the missing participant in the Great Patriotic War. After a while, you should receive an answer with information about the burial place of the soldier or his current place of residence, if the veteran is in good health.
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If you receive such an answer as “Died from wounds” or “Died in captivity” without accompanying information, you can write a letter to the FSB and request information about the person from the archives or to the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation located in St. Petersburg.
- http://obd-memorial.ru/html/index.html
- http://soldat.ru/
- http://archive.mil.ru/
- List of all participants in the 1941-1945 archives by last name
- Memory of the people, website: search by the name of the participants of the Second World War
