If you need to establish a duty station for a relative who died during the war, immediately set yourself up for laborious work. Do not think that someone will just tell you all the information that interests you. If some information has been preserved, then it will have to be searched in many archives, and this search will drag on for years.
Instruction manual
1
Find out the number of the part in which the person you need served at least a short period of time, the date of his death.
2
If your family saved the letters - try to determine the field mail number by which you can find out the name of the unit (for this you can use the "Directory of Field Post Stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945").
3
You can try to search for information about the person you need on the Internet. A small number of databases are available on the network that search by last name. For example, http://poiskludei.mirtesen.ru. This service is paid, so carefully read the terms of payment at the bottom of the site.
4
Check out the so-called Memory Books (they are in most regions and contain information about the dead or missing inhabitants of a certain area). If you are unable to study the books you need, contact the military forum http://forum.9maya.ru with a request to check the book you need.
5
Write to the editorial office of the Zvezda television channel, which broadcasts "Looking for the missing soldiers." The website of the program is http://zvezdanews.ru, phone (495) 645-92-89.
6
Submit a request to the archive, indicating all the information that you have. There are several possible answers: a message about the death (the place is indicated date and death, part number, rank, burial place); Report of missing persons (indicated part number, place and date of loss); reporting missing with incomplete information; message about the lack of information.
7
If the answer from the archive is no, then continue the search at the military registration and enlistment office at the place of the call. There you must leave a statement with all the known information. If you manage to find out the part number, then your searches will continue in the archive. If you're lucky, you'll find information about the person you have been looking for for so long.
