Memorial of Glory search by surname. Databases for searching information about the participants of the World War II on the Internet

ADVICE (INSTRUCTIONS) on search from Viktor Yuryevich :

HOW TO SEARCH BURIAL PLACES WARRIOR IN OBD MEMORIAL:
1. BY SURNAME.
2. BY REGION, DISTRICT, VILLAGE, VILLAGE.

DATA SEARCH BY SURNAME.
Sign in to OBD Memorial http://www.obd-memorial.ru/
Click on the inscription ADVANCED SEARCH.
Remove ALL "bird" (or "tick") icons from all inscriptions (that is, click on these icons with the left mouse button).
And put this icon only on the inscription "IN THE NAME LISTS OF BURIALS", that is, click on the box next to this inscription with the left mouse button).
In the search box, write the last name, first name, patronymic (try several times, taking into account ALL POSSIBLE DISTORTIONS of his full name and POSSIBLE distortions of the DATE of death (death).
You can type: first only the last name, then try - the last name and date of his death, then - the last name, first name and patronymic ... etc.
And click the SEARCH button.

A list of warrior names will appear.
Click on the name of your relative and a window will open with a sheet on which there will be your relative is highlighted in red. But the text is visible very small. So click on the top left icon 1:1
And the sheet will grow to a large size.
be careful- if you accidentally click directly on the sheet, on any surname written on the sheet, then it will appear in the window.
To prevent this from happening, additionally press the button on which depicted in the form of a PALM (Hand) !!!
Now you can, by pressing the left mouse button, “drag” (move) the sheet of the document in the window wherever you like.
If you click on the inscription "View Burial Details", then the sheet will open as if once again, but a page scroll bar will already appear at the top.
If you click the double icons << or >>, , the first or last page of the list opens.

By pressing single arrows < or > You will move one page at a time.
And so you can read the entire list of the dead.

DATA SEARCH BY REGION, DISTRICT, VILLAGE, VILLAGE.
Login to OBD Memorial http://www.obd-memorial.ru/
Click on the inscription "ADVANCED SEARCH".
Remove the "bird" (or "tick") icons from all inscriptions (that is, click on these icons with the left mouse button).
And put this icon on the inscription "SEARCH FOR BURIALS"(that is, click on the box next to this inscription with the left mouse button).
And then in the search box, write, for example, like this LIOSEN*
ATTENTION! If you type the word “district” in the search box, then the OBD will not give you anything ...
You have to write like this - district or district, although even without this unnecessary inscription, the OBD will find all the burials in the area you specified.
And click the SEARCH button...
And you will see data on 68 military graves in the LIOSNE district of the Vitebsk region.

https://vk.com/club24940507

https://vk.com/topic-68489_21951762?offset=40

Looking for relatives!

position of platoon leader.

B. Smolenskaya, 56).

Svisloch. - available in OBD

Buried in Svisloch.

Further the author of the message Lilia Bogdanova writes here - https://vk.com/topic-24940507_26493739
What nominal search party, I did not really understand.

In social networks, there are also various groups associated with the search.
https://vk.com/club24940507
Today I accidentally stumbled upon a group active in 2009-2011.
There I saw large lists of fighters found with medallions. Among them there are also Smolensk.
I began to look in the OBD - and found only one in the database! Perhaps the information about the search for relatives is still relevant today.
...
Further the author of the message Lilia Bogdanova writes here - https://vk.com/topic-24940507_26493739
What nominal search party, I did not really understand.

Click to reveal...

A lot of people simply duplicate information about the search, not indicating either the location of the "location" of the fighter, or the software to contact.
It turns out a kind of "search in the search", and even more often - a monkey's work: there have already been cases when the search was completed long ago, the fighter was solemnly reburied, and no one updated the information.
Now I try to spread either the information that is posted in the media, or from the search teams themselves.
From time to time I look into the search group in OK to Natalya Kruglova and Tatyana Evgenievna.
But they basically search from the opposite: a fighter has been found, relatives are being sought.
This topic is about the technology of searching for those who went missing or died during the Great Patriotic War

In social networks, there are also various groups associated with the search.
https://vk.com/club24940507
Today I accidentally stumbled upon a group active in 2009-2011.
There I saw large lists of fighters found with medallions. Among them there are also Smolensk.
I began to look in the OBD - and found only one in the database! Perhaps the information about the search for relatives is still relevant today.

I quote from the page VKontakte. https://vk.com/topic-68489_21951762?offset=40

All of these soldiers were found along with the medallions!
Missing in action!!
Looking for relatives!
Zaitsev Petr Yegorovich, Red Army soldier, born in 1918 Native: Smolensk region.
He was buried at the Mound of Glory near Papernya Lake near the town of Ruzhany.

Nashchenko Alexey Afanasyevich, lieutenant. A native of the Smolensk region,
Roslavl. Died of wounds 06/28/1941 Buried in Ruzhany in Russian
cemetery 07/10/1941. According to TsAMO RF, born in 1917 Family address: mother
Nashchenkova K.I., Roslavl. Served in m. Knyshin in 164 ap 2 sd on
position of platoon leader.

Gavrilov Ivan Stefanovich, Red Army soldier, born in 1919 A native of the Smolensk region. Died from wounds
07/01/1941 Buried in the city of Ruzhany at the Russian cemetery 07/02/1941
Perhaps this is Gavrilov Ivan Stepanovich, Red Army soldier, born in 1919. native
Smolensk region, Smolensk district, Korokhotkinsky village council, d.
Muzhilovo. Family address: mother Gavrilova Varvara Ivanovna, Smolenskaya
region, Molotovsky s / council, village Muzhilovo.

Gulikov Alexander Nikolaevich, Red Army soldier, born in 1919 A native of the Smolensk region,
Safonovsky district. Died of wounds on July 2, 1941. He was buried in Ruzhany on
Russian cemetery 07/03/1941

Alexandrov Mikhail Denisovich, Red Army soldier, born in 1921 A native of the Smolensk region, Smolensk district,
Rakityansky s/council, Glushenki village. Died of wounds on July 1, 1941. Buried in
Ruzhany at the Russian cemetery 07/02/1941 (Possibly brother Alexandrov
Nikolai Denisovich, born in 1923 After the war he lived in Roslavl, st.
B. Smolenskaya, 56).

Bolychev Ivan Pavlovich He died of wounds on 07/04/1941. He was buried in Ruzhany at the Russian cemetery on 07/05/1941.
according to TsAMO RF Bolychev Ivan Pavlovich, Red Army soldier, born in 1919 native
Smolensk region, Sychevsky district, Tatarinka village. Family address: mother
Bolycheva Maria Petrovna, Smolensk region, Sychevsky district, Vyazovsky
s/council, village Krivtsovo. Mobilized by the Sychevsky RVC on November 16, 1940. According to this
the fighter was told that all his relatives had already died ...

Aleksandrov Vladimir Andreevich lieutenant, born in 1909 A native of Smolensk
region, Velizh district, Grebaevsky village council. Served in Zambrov in 119
cn 13 sd as commander of a machine gun company. Buried in the city
Svisloch. - available in OBD http://www.obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=3263067

Kosov Pavel Ivanovich, lieutenant, born in 1920 -1922
A native of the city of Smolensk. Mobilized by the Smolensk RVC in 1937. Served at 15
cn 49 sd as commander of the anti-tank battery. Family address: Kosova Hope
Kirillovna, Brest region, Vysokovsky district, Lyutinsky first-aid post.
Buried in Svisloch.

Leksunin Semyon Artemovich, born in 1913
A native of the RSFSR, Smolensk region, Mishchevsky district, Terpilovsky
c / council, village Komarovka. Family address: Leksunin Semyon Artemovich, Smolenskaya
region, Mishchevsky district, Terpilovsky s / council. Reburied from the
Berniki in May 1945 to a mass grave in the village of Novy Dvor.

Further the author of the message Lilia Bogdanova writes here - https://vk.com/topic-24940507_26493739
What nominal search party, I did not really understand.

Click to reveal...

Regarding social networks ... The other day I encountered such a situation - in one of the most popular social networks I come across a post: ".. help identify the fighter's relatives .." etc. The author, a certain search party from Rostov-on-Don with an indistinct name and a non-working link, or rather with a link that sends to a newspaper article about the activities of search parties in general, asks to repost the text as much as possible. I was already on the alert, reminded me of the annoying "... press the class if you have a heart." Moreover, in the data on the kasha fighter, he himself is from Ryazan, relatives allegedly from the Smolensk region. from Kardymov, died from wounds in Rostov, relatives are indicated ... It is not entirely clear why to look for relatives of a soldier officially buried in the Rostov cemetery, and even in such ways. I am writing to the author, offering help, indicating specialized sites, addresses of the local administration, military registration and enlistment office - in response I receive a message, the meaning of which is as follows: it is not possible for us to correspond with anyone, we have a restriction on communication with strangers. Therefore, do not be smart, but do what they ask, the maximum repost in the social. networks.
Everything fell into place here. The data is in the OBD, preferably a sanitary burial, the data is shuffled, so that it would certainly be impossible to find anyone, and mailing is done in groups by last name. In this case, the Kovalevs, can you imagine how many Kovalevs are in the Smolensk region? there is reliability and at the same time it is clear that the data has been changed. After I asked the author for at least some details, he disappeared. ON. I didn’t meet with the name given in the post in any register. Something like that. Previously, fluffy kittens were given a class, now they got to the saint. God forbid that this turns out to be the initial stage of my paranoia. And if not, you can’t call it otherwise than bestiality ..

Independent search for ancestors » Documents about the military and about the participants in the Second World War
This group of documents is one of the most diverse and voluminous. The documents are in different archives, and they can be divided into two periods: before the revolution and after.

Documents about the military of the pre-revolutionary period are stored in the Russian State Military Historical Archive (Moscow, 2nd Baumanskaya, 3). If your ancestor was an officer, then you may be able to find his file. If he was from the category of privates or non-commissioned officers, then in order to find information about him, you need to know the unit in which he served.

If one of your ancestors was an officer, a personal file should have been opened on him. As a general rule, such a personal file should be kept at the last place of registration of the military. It can also be transferred for storage to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense in the city of Podolsk, Moscow Region.

An example from my practice: my friends' ancestors were officers, the last place of registration of which was the city of Smolensk. There were no personal files on them at TsAMO. I called the Smolensk city military enlistment office and found out that their personal files were there. When I arrived there, they were given to me for review upon presentation of a power of attorney (since they were not my relatives).

In the personal file of an officer, one of the most informative documents for a genealogist is an autobiography written by the person himself. In it, the filler indicated where and when he was born, wrote about his parents, brothers, sisters, wife and her relatives. Also in the personal file there are documents on the certification of an officer, on conferring ranks on him, on moving, etc.

In the same Smolensk military enlistment office they explained to me that there are several copies of the officer's personal file. The first copy is the most complete, and it is kept forever in the regional military registration and enlistment office, because. on its basis, a soldier is awarded a pension. The second copy is stored in the district or city military registration and enlistment office for a certain number of years and after that is subject to destruction. In the regional military registration and enlistment office, they do not always meet the needs of unofficial persons and may not allow them to get acquainted with personal files.

In addition to personal affairs, a service record was issued for officers. Such cards form the card index of officers in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. The card contains basic information about the officer: full name, year and place of birth, study, assignment of military ranks, promotions, family information and address. Also in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense there is a file of officer losses. Here are information about the dead and missing officers during the Great Patriotic War.

Important! Not all officers had a personal file and service record. If a person received a rank during the Great Patriotic War and was killed a few months later, they did not have time to get all the necessary documents for him. Therefore, information about him can only remain in the file of losses of officers.

If your ancestors were privates, information about them can be found in the recruiting office and in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. Information about the service after the Great Patriotic War is communicated only to relatives upon request. Documents about the service during the Great Patriotic War are available to researchers.

Conscription documents may be kept at the conscription office, but in each specific case it is necessary to find out whether they have been preserved. Many documents were destroyed after the war or not preserved, perished by fire or water. In our region, all documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War were transferred to the State Archive of Administrative Bodies (GAAOSO) at 34 Lenin Ave. But on the ground, in some district military registration and enlistment offices, file cabinets were made, which remained there.

If your relative was taken prisoner during the Great Patriotic War and remained alive after the end of hostilities, then when crossing the state border he passed through a filtration camp. A filtration case was started against such servicemen. In this case, you can find the main biographical information about the person, the documents that the Germans brought on him, sometimes photographs, fingerprints, where he was in captivity. These cases were sent to the archives of the FSB at the place of birth of a person in the second half of the 40s - early 50s of the 20th century.

Nowadays, filtration cases are mainly stored in the archives of the FSB. In the Penza region, I found such a case in the regional archive (GAPO), in the Sverdlovsk region - in the GAAOSO. The director of the archive of the Penza region told me that once they were looking for a long time for the filtration case of one person who was born in the Far East, moved to another region as a small child, and then moved again. The filtration case was discovered in the Far East. I also had a case when it was thanks to the information in the filtration case that it was possible to establish the exact place of birth of one person.

Information about the service during the Great Patriotic War is stored in TsAMO.

The algorithm for searching for information about missing and dead soldiers in the public organization "Association of search teams" Return "is written in the following article.

Korneva O.V., Suetina E.N.

Archival experience to find the fate of servicemen during the Great Patriotic War
The work of specialists of the Association "Return" in the TsAMO archive began in 1992 with the development of medallions. According to the data from the medallions read, the soldier’s belonging to a military unit, military operations, irretrievable losses of this unit and the address of relatives were established. At the address of relatives, taken from the card file of irretrievable losses of privates and sergeants, the place of residence of the family, the presence of a family and living relatives at the moment were specified. Medallions were handed over to families in a solemn atmosphere by employees of the military registration and enlistment offices or guys from search teams.

In 1994, newspaper publications began to appear about the dead, missing, with requests to establish the fate. The Association of Search Teams of Russia on central television broadcast the lists of found fighters in the program “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten ...” (the results of the Memory Watch). After this program, the Association of Search Teams of Russia was inundated with letters from all over the country. AsPO employees in Moscow sorted them by sender's region and sent them to the regional offices. So bags of letters of request to search for the places of burial of the dead and missing came to us in the Sverdlovsk Association of search teams "Return".

We started working with applications with research in the military registration and enlistment offices at the place of conscription of a serviceman. After that, all the data was entered into a computer and lists were prepared for verification against the card file of irretrievable losses of privates and non-commissioned officers of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. After processing in TsAMO, changes were made to the file cabinets of military commissariats for drafted military personnel. Relatives were informed about the work done, they sent, handed over, handed over information about the place of death of their son, father, grandfather, brother.

Over time, the flow of letters of application to the Sverdlovsk Association increased, the working conditions in the archives changed, as well as the location of the necessary documents. In view of these changes, the following order of work with letters of application is in place.

1. Acceptance of the application.

To start the search, you need to get as much information as possible about the missing soldier from relatives. Therefore, a special application form was developed, which includes several main fields: last name, first name, patronymic, year and place of birth, year and place of conscription, military branch, position, rank, unit number, field mail, fate known to relatives. At the same time, information about the unit number and field mail must be confirmed by copies of surviving letters and documents. Such a confirmation application is necessary, since the data reported from memory by relatives often required viewing a large number of files in the archive and did not give a result.

2. Entering into the database.

All applications are assigned an incoming number and they are entered into the database. At the moment, the database contains information about more than 5 thousand people who are being searched. The presence of an electronic database makes it possible to avoid repeated work with the same servicemen, because applicants, not realizing that the search often requires a lot of time, without receiving a response in a month, write again.

3. Checking the Books of Memory.

If possible, all applications are checked against the Books of Memory of the area from which the soldier was called up. Such a check allows you to establish additional information about him, as well as find out if he is immortalized.

4. Checking on the Joint Database "Memorial".

Literally a year ago, a unique project appeared on the Internet, thanks to which the search for military personnel was greatly simplified and accelerated. By accessing the Internet at the link www.obd-memorial.ru, you can find out what the wanted person is listed in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense. For a successful search in this database, you must keep in mind the following:

- this project is under development, therefore it is periodically updated, and the information contained there is incomplete. Those. it happens that once you type a person, you can not find him, but after a while, he appears there.

- Dial the last name, first name and patronymic should be very careful. If there is an option for another reading of the desired surname, then you must also try it, because. documents during the Great Patriotic War were mainly filled out by ear and by hand, and this allows you to write and read in different ways. So, for example, the surname Kardapoltsev could be written as Kargapoltsev.

- It should be borne in mind that in our large country there were many namesakes, namesakes, and countrymen. Therefore, it is better to check as much additional information as possible: year of birth, place, names of relatives and their address. In my practice, there was a case when everything coincided: last name, first name, patronymic, year and place of birth, conscription, only the patronymics of wives differed.

- You need to pay special attention to the information from the military registration and enlistment offices. As a rule, this information includes only the last name, first name and patronymic, sometimes even the year of birth. This is not always enough to identify the person you are looking for.

- sometimes the right person goes through the database without a name or without a patronymic, only a surname, or a surname with a first name, or a surname with initials.

- when finding the right person, you need to print two sheets. The first one shows the full name and other data typed on the computer, as well as the fund, inventory, case from which the information was taken. On the second sheet there is directly a scan of the document, where the soldier is mentioned. There can be several documents per person. Everything must be printed.

5. Analysis of the collected information.

If the database indicates the place of burial of a serviceman in the documents of TsAMO and the military registration and enlistment office, then we can say that the search is completed, it remains to provide this information to relatives. But this rarely happens. There is an option that only the time and place of death are indicated. Then such applications are postponed in order to make a request to the military registration and enlistment office. These two options refer to the small number of successful finds when the wording “died” is in the file.

A completely different situation is when the documents say "missing." If we manage to find the exact time and place of loss in the documents of the unit in the base, then we try to find information about the military operations of the unit on the specified day. Due to the lack of a clearly developed law on the procedure for perpetuating the memory of soldiers, writing to the military registration and enlistment office of the area where the person went missing makes little sense. Only a few military registration and enlistment offices responded to our requests to perpetuate the missing person. It is possible to establish the approximate area of ​​​​the death of military personnel if the number of the unit in which he served is known. The search for most applications ends with finding information in the archive that their relative went missing at about such and such a time. Searching for any information about a person without knowing the military unit number yields almost no results.

6. Work in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense.

Primary processing according to TsAMO documents consists in checking against file cabinets.

The main file cabinets of TsAMO:

Card file of irretrievable losses of privates and sergeants (9th department).

Card file of irretrievable losses of officers (11 department).

Card file of the political staff (6th department).

Award card index (11 department).

From the established additional data (incoming report number, military unit number, hospital number, etc.), a selection is made and incoming reports are taken, where you can additionally set the number of a military unit, field postal station or field mail. According to the established military unit, documents of this unit are taken: military operations and operational reports, books of accounting for irretrievable losses of personnel of the unit. According to the number of the hospital, his further fate is determined: he died of wounds, where he was buried or was being treated and left for the active army.

The speed of establishing the fate of a fighter depends on the documentation for this fighter. All archival documents of almost all units and formations of the army are collected in one place. But there are a lot of documents and they have not been completely sorted out, file cabinets have not been computerized, many documents have not been declassified. There is manual labor in the entire archive, all materials are on paper, which greatly slows down and makes work difficult. At the expiration of the secrecy period, the documents are declassified and have to be checked again. Often there is a discrepancy between military rank and position. We have to additionally check the fighters according to the file cabinets of officers, political officers, and the award department.

TsAMO is not the only archive that stores documents from the war period.

Information about the service in the ranks of the Red Army from 1918 to 1940 (including the civil war in Russia, the liquidation of the Basmachi, events on the CER (1929), military operations in the area of ​​​​Lake Khasan (1938) and the Khalkhin-Gol River ( 1939), the campaign of the Red Army in Western Belarus, Western Ukraine and the Baltic states (1939 - 1940), the Soviet-Finnish war (1939 - 1940)) are stored in the documentary materials of the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA) - 125212, g .Moscow, st. Admiral Makarov, 29.

Information about the service in the ranks of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War and the war with Japan 1941-1945. are stored in the documentary materials of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (TsAMO) of the Russian Federation - 142100, Podolsk, Moscow Region, st. Kirova, d.74.

Information about service in the ranks of the Navy of the USSR from 1918 to 1940 is in the documentary materials of the Russian State Archive of the Navy (RGAVMF) - 191186, St. Petersburg, st. Millionnaya, 36.

Information about service in the ranks of the Navy of the USSR from 1941 to 1995 (and beyond) is in the documentary materials of the Central Naval Archive (TsVMA) 188350, Gatchina, Leningrad Region, Krasnoarmeisky Prospekt, 2 .

Information about injuries, stay in hospitals and other medical institutions of the Armed Forces of the USSR should be requested from the archives of the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - 191180, St. Petersburg, Lazaretny per., 2.

Information about the service in the bodies of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD - MGB - Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (until 1950) is in the documentary materials of the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA) - 125212, Moscow, st. Admiral Makarov, d.29.

Information about the actual names of the military units of the internal troops and their places of deployment (before 1950) is also found in the documentary materials of the RGVA.

Information about military personnel and employees of internal affairs and security agencies who died or went missing in the performance of operational combat missions, including during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, is stored in:

documentary materials of the RGVA

Department of Personnel of the Federal Security Service of Russia 101000, Moscow, st. Lubyanka, 2

Central, archive of internal troops (TSAVV) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - 107150, Moscow, st. Podbelsky, d. 5

Central Archive of the Federal Border Service (TSAFPS) RV - 1412-00, Pushkino, Moscow Region.

Central Archive of the Ministry of Internal Affairs TO - 101000, Moscow, ud. Myasnitskaya, 1

Information about the service (being) in the partisan movements in 1941-1945. are stored in the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, the documents of which are in the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) - 103821, Moscow, st. B. Dmitrovka, 15.

Information about partisan detachments and underground groups formed by local party and Komsomol bodies in 1941-1945. are in the state archives at the place where the detachment was formed.

Information about the participation in hostilities of individuals in the divisions of the people's militia in Moscow in 1941 is in the documentary materials of the TsAMO RF, the Central Archive of Public Movements of Moscow (TsAODM) 109544, Moscow, st. Mezhdunarodnaya, d. 10 and at the place of formation of the militia formations.

Information about the participation in the hostilities of individuals as part of the divisions of the people's militia of the city of Leningrad in 1941-1942. are in the documentary materials of the TsAMO RF, the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documents of St. Petersburg (TsGAIPD SPB) 193060. St. Petersburg, Smolny St., 1/3 and at the place of formation of the militia formations.

Information about awarding orders of the USSR for merits in the defense of the Fatherland in 1941-1945. (and until 1974) are in TsAMO, TsVMA, State Archive of the Russian Federation - 119817, Moscow, st. B. Pirogovskaya, 17 and in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for state awards - 103012, Moscow, Staraya Square, 2/14.

Information about the awarding of the Orders of the Red Banner and the Red Star (for the period up to 1939) is in the documentary materials of the RGVA (orders for awards, presentations for awards, award lists).

For information, we inform you that the RGVA does not have a numbered record of awards (until 1940).

Information about awarding medals of the USSR for military merit and distinction, including during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, is in the documentary materials of TsAMO, TsVMA, Central Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Central Administration of the FSB, TsAPV, TsAVV and GUM and the RF Ministry of Defense (Main Directorate personnel and military education of the Ministry of Defense of Russia - 103160, Moscow, K - 160).

Information on establishing the ownership of orders (medals) by their numbers (license plates) is in the documentary materials of TsAMO, TsVMA, RGA Navy, Central Administration of the FSB, Central Administration of the Federal Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation.

Information related to the search for military personnel, employees of internal affairs and security agencies who went missing during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. and during other military conflicts are in the documentary funds of TsAMO, TsVMA, RGA VMF, TsA FSB, TsA FPS RF, the International Association "War Memorials" 191021, Moscow, Komsomolsky prospect, 22, and the Scientific and Information Center of Search " Fates" - 121293, Moscow, Bratyev Fonchenko str., 11, room 73.

8. Perpetuation of the memory of the dead and missing servicemen.

When establishing the exact place of death of a soldier, we send a request to the military registration and enlistment office of the district or region in which the soldier died, asking if he is listed with them, and we also write that if he is not listed, then we ask him to be immortalized. Be sure to attach copies of documents from which it is clear where we got the idea that the fighter died in their area. Typically, military registration and enlistment offices respond to such letters within a month or two. They report exactly where the serviceman is buried. If they don't have such a fighter, then on the basis of the documents sent by us, they perpetuate him and write to us about it.

In Belarus, under the Ministry of Defense, the Directorate for Perpetuating the Memory of the Soldiers of the Great Patriotic War has been created. An electronic database of the dead and buried on the territory of Belarus has been created here. Email address [email protected]. Phones: 266-61-04; 266-75-15; 286-80-34, the Office is located in Minsk. You can find the codes in your help desk.

If a serviceman was buried on the territory that now belongs to the "far abroad", then to clarify his place of burial, we contact the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the address: 119160, Moscow, Znamenka 19, be sure to attach copies of the available documents about the place of death of the soldier. This Center compares our data with the file cabinets they have, write a request to another country. Therefore, the answer from them may come in a year or two. To the answer, as a rule, if the burial is confirmed, documents are attached that allow you to get a visa for free to visit the grave.

9. Reply to relatives.

We collect all the information we find together, compose a response to relatives, attach answers from the archive and data from the Internet. The very process of comprehending the collected information and compiling a response takes time, so there is usually a significant time gap between the answers from the archives and the communication of the result to relatives. If there is interesting information about the fate of a serviceman, then the results of our work can be presented at solemn events. Also, all answers are published on the website www.okorneva.ru in the “Restored Fates” section.

I will add to this article that thanks to the www.obd-memorial.ru project, it became possible for the genealogist to find the year or place of birth of his ancestors, about which he had very vague information. Also, by typing the last name and search region in the database, you can find information about dead relatives, already forgotten even in family legends. If you find information about the brothers of your direct relative in the database, you can establish his place of birth (which living relatives may not remember or not know when questioned), and thus move further in research into the past of their ancestors.