On this page we have collected resources that will help you find a soldier (deceased relative or friend), search for the dead and missing in the Great Patriotic War.
Volunteer project "Archive Battalion"
Volunteer project "Archive Battalion" for the restoration of information about the participants in the wars of the XX century accepts and processes applications for the study of the combat path of participants in the Great Patriotic War.
Memory of the people
The Memory of the People project was implemented in accordance with the decision of the Russian Organizing Committee Victory of July 2013, supported by the order 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 on the Second World War OBD Memorial and the Feat of the People into one project - the Memory of the People.
The feat of the people
Ministry of Defence 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 the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. As of August 8, 2012, the data bank contains information on 12,670,837 awards.
Generalized databank "Memorial"
The generalized data bank 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: collected and translated into electronic form tens of thousands of documents, with a total volume of more than 10 million sheets. contained in them personal information amounted to more than 20 million records.
Immortal Regiment of Russia
All-Russian public civil-patriotic movement " Immortal Regiment Russia" collects stories about the participants of the Great Patriotic War. The database 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"
The Immortal Regiment - Moscow, together with the My Documents Public Services Centers, collect information about the residents of the capital who took part in the Great Patriotic War. Now there are already more than 193 thousand names in the archive.
"Soldat.ru" - database of those killed in the Second World War
Soldat.ru is the oldest Russian Internet portal for establishing the fate of the 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 feat. The project "Winners" was created for the 60th anniversary of the Victory. Then we managed to collect lists of more than a million veterans living near us.
The site also contains a stunning interactive and animated map of the Great Patriotic War.
Electronic memorial "Remember Pro"
On the social site "RememberPro" each registered user can create a memory page, a photo gallery of a deceased loved one and native 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 those killed 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 Great War, where everyone can leave their comments on any entry, supplement information about the War Participant with photos and memories, 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 already more than 400 thousand names in the archive.
Find a soldier. A reminder for those who are looking for their heroes
1. Check the data on the OBD Memorial website
Verifying the person's data, open the "advanced search" tab and try by 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 surname, and the name and patronymic only with initials.
2. Send a 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, Kirova st., 74. "Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation".
In an envelope, enclose letters in which you clearly state the information you have and state the purpose of the request. Enclose one blank envelope, filling in your home address as the recipient's address.
3. Check the data on the site "Feat of the People"
If you do not have information on awards, you can refer to the website "Feat of the People". In the "People and awards" tab, enter the data as requested.
4. Check the information on the parameters
There are additional ways that can also help you find and identify information about your veteran. The site "Soldat.ru" presents a list of search technologies, we draw your attention to some of them:
- Database of Internet links to school museums of the Russian Federation, in which there are expositions about the combat routes of units and formations of the Soviet Army
- How to establish the fate of a soldier who died or went missing during the Great Patriotic War
- Information on materials held by the tracing service of the International Red Cross
- Request forms for search, evacuation and search of graves through the Center for Tracing and Information of the Russian Red Cross (
in the deputy commander of a motorized rifle battalion of the 90th detachment. tank brigade.
On another site http://pamyat-naroda.ru/ I found a record about my father that he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree in 1985. He fought for a very short time, got to the front in 1944, already in Europe. But he didn’t talk much about the war, I was little, I don’t remember anything, although once he was invited to the school for a Memory Lesson and he told something to our class, but to my shame, I didn’t remember his story, I didn’t take it seriously.
On the website of the Ministry of Defense - https://www.obd-memorial.ru/html/index.html - you can find information about the rank of the deceased, the unit in which he served, the date and cause of death (killed, died of wounds, disappeared missing) and the place of burial. Moreover, the site contains scanned copies of all processed primary source documents containing information about personalities. These documents make it possible to identify the fallen with great accuracy, since they often contain Additional Information, in particular the names and addresses of relatives to whom funerals were sent.
Maybe you will find something on these sites about your relatives.
From here: http://parad-msk.ru/search-soldat/
Volunteer project "Archive Battalion"
Volunteer project "Archive Battalion" for the restoration of information about the participants in the wars of the XX century accepts and processes applications for the study of the combat path of participants in the Great Patriotic War.
Website: myveteran.ru
Immortal Regiment of Russia
The All-Russian public civil-patriotic movement "The Immortal Regiment of Russia" collects stories about the participants of the Great Patriotic War. The database is updated daily. Here you can not only add your veteran soldier to the All-Russian "piggy bank", but also search for existing ones.
Site: polkrf.ru
Electronic memory book "Immortal Regiment - Moscow"
The Immortal Regiment - Moscow, together with the My Documents Public Services Centers, collect information about the residents of the capital who took part in the Great Patriotic War. Now there are already more than 166 thousand names in the archive.
Website: polkmoskva.ru
Memory of the people
The Memory of the People project was implemented in accordance with the decision of the Russian Organizing Committee Victory of July 2013, supported by the order 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 on the Second World War OBD Memorial and the Feat of the People into one project - the Memory of the People.
Website: pamyat-naroda.ru
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 the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. As of August 8, 2012, the data bank contains information on 12,670,837 awards.
Site: podvignaroda.ru
Generalized databank "Memorial"
The generalized data bank 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 converted 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.
Website: obd-memorial.ru
"Soldat.ru" - database of those killed in the Second World War
Soldat.ru is the oldest Russian Internet portal for establishing the fate of the dead and missing servicemen and searching for their loved ones.
Site: soldat.ru
"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 feat. The project "Winners" was created for the 60th anniversary of the Victory. Then we managed to collect lists of more than a million veterans living near us.
The site also contains a stunning interactive and animated map of the Great Patriotic War.
Website: www.pobediteli.ru
Electronic memorial "Remember Pro"
On the “RememberPro” social site, each registered user can create a memory page, a photo gallery of a deceased close and dear person, talk 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 those killed and missing in the Great Patriotic War.
Site: pomnipro.ru
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, supplement information about the War Participant with photos 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.
Site: kremnik.ru
Find a soldier. A reminder for those who are looking for their heroes
1. Check the data on the OBD Memorial website
Verifying the person's data, open the "advanced search" tab and try by 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 surname, and the name and patronymic only with initials.
2. Send a 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, Kirova st., 74. "Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation".
In an envelope, enclose letters in which you clearly state the information you have and state the purpose of the request. Enclose one blank envelope, filling in your home address as the recipient's address.
3. Check the data on the site "Feat of the People"
podvignaroda.mil.ru
If you do not have information on awards, you can refer to the website "Feat of the People". In the "People and awards" tab, enter the data as requested.
4. Check the information on the parameters
There are additional ways that can also help you find and identify information about your veteran. The site "Soldat.ru" presents a list of search technologies, we draw your attention to some of them:
Socio-legal requests to the archives
Database of Internet links to school museums of the Russian Federation, in which there are expositions about the combat routes of units and formations of the Soviet Army
How to establish the fate of a soldier who died or went missing during the Great Patriotic War
Information on materials held by the tracing service of the International Red Cross
Request forms for the search, evacuation and search of graves through the Center for Tracing and Information of the Russian Red Cross (download)
International Red Cross Tracing Service Questionnaire (download)
Questionnaire in TsAMO for the re-registration of a warrior (download)
Questionnaire-request to TsAMO (download)
Medallions of the Red Army and personal identification marks of the Wehrmacht
Medallion Reading Technology dead soldiers using a computer
5. The hero is buried outside the Russian Federation
If you know that your Hero is buried outside the Russian Federation, you need to contact the Russian House of the EU member states yourself, finding the address of the Russian House of the state you need through a search engine (for example, Serbia, the city of Belgrade rukidom.rs) or contact the Russian Embassy in this state to the consular department.
It should be noted that the search for the burial place or the military path of one's grandfather / great-grandfather is a long, sometimes difficult, sometimes expensive business. From the very beginning, you need to tune in to a long painstaking work of collecting information and analyzing it.
However, in general, it is a simple and straightforward process.
Data collection
Specify the surname, name, patronymic, year of birth, place of birth, place of residence before the war, the military registration and enlistment office to which he was called, address of relatives, place of service, military rank, partisanship, if there are letters - find the field mail number in them, if we are looking for a dead or missing person - specify the date of the last known letter.
Read the letters carefully, they may contain important information: about the type of troops, about the military unit, any details of movements.
Type of troops, military unit - regiment, division, army - this information is sometimes the key to finding, for example, burial
Primary Search
The base is unique, there are no analogues in the world. About 14 million sheets of archival documents were scanned and posted. Work on filling the database continues. Therefore, do not be surprised if there is no data for your relative yet.
Here you can find all possible (taking into account the fact that the database is filling up) references to a person: Books of memory, reports of losses, lists of the buried, etc.
The database contains almost all military graves where soldiers and commanders of the Red Army are buried. From Murmansk to Crete.
Additional information can be obtained on the website "Feat of the People". There is information about the awards.
If you know about the awards of a relative, then from the award documents you can find out information about the military unit, place of birth, etc. And, of course, about exploits.
In addition, the "Feat of the People" has a section on the Geography of War. In this section, you can find information about combat way military unit.
If you want to know where your grandfather fought, who lived to see the end of the war, this is the main tool. But only if he was awarded.
Books of Memory
In every area Soviet Union, including in Ukraine, a multi-volume "Book of Memory" was published. The Book contains information about those who did not return from the war. But! Information at the time of the publication of the Book, and the information that the regional commissariat then had. Some of the books have been reprinted.
"Book of Memory" is kept in the district military commissariat. It is necessary to contact at the place of recruitment your relative..
There is an easier way to access the "Book of Memory" - contact the Veterans Council. There, active grandparents will give you the "Book" and give you more tea.
Memory books can also be electronic. Then a link to them must be sought on the websites of the central authorities of the region.
Most of the Memory Books have been digitized and are in the Memorial OBD. In the "Advanced Search" section, a search for these Books is available.
Request to TsAMO
If the previous search did not give the desired results - send by registered mail request to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense - 142100, Moscow region, Podolsk, st. Kirov, house 74.
The request looks like this:
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142100, Podolsk, Moscow Region
Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
QUESTIONNAIRE-INQUIRY
on the search and establishment of the fate of a serviceman
1. Surname, name, patronymic (wanted)
________________________
________________________
________________________
2. Year and place of birth (region, district, village, city) _______________________________
3. Where he lived and worked before the call (indicate the detailed address and name of the institution, enterprise) _________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
4. By what military registration and enlistment office was called, when and to which part he was sent _____________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
5. Military rank ______________________________
6. Type of troops (by conscription and service) _________________________________________________
7. Party membership _________________________________
8. When written communication ceased (year, month, day) _____________________________
9. Address of the military unit at the last place of service (last letter) ___________
10. Who requests (last name, first name, patronymic, family relationship, home address)
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Applicant's signature - _________________
Reception led by __________________________
“______”_________20___
Request in the form of a word file.=============================================================
After some time, you receive an official certificate of the place of burial.
It will say:
1. Killed (indicating the place of burial)
2. Killed (without specifying the place of burial)
3. Died from wounds (indicating the place of burial)
4. Died of wounds (without specifying the place of burial)
5. Missing.
If you know the place of burial, then take one more step:
After receiving an official certificate, write a request to the district military registration and enlistment office of the place of burial (depending on the accuracy of the indication).
Head of the military registration and enlistment office of the Demyansky district of the Novgorod region
We ask you to establish the place of burial _______FULL NAME______, check it according to the passports of burials based on the information we have from
1) Notice of death ____________
2) OBD Memorial (listing of documents) _____________
Copies of documents attached _____________
If there is no data on the full name in the burial passport, please enter the full name in the burial passport and perpetuate his name
Copies do not need to be certified, regular copies are sufficient.
If a specific burial is indicated in the certificate, then you are looking for it using the OBD "Memorial" - Advanced search, Search for burials
If the place of burial is unknown, then we do the following:
Died from wounds
Request to the archive of military medical documents of the Military Medical Museum of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (191180, St. Petersburg, Lazaretny per. 2) and a second request to TsAMO with a request to clarify the location of the hospital for the period of death of the wanted person.
Very often, the passport of military burials (if it is hospital) contains information about the hospital.
If there is any information about the hospital, then - a guide to the deployment of hospitals of the Red Army in 1941-1945.
Killed or missing.
This is where the fun begins. You should be aware of the part in which your grandfather fought. This will be in the certificate from TsAMO or in the unified database "Memorial". Your task is to establish the combat path of the division\brigade\regiment. Not armies, but divisions / brigades / regiments.
If there are letters and they contain a field mail number, then we decrypt this number.
If a part is known, then further - memoirs, maps, reports on hostilities, and so on. You can search TsAMO for reports and orders for a narrow period of time. It is quite realistic, for example, to establish the fate of an individual tank, and from aerial photographs to suggest the place of his death, and after a survey of the local population, to establish a previously unknown grave. But this is jewelry work, and most likely the local search squad can do it.
Burials
Sometimes, the military registration and enlistment office cannot give a complete picture, especially for the battles of 1941-1942. The maximum that they can give in this case is a map of the area's burials. But there could be dozens of them.
Keep in mind that the burials have been enlarged. Consolidation campaigns were held in the country 2-3 times. They are still being carried out now, the main reason is the transport inaccessibility and the impossibility of leaving.
The history of burials can also be traced by the OBD "Memorial". Sometimes, lists of graves are posted on official websites.
It may be that the burial was transferred only on paper. And where it really is - everyone forgot.
The mass grave, created in 1941 and noted in the documents, can simply "dissolve" on the ground during 2 years of occupation. Or it may be that the person you are looking for will be listed in several graves.
Museums.
School and local history. No matter how strange it may seem to someone, but school museums exist and are actively working on specific units and units. Most full list school military history museums located .
Search squads
It is necessary to contact the search team of your district / city, as well as the search team of the area where your relative died / went missing.
On request in Yandex like "Demyansky search squad" usually everything is also found.
If there is no information on the Internet, call the department of youth affairs of the desired area and you will be given all the information available on search teams region.
May 9 - Victory Day over Nazi Germany! The war, which lasted almost 4 years, claimed 26 million lives of our compatriots. There was not a single family in the Soviet Union that did not feel all its horror. The Great Patriotic War took loved ones from almost every person: someone lost their husband, someone lost their son, brother.
After the war, the number of missing people was estimated at about 5 million people. Despite the tremendous work that is still ongoing, at present the fate of many still remains unclear.
Many people do not even know where and when their relative died, where he is buried, and do not have the opportunity to visit his grave. But now, thanks to Internet technologies, you can independently study the secret materials of those times and find information about your loved one.
Where to start searching?
Currently, there are many resources on the Internet with which you can find out information about veterans, their military path or burial places.
You can start from the site obd-memorial.ru- This electronic database data central archive Ministry of Defense (TsAMO), contains a large number of records of the dead soldiers of the Red Army in the Second World War. Here you can find information not only about Russian soldiers, but about all the inhabitants of the USSR who died or disappeared in the war and in the post-war period. Knowing the last name, first name, patronymic and date of birth, you can find where your relative fought.
It must be borne in mind that some data was filled in with errors and was poorly readable, so if you did not find information about your loved one, try changing some letters, for example, if the surname is complex, difficult to pronounce.
Moypolk.ru- is the official website of the Immortal Regiment movement. It contains information not only about the dead and missing, but also those who survived after the war. The base is constantly updated. On the site you can find out where your grandfather fought in the Great Patriotic War by last name, first name and patronymic.
On the site dokst.ru presents the world's largest database of Soviet prisoners of war captured German troops during the Second World War, most of whom died in German captivity. On the site you can see the names and surnames of prisoners of war, date of birth and date of death. These archives help millions of people find out the fate of their dead or missing relatives.
When searching for information about your relative, it is worth remembering that you can often come across full namesakes, so it is very important to collect as much information as possible about where he was born, where he was called up (from front-line photographs you can find out the rank, approximate time, type of military ).
It should also be noted that many names settlements have since changed. To know the exact name of the area, it is better to use historical reference books /
If you have saved letters from the front, you can determine the number of the military unit where the relative served by the field mail number indicated on the envelope. On the site soldat.ru/spravka there is a directory where you can get information on the postal numbers of those years. In the same place on the forum, you can use the advice of experienced search engines on how to find information about where your grandfather fought.
If you managed to figure out military unit, then by the dates indicated on the letters, it is possible to determine the area, sector of the front and the operation in which he took part. Using the information on the website rkka.ru you will be able to restore the detailed combat path of the military unit. This will help you understand how and where your grandfather fought in the Second World War.
If you have information about your relative's awards, check out the site podvignaroda.ru. It contains data on those awarded during the Great Patriotic War.
In the archives of military medical documents in St. Petersburg (Lazaretny lane, building 2) one can find information about the dead, knowing about the wounds received during the war.
In case you could not find any information about where your relative fought in the Second World War, or about his future fate, try contacting the forum of the Russian search movement rf-search.ru. After all, they are still searching for the dead soldiers. Electronic archives are periodically replenished as documents are digitized and new information is obtained.
You can contact the TsAMO branches and personally, collecting as much information as possible about your relative (place of birth, where he was called up, collect all photos, letters).
Happy Victory Day!
How to find your relative - a participant in the Great Patriotic War by last name, how to find out information about his awards, military ranks, military path and place of death? This memo will help you collect the most detailed information about your ancestor, a participant in the Second World War.
1 Organize family archives
Ask relatives and friends, sort through family archives and write down all information which you will recognize. Pay special attention to letters and official documents from the front - the number of the military unit is encrypted in the postal stamp.
The transcript can be found on the site www.soldat.ru
2 Refer to databases
First of all, check the electronic archives:
Enter the veteran's details in the search fields.
If nothing is found - try various options spelling of first name, last name and place of birth.
If the surname is common, use the advanced search and enter additional information.
Check databases regularly- they are constantly updated and new information about your soldier may appear.
Don't be limited to search results that are displayed on top! Read the entire document for more information. If the document is multi-page, open title page- there may be a part number. Knowing the unit number, you can determine the combat path of the unit.
Check out Memory Books- they are stored in military registration and enlistment offices, archives, local history museums. Information about soldiers was entered into books according to three criteria: place of birth, place of conscription and place of burial. If there is no information, contact the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War (Moscow, Pobeda Square, 3, index 121096) - all books published before 1996 are stored there.
3 Send a request to the official archives
- in the register of births (stored in regional archives)
- in the records of acts of civil status (stored in the regional archives or in the departments of the registry office)
- in household books (stored in the archives of district administrations)
- in a personal file (stored at enterprises)
4 Make a request to the military registration and enlistment office
Do written request to the recruiting office- indicate in it all the data about the veteran that you have (full name, year and place of birth, place of conscription, rank, etc.).
If possible, visit the recruiting office in person. Before visiting, be sure to:
- Copy the sheets of draft books containing information about the soldiers called up on the same day as your relative.
- Check all names through the OBD Memorial website (www.obd-memorial.ru)
There is a possibility that they were sent to the same place as your relative.
5 Find out where your relative served
Knowing the unit number (division, battalion, etc.), you will be able to understand exactly where and when your ancestor fought. The battle path can be traced on the website "Memory of the People"
