OBD "Memorial" is a generalized electronic information bank that contains information about Soviet soldiers killed, deceased and missing during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period. The Memorial OBD was created by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the technical part was implemented by the Electronic Archive Corporation.
To date, the data archive contains about 37 million records from documents (of which - 16.6 million digital copies of documents on irretrievable losses during the Great Patriotic War from 47.8 thousand archival files of TsAMO RF, TsVMA, RGVA, GA RF, regional archives of the Russian Archives, regional military registration and enlistment offices and 45.3 thousand passports of military graves) and more than 11 million entries from the Book of Memory.
The main goal of the project is to enable millions of citizens to determine the fate or find information about their dead or missing relatives and friends, and determine the place of their burial. During the creation of the Memorial OBD, funds 58 and 33 (“Reports of combat units on irretrievable losses” and a card file for recording Soviet prisoners of war), stored in the Central Academy of Medical Sciences of Russia, were processed, as well as documents from the “Grave Passports” fund, stored in the VIC of the Russian Armed Forces.
The main array of processed documents consists of:
- reports from combat units about irretrievable losses,
- other archival documents clarifying losses (funerals, documents of hospitals and medical sanitary battalions (medical battalions), captured cards of Soviet prisoners of war, etc.),
- passports of burials of Soviet soldiers and commanders (officers).
Each entry in the Memorial ODB contains the last name, first name, patronymic, date of birth, date of retirement and place of birth of the serviceman. Moreover, the resource contains scanned copies of all source documents containing information about persons. They often contain additional information, including the names and addresses of relatives to whom the funeral was sent.
From January 28, 2010, access to some information about personalities was limited due to the entry into force of Federal Laws of June 27, 2006 No. 152-FZ “On Personal Data” (as amended, Article 9 and Article 19), and also dated October 22, 2004 No. 125-FZ “On archiving in the Russian Federation” (as amended by Article 25). As reported on the WDS website, information that can serve as a reason to belittle the personal dignity, honor and reputation of soldiers (about people who went over to the side of the German troops, about those convicted by a military tribunal, etc.). was replaced by general wording (“sent to the front line” and another reason for departure or death), and access to viewing electronic copies of documents was also limited, on which, in addition to the specifically wanted soldier, you can see information on other people with the above reasons for departure.
Website: obd-memorial.ru “Soldat.ru” - database of those killed in the Second World War Soldat.ru - the oldest portal on the Russian Internet for establishing the fate of dead and missing military personnel and searching for their loved ones. Website: soldat.ru “Winners” - Soldiers of the Great War With our project we want to thank by name the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War living next to us and tell about their feat. The “Winners” project 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 fighting of the Great Patriotic War.
Www.obd-memorial.ru search by last name: find lists
The main goal of the project is to enable millions of citizens to determine the fate or find information about their dead or missing relatives and friends, and determine the place of their burial. The rear of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (the Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces) carried out work that was unique in scale, technology and timing, as a result of which an information and reference system of global importance was created, which has no analogues in world practice.
The implementation of the technical part of the project - the creation and content of the OBD Memorial website (www.obd-memorial.ru) was entrusted to a specialized organization - the ELAR Corporation.
Memorial website of the Ministry of Defense search by last name - search for WWII participants
Website: polkrf.ru Electronic book of memory “Immortal Regiment - Moscow” “Immortal Regiment - Moscow” together with the Public Service Centers “My Documents” collect information about 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 Victory Organizing Committee of July 2013, supported by the order of the President and the Resolution of the Government of Russia in 2014.
The project provides for the publication on the Internet of archival documents and documents about 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 about the Second World War OBD Memorial and Feat of the People into one project - Memory of the People.
About the project “Feat of the People”
Attention
Feedback". After which you will be taken to a new page on the site where you can ask a question. To ask your question, you also need to provide the following personal information: full name, email address, city and region, place of work, position.
After filling out the necessary personal information, you can start writing a question, and you also need to select the topic of the question. Online consultation The answer to your question will be processed for some time, and after processing you will receive it at the specified email address. The curator of the Memorial project is the Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for perpetuating the memory of those killed in defense of the Fatherland. The most important goal of this project is to give the opportunity for millions of citizens to determine the fate or find information about their dead or missing relatives and friends, and determine the place of their burial.
Find a soldier
After filling out the above information, click on the “Search” button. You can search on the Memorial website of the Ministry of Defense only by the last name of the missing person. Next, the computer will look for matches between your entered data and the Memorial website database.
Important
After the search, the computer will give you the results. Based on the search result, you can find out the following information about the person you are looking for: place of birth, date and place of conscription, last place of service, military rank, reason for departure, date of departure, primary burial place.
Search results If nothing was found for your request, then use the advanced search. With its help, you can set more parameters for the search, and thereby increase the likelihood of a positive search result.
Obd "memorial" - search
It is for this purpose that the OBD Memorial website was created: so that people can find WWII participants by last name, in order to find their relatives and ancestors who died during that difficult time. We will tell you how to search by last name on the website http://www.obd-memorial.ru! To find a WWII participant on the website www.obd-memorial.ru by last name you need to:
- Go to the website http://www.obd-memorial.ru;
- Enter the person’s last name, first name, patronymic;
- You can also enter your year of birth and rank;
- Click on the “Search” button;
- The service will provide all available information about the dead or missing;
In addition, if you know more information about a person, for example, military unit number, military rank, years of enlistment, and so on, you can use a more detailed search by clicking on the “Advanced Search” tab.
How to look for the burial places of a warrior in the obd memorial
On this page we have collected resources that will help you find a soldier (deceased relative or friend), search for those killed and missing in the Great Patriotic War. Volunteer project “Archive Battalion” The volunteer project “Archive Battalion” to restore information about participants in the wars of the 20th century accepts and processes applications to study the combat path of participants in the Great Patriotic War.
Website: myveteran.ru Immortal Regiment of Russia The all-Russian public civil-patriotic movement “Immortal Regiment of Russia” collects stories about participants in 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.
Missing in action during the Great Patriotic War. 5 search steps
Thanks to the Memorial project, relatives and friends can put new names of fallen soldiers and officers on the monuments and thereby restore the memory of the feats of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers. Currently, thanks to the digitization of documents, they have been able to restore the names of 1 million military prisoners of fascist camps. However, according to German data, the total number of Soviet citizens in captivity exceeded 5 million. This means that more than 4 million names have been forgotten and erased from history. The Memorial project has been operating for 10 years. During this time, he restored the name and memory of many lost in the war. Today, the project continues to function according to the slogan: “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.” Online consultants are available on the Memorial website on weekdays from 9:00 to 18:00 Moscow time, by contacting whom you can Get answers to your questions about the site.
In this case, at least one word of the phrase must contain at least two characters. For example, if you enter the expression “1052 sp” in the full-text search field, you will find 30 records.
If you want to enter an exact date into a full-text search string, it must be enclosed in quotation marks (for example, “02/20/1910” or “03/14/1942”), otherwise the period will be perceived as a word separator and you may end up with many extra records in the selection . When entering a query, quotes are not used in the fields. The exact occurrence is found using the Exact phrase mode.
Plus + Plus is used only when filling out fields in full-text search mode. If you enter two words into one field in this mode, then, unlike a query in the full-text search line, the selection will include records in which the value of this field contains at least one of the specified words.
Obd memorial advanced search for WWII participants by last name
During an advanced search, it is possible to set the following search parameters: full name, surname in Latin, date of birth, place of birth, date and place of enlistment, last place of service, military rank, camp number, date of departure, country of burial, region of burial, place of burial, place of departure, hospital from where he was reburied, place of capture, date of death. It is also possible to specify the lists in which to search first. Advanced search On the memorial site If you still couldn’t find anyone, then don’t despair. The site database is updated annually with new entries. In 2015 alone, 250 thousand documents clarifying losses were processed, of which over 3 million personal records were entered; The places of departure of soldiers who died on the battlefields have been published.
Memorial of the Ministry of Defense The Memorial website was developed in 2007 on the initiative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Today, the Memorial ODB archive contains about 17 million digital copies of documents on irretrievable losses, as well as about 20 million personal records about the losses of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War.
The primary burial places of more than 5 million soldiers and officers have been made public. If you need to find your relatives who were participants in the Great Patriotic War, then use the Memorial website. To do this, you will need to go to the following Internet address: www.obd-memorial.ru. On the main page of the site, you have the opportunity to “Set the destinies” of a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
Establish fate To do this, you will need to indicate the following information about the wanted person: last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, rank.
Information technology opens up enormous opportunities for us. Now we can find a person via the Internet without leaving home. Some people use this chance to find out at least something about the participants in the war of 1941-1945. After all, how many destinies were then lost, missing. Today, relatives are trying to restore information and find out the details of what happened. Previously, it was very difficult to find a veteran of the Patriotic War by last name or other information, but now it is quite possible. There are many electronic resources and databases for this. We will write about them below.
Where can I find information about participants in World War II?
Get ready for a difficult task to solve. Below we list the largest electronic resources, created with government support and central archives:
- “Memorial” is a project that is a generalized repository. There are more than 33 million records about the fate of soldiers and burial places. A search on the site is carried out both by a person’s last name and by any other indicators. You can indicate your year of birth, place or rank. You can additionally use the " Advanced Search" By default, the system will work with summary records compiled for each person from available documents;
- “Memory of the People” is another project dedicated to the heroes of the Second World War. To search, you need to enter your full name in the line located at the top of the page " Heroes of War" You can also use the following points: “ Combat operations», « Military graves», « Parts documents" In them you can see the addresses of burial places and the names of fallen soldiers, material about military operations, the fate of its participants, etc.
Both sites are easy to use. A colossal number of unique documents are stored here in electronic form, which are not found anywhere else.
Search for WWII veterans by awards
The electronic archive “Feat of the People” contains information about more than 6 million awards issued for the capture, defense, and liberation of cities and territories.
You can search both by full name and by dates and names of orders. And if you have any documents in your hands, you can enter text from them into the appropriate fields using the button “ Advanced Search" Then the resource will issue all award sheets and orders in which this set of proposals appears.
You can also use the portal “About Awards.ru”. It contains more than 20 million awards records.
List of military archives and departments
There is an option to go directly to military storage facilities and departments and inquire there:
In addition, projects on which you can read old wartime newspapers. They often posted texts with photographs about the achievements of our troops at the front, in order to raise patriotism among the people, and listed the names of heroes and leaders:
You may have to spend a lot of time, but the more resources you visit, the more applications you leave, the more likely you will be successful.
How to find those killed or missing in the war of 1941-1945?
Here we list resources where you can find out about the fate of people left on the battlefields:
- Project "Archive Battalion" created with the aim of restoring information about participants in the wars of the 20th century. You can leave a request on the website with a request to conduct research on the exploits of your hero, where and how he fought and died. It is also possible to contact the office directly to the employees. The address is here;
- Book of memory "Immortal Regiment". The platform allows you to obtain information about Muscovites, both those who returned home and those who died;
- Electronic memorial “Remember About” is a social site for those who are trying to preserve the memory of relatives and friends who participated in the Second World War. You can create a page in memory of a veteran here, tell his story, publish photographs and documents. And also do a search;
- On site
The resource “Memory of the People” was created so that each user could find out where they fought and what awards their grandfathers or great-grandfathers who took part in the Great Patriotic War received. As part of the project, archival documentation such as award lists, orders, operational descriptions of the situation on the battlefield and other original written evidence of the events of those years were transferred into digital form. The site allows each user to find information about their relatives and create a personal archive from documents presented on the site. And, if you want to find out how to use the “Memory of the People” resource to search for WWII participants by the last names of those who returned from the war, then read on.
Project "Memory of the People"
To start the search, open https://pamyat-naroda.ru/, enter the “War Heroes” section, or use the form on the main page (in this case, we will still be automatically transferred to “War Heroes”). Enter the requested data (last name, first name, patronymic and year of birth) into the search bar of the People's Memory service and press the Enter key on the keyboard or LMB on the word “Find”.
Search for a fighter from the main page of the site If there is not enough data and it was not possible to find a participant in the hostilities, click “Clarify” and enter the information that we know:
- The place where the fighter was born.
- Assigned title.
- Place of service.
- The date when the participant left the unit or died.
- Database entry ID.
If this information is not enough, expand additional fields under the data entry form and fill each line with information known to us.
Enter additional information In our case, only 4 documents were found. But it happens that the personal data of WWII participants coincides, and the search becomes difficult. Or there are a lot of documents, among which it is difficult to find what you need. To simplify the search, there is a panel located above the results.
The refinement panel makes searching easier If we need information about which unit was commanded by the WWII participant we are looking for, or what awards he had, then click on the desired section in the above panel and narrow the search range. When switching between these sections, on the right in the “Information Sources” block, the places where information about awards or combat activities of a WWII participant are obtained are displayed. Below the search results is a list of all the awards for which the fighter is nominated.
View and save documents
So, the search has been completed, and we have several of the results we need from the People’s Memory service. How to save them so as not to lose valuable information and always have access to it? Opposite each document there are icons with which you can:
- View original.
- Download the file to your computer (scanned copy of an act, order or other document in jpg format).
- Add information about the participant in hostilities to your personal archive on the “Memory of the People” website.
What can you do with documents? If the load on the resource is too high, access to the personal archive and documents stored in it may be limited. Therefore, if information about a WWII participant is necessary for study or work, it is better to save it in a folder on your computer.
Detailed information about the war heroes on the People's Memory website
Now let’s see where on the “Memory of the People” resource there is more detailed information about the war hero found by last name. Click on the personal data of the WWII participant. A page opens where the last name, first name, patronymic and rank of the fighter are indicated.
Award Details
Also here is information about the award that we selected in the search results: who awarded, when the feat was accomplished, information about the place of birth and call of the hero and other data, including the name of the archive from which this data was taken. Scrolling down the page, we see a scanned document. This is a line on the award list.
Switching between sections, we read:
- “Feat” is a detailed description of the feat for which the fighter was nominated for an award, contained in a combat journal or other documents that reflected the course of military operations.
- “The first page of an order or decree” - information about the front and combat unit in which the WWII participant served, as well as on behalf of whom and for what he was awarded.
- “Award sheet” is a document indicating the presentation of an award, with the fighter’s personal data and a brief summary of the feat.
Line in the award list Documents from this page can be saved to your computer, scaled in height and/or width, and enlarged/reduced. It is also possible to view the originals of the submitted documents.
Combat path of the hero/unit
The “Memory of the People” resource allows us to track the combat path traveled by the hero and the unit in which he served. To do this, from the “Awarding Documents” section, go to “The Combat Path of the Hero/Unit.”
Combat path of the hero/unit This page lists all the units in which the soldier served. Switching between them, we see his path and all the military actions in which he participated during the Second World War. Each of the coordinates of the military path means a specific battle. On the left in the table are the dates of operations linked to coordinates on the map.
The military path is shown from the very beginning (from the place of conscription at the regional military registration and enlistment office) to the victorious end. The scale of the map can be increased so that the outlines of the villages where battles took place or near which our army followed will be visible. This effect allows you to examine the course of the war in detail. There are symbols below the map. Based on them, we understand at what time the fighter we are looking for was in the hospital, received awards, where he was born, where he was drafted from, and much more. Also in the panel above the map you can add a higher part, which included the formation where the war hero served, and a lower part. All these nuances make it possible to recreate a more complete picture of the events of the Second World War.
When you click on a specific path coordinate in the upper right corner of the map, we see a sign that contains the following information:
- The name of the unit where the soldier served.
- Date of the battle indicated on the map.
- The number of documents indicating this event.
Description of the battle at the selected coordinate After clicking on the number of unit documents found, the next page with written evidence of specific battles is loaded. When searching for the desired order/report/report, you can use the general list or narrow your search by switching between section names. That is, if we only need combat logs or maps/diagrams, then we click on the selected category and look for the document that is needed, or look through everything one by one in the Memory of the People. You can also use the convenient filter located to the right of the list of documents. By unchecking or checking the boxes in the sections we need, we narrow our search and find information faster.
By clicking on the name of a report or diagram, journal or order, we study the original evidence of those events, written or drawn by the participants in the war themselves. Based on available information, we will find out in which archive each of the documents is now located, and who compiled them. From this page you can save to your personal archive on the website the found written evidence of the combat path of a WWII participant by the name of those who returned from the war.
Thus, by searching on the “Memory of the People” website for WWII participants by the names of those who returned from the war, you can not only obtain information about the hero’s awards, but also track the progress of battles as fully as possible (as far as available documents allow) from the very place where the soldier was called up.
Write in the comments below the article if you need more information. Many people view them and can help you find the information you need.
Instructions for finding information about soldiers who did not return from the front.
Every May 9th the “Immortal Regiment” is held. I would also like to participate, but I know almost nothing about my front-line relatives. Where to look for information?
More than 6.3 million soldiers died in the Great Patriotic War, and 4.5 million were missing. The fate of the dead and missing is not known to every family. The reasons for this can be completely different. But, fortunately, today this information can be found out, even if no documents or photographs of the soldier have been preserved. Most of the archival files from the period of the Great Patriotic War have already been digitized and stored in public databases on the Internet. With their help, you can trace the soldier’s combat path, learn about his injuries, awards, place and circumstances of death, and burial place.
My husband’s mother’s father was drafted to the front in July 1941 and died in one of the first battles,” shared Valentina Rogacheva, a journalist for the Svoykirovsky portal. - Mother received a funeral - “Dead.” But there was no burial place or any information at all. Then the village where my mother-in-law’s family lived was burned by the Germans during the retreat, and there was no information left about her father at all: no photographs, no documents - everything was burned. All her life she dreamed of learning at least something about her father. And so, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Victory, I learned in the news that the data of soldiers of the Great Patriotic War was being digitized. We started looking for information on the Internet. All we knew was his full name, year of birth and year of enlistment. In one of the public databases they found him in the lists of those buried in a mass grave on the territory of Belarus and a note stating that he died in battle. And although the place of burial is not entirely clear, it is now at least clear that he died not in captivity, but in battle, that he was buried, albeit in a mass grave.
So, all you need to know for the first stage of the search is the last name, first name and patronymic of the deceased or missing person, his date and place of birth. This can be found out from relatives. It is also advisable to know where the soldier was drafted.
What databases can you use?
There are four main databases with documents digitized from archives, which are constantly updated:
- . A generalized database of dead and missing people during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period. The personal information they contain amounts to more than 20 million records;
- . The data bank contains 12.5 million records of awards of orders and medals “For Courage” (awarded to about 4.6 million people) and “For Military Merit” (awarded to more than 5.2 million people), as well as 22 million cards from the award card index and card indexes of awards of the Order of the Patriotic War, I and II degrees, for the 40th anniversary of the Victory;
- . The portal was created by the Ministry of Defense by decision of the Russian Pobeda organizing committee. It summarizes the data banks “Memorial” and “Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945.” Here you can view historical maps and combat logs;
- - website of the all-Russian movement “Immortal Regiment”. Users independently upload data about their front-line relatives. At the moment, the Immortal Regiment database contains more than 400 thousand entries.
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However, there are a few things to keep in mind. Firstly, the soldier’s name may have been written down incorrectly when joining the front (for example, Snigirev instead of Snegirev, Kiril instead of Kirill), the same goes for his date of birth (some conscripts themselves asked to change their age in order to get to the front). So if you can’t find a person by exact full name and date of birth, you can try to write the last name as it would be perceived by ear, and change the year of birth by a couple of years, up or down. Secondly, if you are looking for information on the place of conscription or birth, you need to remember that the administrative-territorial division of the regions of the RSFSR has changed. For example, Oparinsky, Lalsky and Podosinovsky districts were included in the Kirov region only in 1941, and before that they belonged to the Arkhangelsk region. You can check the administrative division on the website, and you can learn more about the intricacies of database searches.
In addition to databases on the Internet, there are also Books of Memory. These are large printed publications in several volumes, in which those killed during the Great Patriotic War are listed by name (alphabetically). There are such Books in every region: in Kirov you can ask for them in the Herzen Library. It may also be that your relative’s name is not in any of the databases or in the Book of Memory. In this case, you can try sending the official one by mail (!) to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. But to do this, you need to know more accurate information about the deceased (for example, in which unit he served) and you will have to wait about six months for an answer.By the way, in rare cases you can also find letters from the front. For example, on websites and or in the digitized “Letters from the Front” (must be viewed manually). But you will have to search by last name and initials.
What if a soldier goes missing?
The count of missing people during the Great Patriotic War is still ongoing. Various researchers put the figure from 4 to 7 million people. It is difficult to determine the exact number, since in front-line reports the missing were sometimes combined with prisoners or included in lists with the total number of losses. About 500 thousand people were mobilized in the first days of the war, but were not included in the lists of troops. Some families received neither letters from the front nor “funeral” messages.
Information about the missing person can also be stored in one of the open databases. First of all, this is the same Memorial OBD. If you have information that a soldier was captured, try typing his first and last name in Latin letters (Ivan Petrov). In addition, there is a separate electronic database of prisoners of war - Saxon Memorials.Those captured by Germans are listed alphabetically. If the German camp in which the prisoner of war was held was liberated by Soviet troops, after the end of the war such a person could end up in the NKVD inspection and filtration camp. Alas, the electronic database of PFL prisoners is only available for natives of the Perm region. You can try to find filtration and verification files and captured German cards through the State Archive of the Kirov Region
Search teams can also help in finding information about missing persons. Since 1989, “Memory Watches” have been held in regions where military operations took place, during which search engines raise fallen soldiers, identify them, and then search for relatives throughout the country. Some people keep documents that help identify a person, in rare cases - letters to relatives or personal items with a signature (for example, a spoon). But, as a rule, it is possible to identify a person by a soldier’s medallion - a small metal capsule into which a piece of paper with the soldier’s data was inserted.
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It indicated the name, military rank, year and place of birth, place of mobilization and family address. An archive of records from all found medallions can be found on the Internet: they are recorded in special books - “Names from Soldiers’ Medallions”, which are published on the Russian Search Movement. By looking for a familiar name in the lists, you can find out when, where and by whom the fighter was found. If the record contains information that the relatives of the deceased have been found, you can request their contacts from the search team. You can also search for information by the fighter's last name.
And now briefly:
1. We find out from the relatives of the deceased his full name, place and date of birth, as well as the year and place of conscription.
2. We look for information in databases. First of all, through the Memorial OBD. We try to type the name with errors: the way they are perceived by ear.
3. We are looking for additional information: we find out the soldier’s combat path and awards on the “Memory of the People” website.
4. We are looking for digitized or decrypted front-line letters on the Internet by the name of the soldier.
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