My memorial search for those killed in WWII. Databases for searching information about WWII participants on the Internet. General provisions on public offer

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.

Searching for information about participants in the Great Patriotic War on the Internet.

The well-known Memorial database does not always provide information (as, for example, with my relatives). Search in other databases.

Database

www.podvignaroda.ru - a publicly accessible electronic bank of documents about recipients and awards during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

www.obd-memorial.ru - a generalized data bank about defenders of the Fatherland, those killed and missing during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period

www.pamyat-naroda.ru - a publicly accessible data bank about the fate of participants in the Great Patriotic War. Search for primary burial places and documents about awards, service, victories and hardships on the battlefields

www.moypolk.ru - information about participants in the Great Patriotic War, including home front workers - living, dead, dead and missing. Collected and replenished by participants in the all-Russian action "Immortal Regiment"

www.polk.ru - information about Soviet and Russian soldiers missing in action in the wars of the 20th century (including the pages “The Great Patriotic War” and “Undelivered Awards”).

www.permgani.ru - a database on the website of the Perm State Archive of Contemporary History, which includes basic biographical information on former Red Army soldiers (natives of the Perm region or called up for military service from the Kama region), who were surrounded during the Great Patriotic War and (or) captured by the enemy, and after returning to their homeland they underwent a special state check (filtration).

Books of memory

http://rf-poisk.ru - electronic version of the book "Names from Soldiers' Medallions", volumes 1-6. Contains alphabetical information about those killed during the war, whose remains, discovered during search operations, were identified.

http://soldat.ru - books of memory (for individual regions, types of troops, individual units and formations, about those who died in captivity, died in Afghanistan, Chechnya).

Directories

http://soldat.ru - a set of reference books for independently searching for information about the fate of military personnel (including a directory of field postal stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945, a directory of the code names of military units (institutions) in 1939 - 1943, a directory of the location of Red Army hospitals in 1941-1945)

www.rkka.ru - a directory of military abbreviations (as well as regulations, manuals, directives, orders and personal documents of wartime).

Libraries

www.rkka.ru - description of military operations of the Second World War, post-war analysis of the events of the Second World War, military memoirs.

Military cards

Search Engine Sites

Memorial

Thanks to the document, you can find out when and where the WWII participant died, as well as the primary burial place and the place of reburial (if there is one).

Memory of the People

If your relative is listed as missing, you can search for information about his fate in the database of Soviet prisoners of war by Nazi Germany.

What I was able to find: by searching on Google “Myshbor station war” I was able to find information that Mikhail Vasilyevich Batukhtin fell in battle with German bombers on August 16, 1942 near the Myshbor railway station. From report No. 24967 on irretrievable losses dated September 22, 1942, we learn that 8 soldiers were killed during the bombing. All of them, including my great-grandfather, were buried here. Unfortunately, the mass grave could not be found on the Internet.

Maria Batukhtina

In the database of the Memorial Ministry you can find information about the rank of the person killed in World War II, the unit in which he served, the date and cause of death (killed, died of wounds, missing) and place of burial.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has created a Generalized Computer Data Bank containing information about the defenders of the Fatherland who died and disappeared during the Great Patriotic War, as well as in the post-war period (OBD Memorial).

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 Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out work that was unique in scale, technology and deadlines, as a result of which an information and reference system of global significance was created.

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 Electronic Archive Corporation.

The data for filling the Generalized Data Bank is taken from official archival documents stored in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and in the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The main body of documents are reports from combat units about irretrievable losses, other archival documents clarifying losses (funerals, documents from hospitals and medical battalions, captured cards of Soviet prisoners of war, etc.), as well as passports of burials of Soviet soldiers and officers.

On the website 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, missing) and place of burial. Moreover, the site contains scanned copies of all processed source documents containing information about personalities. These documents make it possible to identify the fallen with great accuracy, as they often contain additional information, such as the names and addresses of relatives to whom the burials were sent.

Scanned and made available online as part of the project about 10 million sheets of archival documents and over 30 thousand passports of military graves . For the first time, you will be able to familiarize yourself with real documents and conduct your own search and research.

Today there is no such data bank in any country in the world. The implementation of such a project requires the construction of a multi-stage chain of collecting, checking, digitizing paper volumes amounting to millions of sheets, loading data into a powerful search system, and providing global multi-user access to documents. At the same time, all the people involved in its creation feel a special responsibility for the fact that every mistake made in the work can radically change the fate of a particular warrior. All this makes even more valuable the fact that it was in modern Russia that the combined actions of the state, public organizations and scientific and technical firms led to the creation of the Memorial OBD.

The OBD Memorial will be a monument to all soldiers who died and went missing in defense of our Motherland and its interests, in practice implementing the slogan “No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.”

Work to replenish the data bank continues.

The Great Patriotic War turned out to be a difficult ordeal that claimed the lives of a huge number of people. The fate of many soldiers, partisans and civilians who, by the will of fate, found themselves in the occupied territories still remain completely unknown. It is for such cases that a special memorial website was created. Finding a soldier of the Great Patriotic War by last name or clarifying the fate of a distant ancestor is not difficult here. To understand the unknown history of your family and find out where the remains of the missing soldier are buried, it is enough to know basic information about the participant in the war. The remaining actions necessary to obtain information will be done automatically and will not even require effort. And only in special cases, when the standard search system did not bring results, the user will have to resort to an extended version of the query. But even in this case, obtaining the required information will not take much time, since the portal is designed in such a way that anyone, even the most distant person from modern technology, can use it.

Memorial to the memory of the people: search by surname 1941-1945 missing

To understand how useful another portal is, you need to take a closer look at the information available on it and its main characteristic features. Such a feature of the mentioned site is the fact that it was created by order of the Ministry of Defense and functions with the active assistance of the government department.

The main purpose of the memorial site is to search for WWII participants by last name. An additional goal can be called no less significant. It consists of collecting, processing and subsequent systematization of information about people who died or disappeared during the war.

If we do not focus on the technical aspects of the goal set for the portal, we can say that it was created to help relatives and descendants of war veterans (participants, victims). With its help, they get the opportunity to find out what happened to a distant ancestor, understand where his grave is, and clarify his fate.

But it should be noted that not all warriors are present in the current database. Most of the available materials are still awaiting processing and will be added to the extent possible by portal administrators and individuals working for the benefit of the service.

Memorial: find a soldier of the Great Patriotic War by last name - main archive

As mentioned above, working with the online service is as simple as possible and does not require anything special from users. To move on to the memorial to search for those killed in the Second World War, you will need to perform a number of basic actions:

open the portal home page;
find a special search form for it (sometimes you need to scroll down a little);
indicate the details of the required person (last name, first name and patronymic, title, date of birth, if the listed information is known);
Click the button that starts checking the existing information base.

If the results you receive do not contain the hero you need, you can only use the advanced search. There are 3 different options for specifying the required data:

First of all, users have the right to select the databases in which the check will be carried out;
then you can specify detailed information about the person (to do this, you will need to click on the small plus located at the bottom of the proposed list);
the latter approach allows you to use lists of military posts and reserve regiments.

It is important to emphasize that using the service does not require mandatory registration and creation of a personal account. This is not necessary to work with the portal.

Memorial website: search for WWII participants by last name of those who returned from the war

Despite the absence of the need to register to work with information databases, a similar function is still present on the portal. It is extremely simple and does not require anything unusual from visitors to the online service.

To create a personal account on the OBD memorial and find a soldier by last name and year of birth, you will need:

open the official portal and click on the sign prompting you to log in;
after loading the authorization window, you need to switch to the registration subsection by clicking the corresponding button;
Next, you will need to fill out a short form, in which you must indicate your login, last name, email and a strong password (the remaining items can be filled out as desired);
Next, all you have to do is click the “register” button and wait for a letter to arrive at the specified email asking you to confirm the creation of your account;
The last step is to follow the received link.

By confirming the creation of an account, users will be able to use all the functionality of the service and receive the maximum allowable amount of information.

Authorization and password recovery

For those users who have already understood the features of creating a profile on memorial.ru, searching by last name, first name and patronymic will definitely not cause any difficulties. Especially if you log in before using the existing database on the portal. To do this you only need to perform 3 simple steps:

look at the site and click “login” (in the upper right corner);
enter your login and password in the window that opens (you can use an email address instead of a login);
Click the button prompting you to log in.

If all information and combinations have been entered correctly, after a few moments you will be able to use the virtual service. Otherwise, you should try to log in again, entering your password and login more carefully and accurately. If this does not help, all that remains is to use a special form of recovery. To do this you will have to:

open the already mentioned authorization page using the approach described above;
follow the link that says “forgot your password?”;
indicate the email used during registration (if the user did not change it later, in the account settings);
wait for the letter to arrive and follow the instructions received.

Memorial - website of the Ministry of Defense: search by last name of WWII participants

In addition to the information already indicated, it is necessary to mention that the portal contains links to various sources of information, catalogs and other information bases, from where all important information is collected on www.obd-memorial.ru. Lists of missing persons are listed right there in the “sources of information” section.

In situations where the user has difficulties or plans to express gratitude for the help received, you can use a special feedback form. To do this, you will need to get to the very bottom of any open page of the site and click the appropriate inscription. After that, all that remains is to indicate your last name and contact information, select the subject of the appeal and leave the text. If necessary, you can attach links to the text that will confirm the arguments of the applicant. There are no other methods of communication with the administration of the information service.