Immortal Regiment: search for a soldier, veteran, WWII member by last name for free. How to find a front-line soldier by name and patronymic, by awards?

How to find information about a participant in the Great Patriotic War?

The massive growth of the All-Russian action "Immortal Regiment" has caused a huge increase in interest in finding information about the warriors' front-line fate. Not every soldier returned from the war and told the descendants of his difficult military campaign. Many of those who have waited until their native still seek any news about him.

How to find a front-line soldier by the surname of the name and patronymic?

A powerful electronic project, created on the basis of data and with the support of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, provides an opportunity for people to access archival documents with the help of which one can find a soldier who participated in the Second World War, knowing his name.

• We begin the search by going to the main page of the of the Central Archive on link .
• On the left side of the opened page, we click on " Memory of the people ".

The first step of

• Next, enter the line in the name of the wanted soldier.

The second step

• All the information available in the files will appear on this person.

The third step of the

This site gives an opportunity to trace on the map the entire combat route of the part in which the war participant served.

You can see:

• Award sheet of the hero

Additional information

• What a feat was committed by the soldiers

For which the hero

• was awarded. Other available information

Some additional information

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Search for the participant of the Second World War by awards

Unfortunately, by the number of the award, it will not be possible to find the hero. All available resources use archival documents in which this information is not reflected.

Immortal regiment: how to search for a person, soldier, relative by last name in the archive?

1. Find a veteran will help the site created by the all-Russian public civil-patriotic movement " Immortal Regiment of Russia ".Data is updated daily. You can perform the search here.
2. For Moscow residents, the project " Immortal Regiment - Moscow " was created. It collects and adds every day information about the heroes who lived in Moscow. We pass by the link.
3. Since 2014, on behalf of the President and the Decree of the Government of Russia, the project " Memory of the People " is being implemented - is looking for here.

It contains a combined project archive:

• " Memorial " - link
• " Feat of the People " - link

Other ways to find a veteran

1. Information about the dead soldiers looking for soldat.ru
2. Project " Winners ", created for the 60th anniversary of the Victory, accumulated millions of lists of live participants in its database. You can get the information of interest here .
3. Finding the dead and people missing in the war will help to realize the virtual monument " Remember About ".

In case of unsuccessful search for your hero, you can make a written request for access:

• To documents stored:

1. In Rosarkhiv
2. The portal « Russian Archives «
3. In central archive Defense
4. In RGVA
5. In RGASPI
6. In RGAVMF

Or resort to the help:

• Red Cross Russian
• Red Cross ( international level)
• CAMO for recounting the draftee
• CAMO
• In case the veteran is buried in another country:

1. We appeal to the Russian Houses created by the states that are members of the EU.To do this, we type in the search engine the name of this portal, which is of interest to the country. For example, the Serbian website in Belgrade ruskidom.rs.
2. We go to the reception in the Russian embassy of the state of interest.

• We address to the detachments engaged in individual search.

If the search does not give a positive result, do not lose heart, keep looking for any information, maybe in some lost folder there are the necessary data.

To perpetuate the memory, create a reliable database that does not allow falsifying the history of the war, strengthen the patriotism of the younger generation, with the help of heroic deeds of veterans - the main goal of all the projects created to search for the Victory heroes.

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