If Human has already served in the armed forces, then you have several options in order to find out reliable information about the place of passage military service. Of course, such information is specific, and it is not distributed left and right. That is why the circle of people admitted to this information is very narrow. Usually it is given only to close relatives.
Instructions
Firstly, now we all live in a developed age information technology: Try searching for information on the Internet. If you know the number of the military unit, then enter it into the search engine. As practice shows, now almost every unit has its own group in social networks, which you can easily find by identification number. And then, as they say, it’s a matter of technique. On the forum, ask local “old-timers” if they know such and such Human and, and if so, where and how they served together.
If the Internet does not help, proceed to plan B. After demobilization, each serviceman is required to put a mark on his military service in the army at the military registration and enlistment office at the place of registration from where he was taken into the army. Then he is obliged to provide accurate information about the place and time of military service, the branch of service, the number of the military unit, and the exact address. Therefore, the easiest way to find out the information you are interested in is to contact the military registration and enlistment office.
If you only have approximate information about your duty station Human and, for example, a district or district, then you will have to do painstaking work. Make or find (on the same Internet) a list of all military units in this area with exact addresses and telephone numbers. Then call these parts and ask for the information you are interested in. Of course, it’s not at all a fact that they will willingly provide it to you, but the chance still remains.
The ideal option is a special request from law enforcement agencies or the prosecutor's office, but this is usually required if Human is involved in any criminal case as an accused or witness. You can only obtain this information indirectly, either as a participant, or by attending an open court hearing.
Only by knowing the history of your family can you be a full member of society. It is important to remember and honor the memory of grandfathers and great-grandfathers who defended their Motherland at the cost of their lives. However, it often happens that information about a deceased or missing relative is not preserved in the memory of descendants. In this case, you can try to restore the information by referring to archival documents.
Search for a grandfather who participated in the Second World War
With the development of digital technologies, the search for a grandfather who died in the war can be carried out independently, using specialized Internet resources. To do this, just enter a query in the Internet search engine, for example: “search for grandfather of the Great Patriotic War.” If you had several front-line soldiers in your family, and you would like to know who fought where, in which sectors of the front they served, or in which military operations they participated, you can expand your request. In this case, you need to enter a query with the following content: “where did my grandfather fight, search by last name for free” or, for example: “where did my grandfather fight, search by last name.”
- The most informative and reliable are archival sites created with the support of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation, or created by the Russian Historical Society. If you are wondering: “Where did my grandfather fight?” - the search should begin by viewing the resource. This site contains information about Soviet soldiers who died or went missing during the fighting or in the post-war period. You can find a war hero by name, year of birth and rank;
- You can find information about the awards that your relative received during the war using the electronic services . This database is interesting because it contains scanned original documents - awards orders and accompanying documents. Be sure to save these documents on your computer, print them, if possible, show these documents to your relatives - everyone should know about the heroism of their ancestors!;
- If during the war one of your relatives was captured by the Nazis, was taken to German territory, or his traces were lost in the occupied territories, a search in .
Personally, I found it on the site "Feat of the people" information about my grandfather (I post a picture below) and great-grandfather. It was very nice to read about their exploits. It’s interesting that even my dad and his sister didn’t really know why my grandfather received the medal “For Courage” in 1943 - he didn’t like to talk about the war at all. On the website "Memorial" I found information about my grandfather’s two brothers who were missing and another great-grandfather who died in the war in February 1945. Eternal memory to my glorious ancestors!
This is what information about a soldier looks like on the website: (this is my grandfather's card):
And this is the site and a card of my great-grandfather, who disappeared:
Do you have information about your grandparents who defended their homeland?
during the war? Tell us in the comments below the article about how you found out who fought where, and what you feel when you remember your heroic ancestors?
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Not long ago I tried to help an acquaintance find relatives who fought in the Second World War (1941-1945). Oddly enough, we managed to find his grandfather quite quickly, the number of his unit where he fought, and also looked at several of his awards. My friend was pleased and proud of his grandfather, but I started thinking...
I think that almost every family has relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War, and many would like to know more about them (which is why I decided to write this article). Moreover, many old people do not like to talk about the front, and often in the family they do not even know all the grandfather’s awards!
By the way, many people mistakenly believe (and I did until recently) that in order to find anything, you need to know a lot of information about a person, know how to access archives (and where to go), have a lot of free time, etc. . But in fact, now, to try to start a search, it’s enough to know your first and last name.
And so, below I will consider several interesting sites in more detail...
No. 1: Feat of the people
A very, very interesting site created by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It is a large database in which all available documents from military archives are entered: where and who fought, what awards he received, what feats, etc. Absolutely everyone is included, regardless of rank and scale of feat. I can add that the size of the site’s database has no analogues.
Then you will see a list of found people: note that there can be a lot of them if your relative has a common first and last name. Opposite each person his year of birth, rank, order, medal (if any) will be displayed.
The person’s card itself displays quite a lot of information: rank, place of conscription, place of service, date of feat (if any), archival documents on awards, account card, photo of a leaflet describing the feat, medal and order (example below).
In general, quite informative and complete. I recommend starting your search for a person from this site. If you are lucky and you find information about him here, then you will receive pretty decent information to continue the search (you will know the year of birth, the unit where you served, where you were drafted from, etc. details that many no longer know about).
By the way, despite the fact that all the basic information has already been posted on the site, from time to time it is updated with new archival data. Therefore, if you haven’t found anything, try to come back after some time and search again, also use the sites that I will give below.
No. 2: OBD Memorial
The full name of the site is Generalized Data Bank.
The main goal of this site is to enable citizens to find and learn about the fate of their relatives, find out their burial place, where they served, and other information.
The Military Memorial Center of the Russian Armed Forces has carried out unique work, as a result of which you can use a reference system of global importance!
The data used to populate the database of this site is taken from official archival documents located in the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Central Naval Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Military Archive, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, etc.
During the work, more than 16.8 million documents and over 45 thousand passports of military graves were scanned and posted online.
How to search for a person in the OBD
Yes, in general it’s standard. On the main page of the site, enter all the information you know into the search fields. It would be very nice to enter at least the first name, last name, and patronymic. Then click the search button (example below).
In the data found, you will see the date and place of birth of the person, which you can use to navigate and start viewing the necessary profiles.
In the questionnaire you can find out the following information: full name, date and place of birth, date and place of conscription, military rank, reason for retirement, date of retirement, name of the source of information, fund number, source of information. And also look at the scanned sheet itself with archival data.
No. 3: Memory of the people
Another site with a huge database created by the Ministry of Defense. The main goal of the project is to enable all users to obtain information about participants in the Great Patriotic War through new web tools and the development of generalized data banks “Memorial” and “Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”
To start searching for a person, just enter his full name (if any, then his year of birth). Then click the "Find" button.
Next, you will be shown all found people with similar initials. By opening a card for a person, you will find out: his date of birth, place of conscription, military units, awards, dates of feats, numbers of funds - sources of information, archive, you can see scans of what awards were given for.
In addition, on this site you can see what the path along which your grandfather moved and fought was like. (example on the map below: the beginning of the journey near Novosibirsk, then Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny, etc.).
Note: the map is quite large, and the screenshot below shows a small piece of it.
Where my grandfather was and fought - the path on the map!
If you are looking for the burial place of your relatives who participated in the Second World War, I recommend that you also read this article:.
In it you will learn how to correctly create a request to the archive, how to formalize it, and where exactly to send it. In general, very useful information.
Well, that’s all for me, I hope I helped, if not find it, then at least gave useful “food” to start searching.
- Enter the name of your grandfather or great-grandfather or whoever you are looking for into the search.
- Write in the group discussion what information you know, what his name was, where he served, his awards and gender. If you have a photo, attach it.
- Add the date of death, place of death, and place of burial (if known).
The Memorial website helped me find my grandfather, who went to war in 1940 and did not return; he was listed as missing. I was able to find by last name, year of birth, and rank where his days ended. It turned out that he died in the summer of 1942, he did not return, only his white horse, who miraculously found his father's house.
It’s also worth looking for your grandfather here: Memory of the People.
You can try to do this in several ways. First, go to this site, enter the last name, first name, patronymic of the relative whose information you want to know.
Some information is also stored on this site.
If these attempts are unsuccessful, then you need to contact the archives of the Ministry of Defense.
You can find out where your relative fought on the websites of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: podvignaroda.mil.ru and obd-memorial.ru, where you can find not only where he fought, but also what awards he had, and if he died, then the cause of death.
In the Saxon memorials (those who died in captivity of Germany) and memorials of victims of political terror in the USSR, as well as in the archives of the country.
The memory of the heroes of the Second World War is eternal!
On at the moment There are special resources on the Internet where you can find out by last name where our grandfathers fought in the Second World War. Among such resources, I personally know the following sites, which you can go to and try to find out the information you are interested in:
1) The first is a feat of the people
2) The second is the memory of the people
These sites contain data from archives.
It has become much easier in our time to find a specific person who fought in the Second World War by last name. It is enough to use sites with a register of all those who served at that time. On such sites you can track the movement of the unit in which your grandfather served and even find information about where he died and was buried (if he did not live to see the victory on May 9). Here are sites that will help you find your missing relative:
Feat of the people
memory of the people
Memorial
Visit this site. Here you can find out all the information about your relative. It will be enough to enter your last name, first name, patronymic.
There is another similar resource. Here's a link to it. Good luck in your search!
Unfortunately, non-participants of the Great Patriotic War can be found on the main Internet resources. Therefore, you can also search for a war participant by last name on related resources, for example here. A friend of mine couldn’t find his grandfather’s last name on search engines, so he started searching from the military registration and enlistment office and further through the archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense. And I found it. We remember, we are proud!
R.s. Here is another site where you can get information.
Good afternoon. I want to know where my grandfather served. SOLOVTSOV Roman Lavrenevich 1912. FROM PRIMORSKY REGION S. ANUCHINO. WAS PRISONER IN SOME CONCENTRATION LAGE.
Information resources have been opened for the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
Feat of the people and Memory of the people. Resources are filled with information available in military archives. I found information there about my grandfather and his awards.
Look, maybe you will find your grandfather.
I want to know where my father Dyakov Ivan Mikhailovich, born April 14, 1925, fought. called up from the Altai Territory. Kolonkovo
In order to proudly talk about your relatives, who fought without sparing their lives for our bright future, you need to make some efforts in the search.
Perhaps the most accessible database is the database of combatants, which is presented on the World Wide Web.
So, knowing only your last name and first name, you can access a most valuable treasure trove of data.
There is a special
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