If Human 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 right and left. That is why the circle of persons admitted to this information is very narrow. Usually it is given only to close relatives.
Instruction
First, we all now live in an age of developed information technologies: Try to search 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 part has its own group on social networks, which you can easily find by identification number. And then, as they say, a matter of technology. On the forum, ask the local "old-timers" if they know such and such Human and, if so, where and how they served together.
If the Internet does not help, proceed to plan "B". Each serviceman after demobilization is obliged to put a mark on military service in the ranks of the army at the military enlistment office at the place of registration, from where he was taken into the army. Then he is obliged to provide accurate data on the place and time of military service, the type of troops, the number of the military unit, 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 location information Human but, for example, a district or district, then you will have to do painstaking work. Compile or find (in the same Internet network) a list of all military units in the area with exact addresses and phone numbers. Then call these parts and request the information you are interested in. Of course, it is not at all a fact that they will gladly provide it to you, but the chance still remains.
The ideal option is a special request from law enforcement or the prosecutor's office, but this is usually required if Human is involved in any criminal case as an accused or a witness. You can get this information only indirectly, either as an implicated person, or by attending an open court session.
Only knowing the history of one's kind, one can be a full-fledged 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-participant of the Great Patriotic War
With the development of digital technologies, the search for a grandfather who died in the war can be carried out independently, with the help of specialized Internet resources. To do this, just enter a query in the line of an Internet search engine, for example: “search for grandfather Vov”. 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 he served or in which military operations he participated, the request can be expanded. In this case, you must enter a query with the following content: “where my grandfather fought search by last name for free” or, for example: “where my grandfather fought search by last name”.
- The most informative and reliable are archive 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 with 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;
- Find information about the awards that your relative received during the war, you can use the services of electronic . This database is interesting in that it contains scanned original documents - award orders and accompanying documents to it. Be sure to save these documents on your computer, print them out, if possible, show these documents to your relatives - everyone should know about the heroism of their ancestors!;
- If during the war one of the relatives was captured by the Nazis, was taken to Germany, or his traces were lost in the occupied territories, it will be useful to search in.
Personally, I found on the site "Feat of the People" information about my grandfather (I post a picture below) and great-grandfather. It was great to read about their exploits. It is interesting that even my dad and his sister did not really know why my grandfather received the medal "For Courage" in 1943 - he did not like to talk about the war at all. On the site "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 site (this is my grandfather's map):
And this is the site and a card of my great-grandfather who went missing:
Do you have any information about your grandparents who defended their homeland
during the war? Tell us in the comments under the article about how you found out who fought where, and how do you feel when you remember your heroic ancestors?
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Not so long ago, I tried to help an acquaintance find relatives who fought in the Second World War (1941-1945). Oddly enough, we quickly managed to find his grandfather, the number of his unit where he fought, and also looked at several of his awards. The acquaintance was pleased and proud of his grandfather, but I thought ...
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 sketch this article). Moreover, many old people do not like to talk about the front, and it is not uncommon for the family to 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 at least something, 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, in order to try to start a search, it is enough to know the first and last name.
And so, below I will consider several interesting sites in more detail ...
No. 1: The 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 the military archives are entered: where and who fought, what awards he received, what feats, etc. Absolutely everything is entered, regardless of the ranks and scale of the feat. I can add that the base of the site has no analogues in size.
Then you will see a list of found people: note that there can be a lot of them if your relative has a common name and surname. Opposite each person will be displayed his year of birth, rank, order, medal (if any).
Quite a lot of information is displayed on the card itself per person: rank, place of conscription, place of service, date of feat (if any), archival documents on awarding, registration card, photo of a leaflet describing the feat, medals and orders (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 get pretty decent information to continue your search (you will know the year of birth, the part where he served, where he was called from, etc. details that many people don’t already 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 did not find anything, try to go in after a while and search again, also use the sites that I will give below.
#2: OBD Memorial
The full name of the site is Generalized Data Bank.
The main purpose of this site is to enable citizens to find and learn about the fate of their relatives, find out the place of their burial, where they served, and other information.
The Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a unique work, as a result of which you can use the reference system of global importance!
The data used to fill the database of this site are 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, more than 45 thousand passports of military graves were scanned and posted online.
How to search for a person in OBD
Yes, it's pretty standard. On the main page of the site, enter all the information that you know into the search fields. It would be nice to enter at least the first name, last name, and patronymic. Then press the search button (example below).
In the data found, you will see the date and place of birth of a person, by which you can 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 leaving, date of leaving, name of the source of information, fund number, source of information. And also see the scanned sheet itself with archived data.
No. 3: Memory of the people
Another site with a huge database created by the Department of Defense. The main goal of the project is to enable all users to obtain information about the participants of 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 another year of birth). Then click the "Find" button.
Next, you will be shown all the people found 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 for which awards were given.
In addition, on this site you can see what was the path along which your grandfather moved and fought (an 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 grandfather was and fought - the path on the map!
If you are looking for a burial place for 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 issue it, and where exactly to send it. In general, very useful information.
Well, that's all for me, I hope it helped, if not found, then at least gave useful "food" to start searching.
- Type in the search the name of your grandfather or great-grandfather or whom you are looking for.
- Write in the discussion of the group, what information you know, what his name was, where he served, his awards. If you have a photo, please attach.
- Add the date of death, the place of death, as well as the place of burial (if known).
The Memorial website helped me find my grandfather, who went to war in 1940 and did not return, was listed as missing. I was able to find by last name, year of birth, by rank where his days ended. It turned out that he died in the summer of 1942, he did not return, only he came home White horse who miraculously found his father's house.
It is also worth looking for a 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 you want to know about.
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 has, and if he died, then the cause of death.
In the Saxon memorials (who died in German captivity) and memorials of the 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 this moment there are special resources on the Internet where it is possible to 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 of interest:
1) The first is the feat of the people
2) The second is the memory of the people
These sites contain data from the archives.
By last name, finding a specific person who fought in the Second World War has become much easier in our time. It is enough to use the 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 some websites that will help you find your missing relative:
The 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 the last name, first name, patronymic.
There is another similar resource. Here is 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, the search for a war participant by last name can also be searched on related resources, for example, like here. My friend did not find the name of his grandfather on the search engines, so he began to search from the military registration and enlistment office and further through the archives of the RF Ministry of Defense. And found. We remember, we are proud!
R.s. Here is another site where you can find information.
good afternoon. I want to know where my grandfather served. SOLOVTSOV Roman Lavrenievich 1912. FROM THE PRIMORSKY TERRITORY S.ANUCHINO.WAS CAPTIVE IN A CONCENTLAGE.
Information resources opened on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
The feat of the people and the memory of the people. Resources are filled with information available in military archives. I found there information about my grandfather and his awards.
Look, maybe you will find your grandfather.
I want to know where my father Dyakov Ivan Mikhailovich fought, born April 14, 1925. drafted from the Altai Territory with. Kolonkovo
In order to proudly talk about our relatives, who fought for our bright future without sparing their lives, it is necessary to make some efforts in the search.
Perhaps the most accessible is the database of those who fought, which is presented on the World Wide Web.
So, knowing only the last name and first name, you can go to the most valuable storehouse of data.
There is a special
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