| Name: | Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 |
| Web address: | podvignaroda.ru, podvig-naroda.ru, podvignaroda.mil.ru |
| Site type: | database |
| Foundation date: | 04/09/2010 |
"Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"- an electronic bank of documents relating to the period of the Great Patriotic War.
The contents of the databank are documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsAMO), namely, award files and documents on the operational management of hostilities. It is planned to enter into the database data on 30 million awards from the period of military operations of the Great Patriotic War, in total, access will be open to more than 200,000 archival files with a total volume of about 100 million sheets.
History
The initiator of the project is the Department of Development of Information and Telecommunication Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, telecommunications support is provided by OJSC Rostelecom. The creation of the database is carried out by CJSC NPO "Experience", the total cost of the project is 22 million rubles. The technical implementation of the project is carried out by the Electronic Archive Corporation.
On the official website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the project is called unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
The site was launched in April 2010. Completion of work on filling the data bank is scheduled for December 2012. In the public domain on the Internet is located at: http://www.podvignaroda.mil.ru/. This site requires Adobe Flash to be installed. A mobile version of the site is also supported at: http://195.68.154.73/podvig .
Access restriction problem
After June 2010, the OBD was not replenished for half a year. A new update took place on December 8, 2010: data on 71,053 awards were added to the "Heroes of War" section, it was also possible to subscribe to notifications of updates in the document bank by e-mail.
At the same time, a notice appeared on the main page of the site: “Restricted access information provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation, as part of the OBD “Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” not published." In the OBD, access to the information of award lists about the military enlistment offices for conscripting soldiers, as well as the addresses of their relatives was closed: this information in the award lists was retouched and made inaccessible when viewing, as well as in the search form.
At the beginning of 2010, restrictions on access to previously posted information were already introduced on another resource of the Russian Ministry of Defense, OBD "Memorial", but then the public managed to return all the data. In this case, the restriction on access to personal information (which, in the case of search teams, could significantly facilitate the identification of the remains of soldiers) also caused a negative public reaction. On December 12, 2010, the participants of the Soldat.ru website forum addressed a letter to the President of Russia, the Prime Minister of the Government of Russia, the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia with a request to restore access to classified information. Two days later, information appeared that the President had read the letter and instructed the Russian Defense Minister to look into the situation. In early January 2011, a representative of the Electronic Archive company reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense ordered to return information about military enlistment offices (but not addresses) and search for them to the site.
Database
www.podvignaroda.ru
www.obd-memorial.ru
www.pamyat-naroda.ru
www.rkka.ru/ihandbook.htm
www.moypolk.ru
www.dokst.ru
www.polk.ru
www.pomnite-nas.ru
www.permgani.ru
fatherland.rf, rf-poisk.ru
rf-poisk.ru/page/34
soldat.com
memento.sebastopol.ua
memory-book.com.ua
soldat.ru - a set of directories for self-search of information about the fate of military personnel (including a directory of field postal stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945, a directory of conditional names of military units (institutions) in 1939-1943, a directory of the deployment of hospitals of the Red Army in 1941-1945 years);
www.rkka.ru - a directory of military abbreviations (as well as charters, instructions, directives, orders and personal documents of wartime).
Libraries
oldgazette.ru - old newspapers (including the war period);
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
www.rkka.ru - military topographic maps with combat situation (by periods of war and operations).
Search engine sites
www.rf-poisk.ru is the official website of the Russian Search Movement.
Archives
www.archives.ru - Federal Archival Agency (Rosarchiv);
www.rusarchives.ru - branch portal "Archives of Russia";
archive.mil.ru - Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense;
rgvarchive.ru
rgaspi.org
rgavmf.ru - Russian State Archive of the Navy (RGAVMF). The archive stores documents of the Russian Navy (end of the 17th century - 1940). Naval documentation of the period of the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period is stored in the Central Naval Archive (TsVMA) in Gatchina, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;
victory.rusarchives.ru - a list of federal and regional archives of Russia (with direct links and descriptions of collections of photographic and film documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War).
Partners of the Victory Stars project
www.mil.ru - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
www.histrf.ru - Russian Military Historical Society.
www.rgo.ru - Russian Geographical Society.
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Database
www.podvignaroda.ru - a publicly available electronic bank of documents on awardees and awards during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945;
www.obd-memorial.ru - a generalized data bank about the defenders of the Fatherland, who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period;
www.pamyat-naroda.ru is a public data bank about the fate of the participants in the Great Patriotic War. Search for places of primary burials and documents about awards, about service, about victories and hardships on the battlefields;
www.rkka.ru/ihandbook.htm - awarded the Order of the Red Banner in the period from 1921 to 1931;
www.moypolk.ru - information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War, including home front workers - the living, the dead, the dead and the missing. Collected and replenished by participants of the all-Russian action "Immortal Regiment";
www.dokst.ru - information about those who died in captivity in Germany;
www.polk.ru - information about Soviet and Russian soldiers who went missing in the wars of the 20th century (including the pages "The Great Patriotic War" and "Undelivered awards");
www.pomnite-nas.ru - photographs and descriptions of military graves;
www.permgani.ru - database on the website of the Perm State Archive of Recent History. Includes basic biographical information about former Red Army servicemen (natives of the Perm Territory or those called up for military service from the territory of the Kama region), who during the Great Patriotic War were surrounded and (or) captured by the enemy, and after returning to their homeland underwent a special state check (filtration);
fatherland.rf, rf-poisk.ru - electronic version of the book "Names from Soldiers' Medallions", volumes 1-6. They contain alphabetical information about those who died during the war years, whose remains, discovered during the search work, were identified;
rf-poisk.ru/page/34/ – memory books (by regions of Russia, with direct links and annotations);
soldat.ru - books of memory (for individual regions, military branches, individual units and formations, about those who died in captivity, those who died in Afghanistan, Chechnya);
memento.sebastopol.ua - Crimean virtual necropolis;
memory-book.com.ua - electronic memory book of Ukraine;
soldat.ru - a set of directories for self-search of information about the fate of military personnel (including a directory of field postal stations of the Red Army in 1941-1945, a directory of conditional names of military units (institutions) in 1939-1943, a directory of the deployment of hospitals of the Red Army in 1941-1945 years);
rgvarchive.ru - Russian State Military Archive (RGVA). The archive stores documents on the combat operations of the Red Army units in 1937-1939. near Lake Khasan, on the Khalkhin Gol River, in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Here are documents of the border and internal troops of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD-MVD of the USSR since 1918; documents of the Main Directorate for Prisoners of War and Internees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and institutions of its system (GUPVI of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR) for the period 1939-1960; personal documents of Soviet military figures; documents of foreign origin (trophy). On the website of the archive you can also find guides and reference books that make it easier to work with it.
rgaspi.org - Russian State Archive of Socio-Political Information (RGASPI). The period of the Great Patriotic War in RGASPI is represented by the documents of the emergency state authority - the State Defense Committee (GKO, 1941-1945) and the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander;
The Internet project of the Ministry of Defense of Russia "Feat of the People" is designed to make it easier for those who wish to study the history of those years. After all, this project contains tens of thousands of documents about awards for feats accomplished by ordinary Soviet people during the Second World War and the war with Japan. In this article, I will describe how to search by surnames in the Feat of the People, talk about the functionality of the website of the Ministry of Defense, and also explain how to use it.
"Feat of the people" - an unprecedented project of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, dedicated to the awards of the soldiers of the Red Army in the Second World War
The Great Patriotic War left an indelible mark on the history of our people. Millions of dead, thousands of destroyed cities and villages, tens of thousands of destroyed enterprises, collective farms and state farms - the price for the Victory turned out to be simply huge. The past years are gradually erasing the details of those years from the memory of generations, the outlines of what happened are looking more and more vague, fewer direct participants in the victory over Nazism remain alive.
The significance of the search for participants in the Great Patriotic War in the "Feat of the People"
The Internet resource "Feat of the People" is a generalized data bank on the awards received by Soviet soldiers and commanders during the Great Patriotic War (as well as the Manchurian operation, which ended with the surrender of Japan). This data warehouse includes the corresponding scanned documents from the Russian archives of the TsA MO and TsVMA (several tens of millions of documents), including numerous records of awarding medals and orders "For Military Merit", "For Courage" "Patriotic War" (I and II degrees) , for the defense and liberation of various territories, and so on.
First of all, the website of the Ministry of Defense is aimed at searching for information about awards and the conditions for receiving them, allowing you to get detailed data on the type of award, the date and circumstances of the feat, the place of service of a serviceman, and more.
The site began work in the spring of 2010, and to this day continues to be filled with relevant documents (the last major addition of documents took place in 2015). In total, more than 30 million documents are planned to be added to the database.
Technical support for the project was provided by the ELAR Corporation. The resource that previously existed in Flash has now been rewritten in HTML5.
Feat of the People search by surnames, awards and those who returned from the war
To work with this service, go to the site podvignaroda.ru. There are five main tabs at the very top of the site:
For example, if you want to search by the name of your relative, go to the "People and awards" tab, and in the corresponding window that opens, enter the name (at least the last name) of your relative, and click on the "Search" button.
Use the "PEOPLE AND AWARDS" tab to find the people you need You will be shown a list of found people whose full name matches the one you specified. Look for the person you need in this list, click on his data, and you will be redirected to another page where a list of orders and other documents for this person will be indicated.
By choosing any of the documents listed here, you will have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with its digital form, and visually study all the documentation on the award received on this resource.
Work on other resource contributions is carried out in a similar way through the functionality of the search bar.
Conclusion
In this article, I described the resource "The Feat of the People", as well as the features of its functionality. At the same time, this project of the Ministry of Defense is not the only one of its kind. We can also note the project "Memory of the People", in which you can search for data on the place of military operations (there are data on more than two hundred military operations), according to decrees and other relevant documents. Access to unique historical data allows us to recreate a picture of the heroic past of our people, thereby contributing to the development of the spiritual and historical connection between the generations of our country.
| Name: | Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 |
| Web address: | podvignaroda.ru, podvig-naroda.ru, podvignaroda.mil.ru |
| Site type: | database |
| Foundation date: | 04/09/2010 |
"Feat of the People in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"- an electronic bank of documents relating to the period of the Great Patriotic War.
The contents of the databank are documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsAMO), namely, award files and documents on the operational management of hostilities. It is planned to enter into the database data on 30 million awards from the period of military operations of the Great Patriotic War, in total, access will be open to more than 200,000 archival files with a total volume of about 100 million sheets.
History
The initiator of the project is the Department of Development of Information and Telecommunication Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, telecommunications support is provided by OJSC Rostelecom. The creation of the database is carried out by CJSC NPO "Experience", the total cost of the project is 22 million rubles. The technical implementation of the project is carried out by the Electronic Archive Corporation.
On the official website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the project is called unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
The site was launched in April 2010. Completion of work on filling the data bank is scheduled for December 2012. In the public domain on the Internet is located at: http://www.podvignaroda.mil.ru/. This site requires Adobe Flash to be installed. A mobile version of the site is also supported at: http://195.68.154.73/podvig .
Access restriction problem
After June 2010, the OBD was not replenished for half a year. A new update took place on December 8, 2010: data on 71,053 awards were added to the "Heroes of War" section, it was also possible to subscribe to notifications of updates in the document bank by e-mail.
At the same time, a notice appeared on the main page of the site: “Restricted access information provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation, as part of the OBD “Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” not published." In the OBD, access to the information of award lists about the military enlistment offices for conscripting soldiers, as well as the addresses of their relatives was closed: this information in the award lists was retouched and made inaccessible when viewing, as well as in the search form.
At the beginning of 2010, restrictions on access to previously posted information were already introduced on another resource of the Russian Ministry of Defense, OBD "Memorial", but then the public managed to return all the data. In this case, the restriction on access to personal information (which, in the case of search teams, could significantly facilitate the identification of the remains of soldiers) also caused a negative public reaction. On December 12, 2010, the participants of the Soldat.ru website forum addressed a letter to the President of Russia, the Prime Minister of the Government of Russia, the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia with a request to restore access to classified information. Two days later, information appeared that the President had read the letter and instructed the Russian Defense Minister to look into the situation. In early January 2011, a representative of the Electronic Archive company reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense ordered to return information about military enlistment offices (but not addresses) and search for them to the site.
Website Feat of the People
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has developed an Internet resource that provides an opportunity to view all the documents available in the military archives on the progress and results of the main military operations, exploits and awards of all the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. This site has open access, that is, anyone can view its content. The site of the feat of the people has been operating for seven years, or rather, it was developed in 2010. During this time, many people have restored the memory of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers. The main purpose of creating this site is to provide open access to complete information about military awards for feats during the Great Patriotic War, available in the Russian archives. To date, the site is not filled with a complete database, it has yet to be filled with orders for awarding wartime, stored among the documents of the funds of formations and units; missing documents on the awarding of medals for the defense, liberation and capture of cities and territories, for the victory over Germany and Japan, orders for awards for military exploits issued in the post-war period.
To go to the site of the Ministry of Defense, you will need to enter the following address in the address bar of your browser: podvignaroda.ru. After going to the site, you will see the main page of the site feat of the people.
On the main page you will find three active tabs: people and awards, award documents, war geography.
Main page of the site Feat of the people
Using the "People and awards" tab, you can search for people by last name, first name, patronymic and the like in award lists, award orders and in the file cabinet. In the search bar, you must enter the data of a person who disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.
people and awards
If the data you entered matches any data from the archive of the feat of the people site, then this information will be provided to you in the search results. If the computer does not find matches in the archive with your request, you can use the advanced search or try to check after a while. The site database is periodically updated and it is possible that after the update the search result will be positive for you.
With the help of the "Award Documents" tab, you can search for decrees, award orders. To do this, you need to click on the "Award Documents" tab on the main page of the site. After that, you will go to another page of the site, where there is a search bar.
String to search for award documents
In this line you need to enter the document number, date of issue or any other information about the document. You can also use advanced search here.
If you need to search for data by the location and time of the event, then use the "War Geography" tab. By clicking on this tab, you will be redirected to a new page of the site, where there is a search bar. In this line, you will need to enter any data known to you, it can be a document number, date, or something else.
Geography of the war
Bottom of home page
Using the "Feedback" tab, you can write a message to the site administration. For some time, your message will be processed, and you will receive a response to it by e-mail.
Before asking a question to the site administration, we recommend that you first view the "Questions and Answers" tab. In this tab, you can find the answer to your question, and you will not have to wait a few days to get an answer to your question.
The feat of the people The site of the Ministry of Defense was created specifically to perpetuate the memory of all the heroes of the Victory, regardless of the rank, the scale of the feat, the status of the award. Each participant in hostilities is honored with eternal memory. This site was also launched in order to create a factual basis that will become a powerful counter to attempts to falsify the history of the War.
