Good afternoon!
I am the granddaughter of Dotsenko Artem Korneevich. My mother is Ekaterina Artemovna Zvonareva ( maiden name Dotsenko) daughter of Artem Korneevich Found on the resource. Information that you can find your grandfather's award
Dotsenko Artem Korneevich Year of birth: __.__.1900
place of birth: Kirghiz SSR, Osh region, Uzgen district, s. Leninskoe
No. of award document: 55
date of award document: 08/01/1986 record number: 1514962302 Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
But the fact is that we do not have grandfather's documents, according to the data, the award was in 86, grandfather died in 1988, but no one told us this. We then still lived in Kyrgyzstan, in the Osh region, but in Kochkor-ata, and in 1993 we moved to Russia.
In 86, grandfather and grandmother Dotsenko Irina Stepanovna lived in the village of Leninskoye near Uzgen, with their eldest daughter Sofya Artemovna, at that time they moved in with her, since it was already hard on their own, they were old at all, maybe that’s why they didn’t find her, unfortunately, they are no longer alive either. But the award was definitely not presented. We would have known it was a holiday.
Where we live now, my mother is alive, thank God, but then we left in a hurry, we lived in the Osh region, therefore, unfortunately, the documents were not preserved. I hope my mother has a birth certificate and a marriage certificate, I also have her now 701 years old.
And there is an error in the birth data, the grandfather was born in Ukraine, and during the war he moved his family to Kyrgyzstan with children, and he himself went to the front, either from Ukraine, or from Leningrad, And the data indicates his place of residence after the war and before death itself in 88.
Of all my grandfather's children, my mother and her brother Alexei Artemovich survived, but he is even older than my mother. Naturally, his last name is like that of his grandfather. Please tell me how they can get their grandfather's award? Or at least a document confirming that he was awarded, this is just a symbol, but very important. What needs to be done, I would very much like to please them, I already called my mother and said, she already burst into tears. Our grandfather was a human being, but before the war in Ukraine he fell under repression, later they released him and he volunteered, although they didn’t really want to take it, broke through, returned wounded, spent his whole life with pieces of iron from wounds in his leg and arm. He was very strong. We did not even think that a reward was possible, given the repression that preceded the war. Help.
If it is possible to find some more information about the grandfather's military path and you can help, we will be very very grateful. There will be something to tell the great-grandchildren about the roots.
Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland Military Memorial Department Information service"Memory of the people"
Information service "Memory of the people"
Portal "Memory of the people" created by the Ministry of Defense by decision of the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory" and supported by the order of the President of the Russian Federation and the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.
The main goal of the project is to provide users with the opportunity to get the most full information about the participants of the Great Patriotic War due to new interactive tools and the development of the generalized data banks "Memorial" and "The feat of the people in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945".
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The project "Memory of the people" is:
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Development information resources Ministry of Defense of Russia,
as a form of perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland
The Russian Ministry of Defense continues to work on the development and replenishment of the interactive service "Memory of the People", which combined the existing public data banks "Memorial" and "Feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".
Currently interactive service"Memory of the People" includes:
over 106.6 million digitized pages of archival operational documents of the fronts, armies and formations of the Red Army (including 127 thousand files of headquarters documents, of which more than 48,600 files of combat logs of fronts, armies and divisions, documents and schemes for managing military operations ;
58.0 million records out of 21.3 million digital copies of documents on the irretrievable losses of the Red Army, military transit points and reserve regiments;
more than 42,000 passports of military burials, including 11,994 passports in foreign countries, with lists of the buried, documents on the places of primary burials of more than 5.0 million soldiers and officers, more than 1.2 million records of trophy documents about Soviet prisoners of war;
more than 28.0 million records of award documents;
about 51,800 historical maps and schemes of combat operations of the headquarters of fronts, armies and divisions, 12.5 million records with information on maps about the accomplished feats of soldiers and officers;
29.52 million cards about injuries and deaths from wounds in hospitals and medical battalions;
description of 227 major battles of the Great Patriotic War.
The intellectual system allows using the archive documents available in the database to restore the combat path of associations, formations, military units and individual servicemen from the place of conscription to the place of death, the last place of service in the active army or return home. In July 2017, the interactive service was supplemented by the Internet portal "In Memory of Heroes great war 1914-1918". The Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, through the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory", was tasked with digitizing original documents on the main battles, losses, awards and military burials of the Russian Imperial Army. The work will be completed by the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War in 2018.
The Internet portal "In Memory of the Heroes of the Great War of 1914-1918" contains information about 2,278,000 participants in the war, including 115,144 killed and missing, 3,066 awards, obtained from the collection of the Highest Orders for the Military Department for 1914 , as well as 783 archival documents (historical materials with maps, photographs, documents of military units, newspapers and magazines of that time, as well as descriptions of seventy-six battles and hostilities).
The general concept of the development of the resource implies the coverage of the entire history of the conduct of military operations in Russia, from 1914 to the present.
This project has no analogues in the world. Already now it is effective tool protection against attempts to falsify history. But the most important thing is an unprecedented opportunity to restore and preserve historical memory and the connection between generations.
Currently, the Commission continues to work, determining the possibility of exhibiting in open access information posted in a closed autonomous segment of the portal. As the Commission works, the information will appear in the public domain.
Information technology reveals to us huge opportunities. Now we can find a person via the Internet without leaving home. Some people use this chance to find out at least something about the participants in the war of 1941-1945. After all, how many destinies were then lost, missing. Today, relatives are trying to recover information, find out the details of what happened. Previously, it was very difficult to find a veteran of the Patriotic War by last name or other information, but now it is quite possible. To do this, there are many electronic resources and databases. We will write about them below.
Where can I find information about participants in World War II?
Get ready for a tough task ahead of you. Below we list the largest electronic resources, created with the support of the government and central archives:
- "Memorial" is a project that is a generalized repository. There are more than 33 million records about the fate of soldiers and burial places. Search on the site is carried out, both by the name of a person, and by any other indicators. You can indicate the year of birth, place or title. You can additionally use the " Advanced Search". By default, the system will work with summary records compiled for each person from available documents;
- "Memory of the People" is another project dedicated to the heroes of the Second World War. To search, you need to enter your full name in the line located at the top of the page " war heroes". You can also use the items: Combat operations», « military graves», « Part Documents". In them you can see the addresses of burial places and the names of the fallen soldiers, material about military operations, the fate of its participants, etc.
Both sites are easy to use. It houses a huge number of unique documents in in electronic format which are not found anywhere else.
Search for WWII veterans by awards
The electronic archive "Feat of the People" contains information about more than 6 million awards issued for the capture, defense, liberation of cities and territories.
You can search both by full name and by dates, names of orders. And if you have any documents on hand, you can enter the text from them in the appropriate fields through the button " Advanced Search". Then the resource will issue all award sheets and orders in which it occurs this set offers.
You can also use the portal "About awards.ru". It contains over 20 million award entries.
List of military archives and departments
There is an option to go directly to military storage facilities and departments, to be interested there:
In addition, projects on which you can read old wartime newspapers. They often posted texts with photographs about the achievements of our troops at the front, in order to raise patriotism among the people, they listed the names of heroes and leaders:
You may have to spend a lot of time, but the more resources you visit, the more applications you leave, the more likely you are to succeed.
How to find the dead or missing in the war of 1941-1945?
Here we list the resources on which it is possible to learn about the fate of the people left on the battlefields:
- Project "Archive Battalion" created to restore information about the participants in the wars of the 20th century. You can leave a request on the site with a request to conduct a study of the exploits of your hero, where and how he fought, died. It is also possible to contact the office, directly to the employees. The address is here;
- Memory Book "Immortal Regiment". The site allows you to get information about Muscovites, both those who returned home and those who died;
- Electronic memorial "Remember Pro" is a social site for those who are trying to keep the memory of their relatives and friends participating in the Second World War. You can create a memorial page for a veteran here, tell his story, publish photos and documents. And also do a search;
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The website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Memory of the People" was created by the decision of the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory". The main goal of this project is to provide people with the opportunity to get the most complete information about the participants in the Great Patriotic War through modern interactive tools and the development of generalized data from the sites "" and "".
Main page website "Memory of the people".
Within the framework of the latest Internet project “Memory of the People”, about 425 thousand archival materials of the fronts, armies and other military formations of the Red Army were digitized and posted on the Web for the first time. These materials included original documents on the course of hostilities, orders, commanders' reports, and much more.
In addition, digitization and electronic processing over 100,000 military maps were subjected. Data from these materials were later entered into the database of the position of all the parts and formations marked on them. These documents and other data, including information about the places of conscription, death and last place military services provide an opportunity to see the heroic path of all participants in the Second World War. You can read more about the project.
"Memory of the people": search by surname
The site "Memory of the people" implemented a search by name. In addition, the structure of the site consists of thematic sections: Heroes of War; combat operations; military graves; parts documents. The site contains unique information about the burial places of WWII veterans who fell in battle or died from wounds. Relatives of the fallen veterans, knowing the address of the burial place and finding this place on archival and modern maps, will be able to learn about the feat of their relatives who participated in the war of 1941-1945.
An example of a search result by last name on the website "Memory of the People" As we can see, during the initial search by the surname, name and patronymic of a veteran, the search gives us 6 documents. From them we can learn about the combat path of the person we are looking for. Besides, intelligent search by last name gives us the opportunity to see those documents that, due to annoying spelling errors, could be forever lost.
A typical example of a mistake in spelling a surname. The service, unique in its capabilities, allows you to visually see the combat path of the fought on the example of modern electronic cards, which are included in modern life everywhere. Using the example of the same person, we can trace his entire military path from the place of conscription in the Kezhemsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the Victory in the war in 1945.
The combat path of a soldier on the map. Memory of the People: Authentic Documents of the Second World War
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- Second hit. The defeat of the Germans in the Right-Bank Ukraine 02/01/1944-03/31/1944
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- Offensive and defensive battles in the Lyuban direction 01/07/1942-06/28/1942
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Troops 2 beats. And, having captured a bridgehead on the western bank of the river. Volkhov, broke through the enemy defenses, advancing 70 km, by 22.2 they reached the line Apraksin Bor, Korkino, st. Eglino, (claim.) Nikulkino, (claim.) Guzi, Mal. Suede. Later, as a result of enemy flank attacks, 2 beats. And she was surrounded, continuing to fight until 28.6. Troops 54 A, having launched an offensive on 16.2, advanced 25 km to 29.3. In the future, they, having no success, entrenched themselves at the turn of (claim.) Makaryevskaya Hermitage, (claim.) Didvino, Dubovik […]
- East Pomeranian offensive operation 02/10/1945-31/03/1945
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- Operations of the North-Western Front against the Demyansk group of Germans 02/13/1942-05/14/1942
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Good day everyone!
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 after all, 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 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).
The card itself displays quite a lot of information per person: rank, place of conscription, place of service, date of the feat (if any), archival documents on the award, registration card, photo of the 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 data 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 Databank.
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 held a unique work, as a result of which you can use help system of global importance!
The data used to populate 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 site, enter in the search fields all the information that you know. 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 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 huge base data 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.
