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Information resources for use in conducting archival research work

📚 Information resources of the global Internet and other information sources that help in conducting archival research work

Name of information resource	URL (address)	Content
🇷🇺 RF Consolidated database on defenders of the Fatherland, killed and missing in action during the Great Patriotic War, “Memorial”	http://www.obd-memorial.ru	Contains copies of documents on irrecoverable losses of Red Army units and formations with named lists of the killed and missing (indicating the location of the primary burial).
🇷🇺 RF Electronic document bank “People’s feat in the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945”	www.podvignaroda.ru	Contains information about soldiers awarded Soviet honors (orders and numbered medals “For Courage” and “For Battle Merit”), copies of award proposals with descriptions of the feat and other documents.
🇷🇺 RF Portal “Memory of the People”	www.pamyat-naroda.ru	Developed from previously implemented Ministry of Defense of Russia projects OBD “Memorial” and “People’s feat” into a single project. Contains battle operation plans with maps and diagrams, an interactive map of military graves (over 30,000 worldwide, except the USA), information on losses and awards of soldiers and officers of the First World War.
🇩🇪 DE Documentation Center – research institution of the Union of Saxon Memorials in memory of victims of political terror, Dresden	www.dokst.ru	Contains a database of Soviet prisoners of war from World War II who were in POW camps or labor battalions, mainly located on the territory of the Reich.
🇷🇺 RF “Combat actions of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War”	www.bdsa.ru	Composition of the Red Army (divisions and armies), operations, tactical‑technical data on weapons and military equipment, battle maps, combat reports, NKO orders, SovInform bureau summaries, library, military songs, front letters, lists of POWs and other information.
🇷🇺 RF Thematic portal “Soldier.ru”	www.soldat.ru	Contains directories “Postal stations of the RKKA” for identifying a military unit by field post number, a substantive section “Search technology” with an interesting article "How to determine a serviceman’s fate".
🇷🇺 RF Site “Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army”	www.rkka.ru	Subordination (composition) of Red Army units and formations, thematic library, martyrologies, Decrees of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, NKC resolutions, NKO orders, battle maps, structure of military administration bodies, units and formations.
🇷🇺 RF Project of the Russian newspaper “Stars of Victory”	www.rg.ru/zvezdy_pobedy	Named database of unawarded honors from the Great Patriotic War period.
🇧🇾 BY Cultural institution “Vitebsk Regional Museum of Hero of the Soviet Union Minay Filippovich Shmyrev”	http://shmyrev.museum.by/	Contains databases “Memory Book of the districts of Vitebsk region” and “Military graves of the districts of Vitebsk region”.
🇧🇾 BY Belarusian Red Cross Society: 35 K. Marx St., 220030, Minsk	info@redcross.by	Support for the search service to locate missing persons and restore family ties among family members separated by armed conflicts; search (confirmation of a military burial) of those killed abroad.
🇧🇾 BY Official website of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus	www.narb.by	Types of requests on the site: about participation in partisan and underground movements on the territory of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War; about dekulakization, deprivation of voting rights, resettlement; about awarding orders and medals for labor merits, as well as for large families; about being in places of forced detention on occupied territory of Belarus and in European countries during the Great Patriotic War; about awarding orders and medals for participation in the Great Patriotic War; about being on occupied territory of Belarus; about being in forced labor on the territory of Belarus and in European countries during the Great Patriotic War; about repressions and rehabilitation (based on the database “Information on unjustly repressed citizens of Belarus”)
🇧🇾 BY Database “Belarusian Partisans”	www.partizany.by	Search for participants of the partisan movement and underground activity in Belarus.

Belarusian villages, burned during the Great Patriotic War