Monday, May 4, 2015

Defense Ministry launched a website “Memory of Nation” on the fate of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, May 5 – RIA Novosti. Russian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday opened access to the world’s largest Internet portal “The memory of the people” about the fate of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, told RIA Novosti the head of the military department to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland Vladimir Popov.

According to him, a single electronic database “Memory of Nation” was the development of the previously implemented projects of the Ministry of Defence of World War II “Memorial” and “Feat of the people.”

“All of these resources in the public domain will allow anyone who wishes to learn about the exploits or the fate of their ancestors who died in the war fronts in the twentieth century, to find documents and to make a personal family archives. The single database also contains archival documents and documents of the losses and rewarding soldiers and officers of the First and Second World Wars, “- Popov portal options listed.

” The main purpose of the portal “The memory of the people”, – he said – is restoration of the fate of the war heroes. The portal provides search and burial places of primary documents on the awarding of the passage of life, the victories, the hardships on the battlefield “.

According to Popov, find information about a person can help intelligent search engine that will search in Banks need information from more than 50 million records, tells how to make an inquiry, to help expand the information in the required fields and guide the user to place a call on the map or disposal soldier.

As part of the project “Memory of Nation” held scale work on all the georeference data on place of birth, calling, death, and the last place of service of soldiers and officers, to establish the fate of a single chain of war heroes – from the call to return home, Popov informed.

“This is a huge work of thousands people search for information and structuring of historical maps, “- said the head of department.

According to recent reports, he said,” irretrievable loss of the Red Army during the period of hostilities amounted to more than 8.5 million soldiers and officers. Passports graves contain information about 2 million people.

Portal “Memory of Nation” said Popov, show on the map coordinates of the deaths of millions of unknown heroes. The descendants will be able to find and visit the place of their last days of life, to put new names on the monuments of the dead soldiers and officers to return the memory of the heroism of their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers.

The “Memory of Nation” is implemented by the decision of the Russian organizing committee “Victory “, supported the request of the President and the decision of the Russian government.

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