Russia

RUSSIAN MILITARY

The Memorial databank is a website of information about those who died defending Russia during the Great Patriotic War and post-war period. It was founded by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2007. The website contains up to 17 million digital copies of documents and 20 million personal record of the Red Army losses in the Great Patriotic War. Access to the records is free and unlimited. Currently, there are the names of one million war prisoners although German records indicate there were over 5 million Soviet citizens in captivity. There are over 5 million records for soldiers who died, went missing or became prisoners of war. The website does not require registration. Information includes: full name, birthdate, or birth year, place of birth, date and place of recruitment, last place of service, military rank and reason service ended. Records may be saved as .jpg or pdf's. A guide to use the Memorial databank without knowing Russian at Finding Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family website.

Memory of the People - website for searching soldiers participating in the Great War. A guide to use the Memory of the People website.

The Movement - website for searching WW2 Veterans of the Russian Army

Feat of the People

The First World War 1914-1918

Links to free databases on the Finding Lost Russian and Ukrainian Family website

Photographs of Heroes of the Great War

Steve Morse's Front End to Database of Russia's Fallen

For those who are not conversant in Russian, use a translation service such as Google Translate