Search for the dead in the Second World War 1941 1945 How to establish the fate of a serviceman who died or went missing during the Great Patriotic War

You tell me: “Why look?

Those who were killed here have long disappeared,

Gone are those that might have been waiting for them,

And all of them have long been forgotten ... "

From the song of the searchers

Almost every family in our country has relatives who went missing during the Great Patriotic War. Some scattered information is stored in the family, someone has preserved photographs. But when you see the name of a loved one in the report of the Memorial base, for example, for some reason you more clearly imagine a train under fire, trenches ... And it seems that if you find out at least something else, your soldier will not be so lonely in his unknown grave. And you hope that the soldiers who did not return will not be left without prayers.

About where and how to look for information about the burial place of a soldier of the Great Patriotic War, "Foma" was told by Dmitry Alexandrovich Belov, Ph.D. ".

STEP 1. GETTING STARTED

The fastest way to find your relative who died in the Great Patriotic War is the Memorial generalized data bank, the base of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (TsAMO):

For this:

1. We go to the website of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which hosts the most complete electronic database in our country of those killed in the Second World War: www.obd-memorial.ru

2. Fill in the columns "Surname", "Name", "Patronymic", "Year of birth" of your deceased relative:

3. Ideally, we get a result of several lines with more or less complete information and continue to study the materials in the direction of concretizing the exact burial place.

4. In the surname or name, or in the patronymic, we change the letters, selecting them in such a way as if they were written by an illiterate person or the original document is poorly readable and there are alternative reading options. And perhaps you will stumble upon additional documents from the archive database.

At this stage of the search, the last name, first name, patronymic, year of birth, preferably the title, is enough to start. If he is Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, then, of course, it will be more difficult. You need to be persistent to make sure that this is exactly the person you need, you will need details - the full name of the wife, mother, the name of the village, the city from where he was called up, the place of birth (in accordance with the administrative-territorial division of the USSR in the pre-war years - approx. ed.).

It is worth paying special attention to the fourth point. There are indeed silly spelling errors in the database. My great-grandfather's name was Andrei Kirillovich. I wrote "Kirillovich" as a normal person with two l, and then I thought that not everyone knows how Kirillovich is spelled ...

Kirillovich scored with one "l" and immediately found a burial place. Also Filippovich - maybe Felippovich, and with one "p", and so on. It is also better to try to change the letters in both the surname and the first name in case they were written by an illiterate person or the original document is poorly readable. Such moments must be taken into account.

Ideally, the result of your search should be a document about the place of burial of a relative and information in which military unit (army, division or regiment) he fought.

If there is no information, one can hope that the search teams that are looking for and burying the remains of soldiers will find something. If the search engines managed to find someone, they turn to the military registration and enlistment office, looking for relatives themselves.

But you can continue to search on your own. In this case, it is necessary to collect the maximum possible amount of information in order to start a qualitatively new stage of the search.

What can help us with this?

STEP 2. COLLECTING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Have the letters survived?

The most important thing in letters is the number of the field postal station (FPS) on the stamp of the envelope. It can be used to set the number of a division, regiment, etc.

A powerful resource: a lot of documents on military topics, memoirs, collections. If the number of the division, the area of battles is known, then it is possible to find a description at least in general terms.

Database "Feat of the People"

TsAMO project.

This is a database where there is information about soldiers awarded medals. The database is not yet complete, not all documents have been scanned yet.

This resource has several databases on hospitals. Dial the hospital number, press Enter and see which division he served.

And there are many other reference books on the types of troops, epaulettes, weapons.

But the most valuable thing on the Soldat.ru forum is http://soldat.ru/forum/

If you register on it, you can get advice from completely unfamiliar historians, specialists, anyone who is fond of searching, military enlistment office workers.

To register at the top of this site (see the picture above in the lower right corner), you need to click the "Register" button. Next, you need to fill out the registration form.

Then create a topic (it's better to name it briefly, for example, "No. __-th rifle division. I'm looking for a relative"). After that, your request can be read by everyone who visits this site. Do not doubt! There will be enough such unfamiliar and caring people. Everyone will help you with the information they have. Some will answer, advise, consult, others will recommend sites, scan the documents you need, excerpts from books, etc.

Other resources

There are many more resources that publish interviews of veterans, biographies. But it should be borne in mind that these sources, as a rule, are of no historical value either for the researcher or for someone who wants to use this material in a search.

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.ru

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.

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 on 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;

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 body of state power - the State Defense Committee (GKO, 1941-1945) and the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander;

REFERENCE

on the number of servicemen who went missing in the years

Great Patriotic War

To date, the official data on the casualties of the Red Army and the Navy during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 contained in the guide:

“The Great Patriotic War without the stamp of secrecy. The book of losses. The latest reference edition /,. – M.: Veche, 2010. – 384 p.”,

which is a development of an earlier edition:

“Secret stamp removed: Losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR in wars, hostilities and military conflicts: Statistical study / Under the general. Ed. . - M .: Military Publishing, 1993.

In this statistical study, the number of missing and captured Soviet soldiers is summed up. Of these, a significant number were prisoners of war. The section "Irretrievable losses" gives the following figures according to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

3396.4 thousand people went missing and were captured (according to the reports of the troops and data from the repatriation authorities).

Unaccounted losses of the first months of the war: 1162.6 thousand people died, went missing in combat operations, when there were no reports from the fronts and armies (identified according to individual archival documents, including those of the German command).

Total: the number of missing and captured Soviet military personnel is determined in the amount of 4 million 559 thousand people.

939.7 thousand people were called up in the liberated territory and sent to the troops from among the military personnel who had previously been surrounded or missing.

Returned from captivity at the end of the war (according to the repatriation authorities) 1836 thousand people.

Total: excluded from the number of losses: 2 million 775.7 thousand people.

Including did not return from captivity (died, died, emigrated to other countries) 1 million 783.3 thousand people.

Thus, the number of missing people can be defined as 1 million 783.3 thousand people.

According to German data, 673 thousand people died in captivity. Of the remaining 1110.3 thousand people, according to domestic data, more than half also died (died) in captivity. Thus, a total of 4,059,000 Soviet servicemen were captured, and about 500,000 died in battle, although according to reports from the fronts, they were counted as missing.

The above figures, of course, cannot be considered final, with the exception of reliably recorded military personnel who returned from captivity and were again called up.

The total number of citizens of the USSR who went missing during the years of the Great Patriotic War is much higher, since the number of military losses does not include the loss of the civilian population, which is very difficult to calculate due to the imperfection of domestic statistics.

Many independent researchers believe that the real number of missing servicemen is much higher than the official one. Indirectly, this is evidenced by the analysis of the regional Books of Memory, where about half of the citizens drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (since 1943 - the Soviet Army) and who did not return from the war are marked as missing. The total irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces are defined in the reference book mentioned above at 8 million 668.4 thousand people, and in total 29 million 574.9 thousand people were drafted into the active army.

Other data on the number of missing people were announced by the President of the Russian Federation at a meeting of the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory" in St. Petersburg in January 2009:

· more than 2.4 million people are still missing;

· The names of 6 million soldiers out of 9.5 million who are in registered mass graves, of which there are about 47,000 in our country and abroad, are unknown.

These data show that the total irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces in the Great Patriotic War amount to approximately 13 million people, which is much higher than the figure of 8 million 664.8 thousand people from the reference book “The Great Patriotic War without a secrecy stamp. The book of losses. The latest reference edition /, etc. - M., 2010 ", prepared by the author's group of the General Staff and the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (now - the Office of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (for perpetuating the memory of those who died defending the Fatherland).

All this indicates that at the moment there is no more or less accurate and reasonable number of servicemen who went missing in the Great Patriotic War. This leaves a wide scope for further research on this issue.

It is the missing soldiers and officers, as well as the soldiers who were not buried properly, but taken into account in the losses, that are the main object of activity of both the Russian search movement as a whole and our organization. These are several million people whose military fate is still unknown. Work on the fields of past battles of the Great Patriotic War will be enough for the search engines of our country for many years to come.

Thirty-six-year-old conscript

There is hardly a family in our country that the events of 1941-1945. would have bypassed. It so happened that among our close relatives, only the brother of my great-grandmother Anna Ivanovna Suetnova, my grandmother's uncle, Alexander Ivanovich Titenkov, visited the front. According to official data, he went missing in November 1941. Grandmother Lyudmila Mikhailovna Kiryukhina (Suetnova) was seven years old in the first year of the war and, of course, she remembers little, and only one photograph has been preserved in the family archive, in which Alexander Ivanovich completely small.

Having become a historian, I decided to at least find out something about how the front-line fate of a relative developed. A variety of Internet resources provided great assistance in the search, including the generalized data bank "Memorial" 1 and the database "Memory of the People" 2, which provides access to the materials of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (TsAMO, Podolsk). The Documentation Center of the association "Saxon Memorials in Memory of the Victims of Political Terror" (Dresden) also contains numerous lists of Red Army soldiers who were captured by the Germans during the war, and provides free information about captured citizens of the USSR 3 .

A.I. Titenkov was born in 1905 in the village of Pochinki, Gorky Region. He was the third child in the family, his mother Anna Mikhailovna was left a widow early, her husband died hunting before the revolution. The elder brother Seraphim worked as a telegraph operator at the post office, he tragically died, shooting himself, as they said, from unhappy love. My sister Anna Ivanovna, my maternal great-grandmother, was one year older than Alexander. When Alexander Ivanovich matured, he moved to live in the city of Balakhna, Gorky Region, and got married. On July 21, 1941, at the age of 36, he was called to the front by the Balakhna RVC. The further fate is not known for certain. Therefore, I tried to at least partially shed light on the events that took place, the witness and participant of which he most likely was.

Last letter - August 23, 1941

In the 4th volume of the Book of Memory of the Nizhny Novgorod region there is a short entry: "Alexander Ivanovich Titenkov, born 1905, Balakhna, Nizhny Novgorod region. Private. Missing, November 1941." Balakhna was erroneously indicated as the place of birth, most likely due to the fact that before the draft, Alexander Ivanovich lived there with his family and was drafted from there. The second document available in the archives associated with the name of A.I. Titenkov, - a questionnaire-appeal of his wife Nina Petrovna Titenkova, dated January 30, 1947, to the Balakhna RVC of the Gorky Region in order to find out the fate of her husband. The questionnaire made it possible to slightly supplement the information about A.I. Titenkov. Firstly, this is information about the combat formation in which he served - the 831st artillery regiment. Secondly, there is the date of the last letter - August 23, 1941, and the military address on the envelope - "Active Army, 831 a.p., p/n 670". Field post station N 0670 was intended for the 279th Rifle Division (as well as several other divisions), which included the 831st Artillery Regiment.

The big question is the line "Position held in the K[red] army]," it says "degasser". However, according to the list of military registration specialties of the Red Army, approved on November 4, 1937, 4 units of degassing chemists belong to chemical troops, but not to artillery. In this case, several assumptions can be made. Perhaps the questionnaire indicates a profession obtained before the war. For privates, a military registration specialty is usually assigned on the basis of an existing education or after completing training in an educational unit 5. The questionnaire could also contain an error, for example, it is quite easy to confuse the position of a degasser with a rangefinder, which refers specifically to artillery. In any case, the 279th rifle division, which included the 831st artillery regiment, also included the 360th separate chemical defense company at the time of its formation.

A month later - to the front!

Other documents related to the name of A.I. Titenkov, could not be found, so I tried to trace the further combat path of his unit.

Unfortunately, there are relatively few studies on the 279th Rifle Division of the first formation. Noteworthy is the material of P.I. Goncharova and I.A. Novoselova 6 . The 279th Rifle Division began to be formed according to GKO Decree No. 48 of July 8, 1941 in Vladimir and Gorky. At the time of its recruitment, the division included three rifle and artillery regiments, anti-tank and anti-aircraft artillery battalions, reconnaissance, sapper, automobile and medical battalions, a communications battalion, a chemical protection company, a mobile bakery and field mail 7 . The formation took place in Gorky, Dzerzhinsk and Arzamas, and the headquarters of the division was in the Gorky Kremlin.

Already on August 4, 1941 (less than a month from the date of formation), the division received an order to be sent to the front. First, they traveled under their own power from the village of Mulino through the Ilyino railway station to Gorky to the Sortirovochnaya station. According to P.I. Goncharov and I.A. Novoselova, “we spent the night in the city, on August 5 we got up at 5 o’clock in the morning, plunged into the train at 12 o’clock in the afternoon. in Lyudinovo, arrived on August 8, 1941." 8 . After unloading, the division received an order to make a forced march to the Desna River in the Zhukovka-Dubrovka area and take up defense along the eastern bank. As of August 30, 1941, the personnel numbered 11,454 (according to other sources - 10,518 people) 9 . The division became part of the strike force of the 50th Army on the Bryansk Front.

First losses

831st Artillery Regiment, in which A.I. Titenkov, is mentioned only once in the book by F.D. Pankov "Firing lines. The combat path of the 50th Army in the Great Patriotic War" at the very beginning of hostilities at the end of August 1941: "During the shelling of the firing position of the 2nd battery of the 831st artillery regiment of the 279th rifle division, enemy artillery caught fire gunpowder in shell casings in one of the charging boxes. Gun number Private V. I. Lzhinin, risking his life, pulled out a tray with hot charges, preventing an explosion "10. Despite the fact that I could not find the regiment's documents in TsAMO (they are only for the period 1944-1945), I tried to trace any mention of artillery units in the division's documentation - combat reports and operational reports of the headquarters for the period from August 13 to September 6 1941

For example, according to combat report N3 dated August 13, 1941 at 8:30 am: "Units of the 279th division at 18.00 12.8 went to the areas indicated by them and began to accept defensive structures in their areas ..." Further reports report on the participation of the division in combat operations: the work of artillery, tank reconnaissance of the enemy, the rescue of a landed aircraft by our scouts, the first losses ...

The summaries say:

279th division destroyed

The counterattack of the Soviet troops was scheduled for the morning of September 2 in the general direction of Roslavl, the division received an order from the commander of the 50th Army to advance in the Vyazovsk-Korobki sector. Less than a day was allotted for preparing the offensive, which had a detrimental effect on the results. Two regiments of the division crossed the Desna and captured Devochkino, then Golubey and Berestok were liberated, and on September 4 they captured the Rekovichi junction, Malaya and Staraya Salyn. All this time, numerous counterattacks were made by the enemy, and the division suffered heavy losses.

The troops of the 3rd and 50th armies, by order of the front commander, entrenched themselves at the line reached and went on the defensive on September 15. The division held the defense along the Desna River 12. On September 17, the last documents of the division headquarters available at TsAMO are dated. It is noteworthy that order No. 17 of the headquarters of the 50th Army of the Bryansk Front dated September 24, 1941 recorded the facts of concealment by individual commanders of information about enemy counterattacks and losses incurred.

Further events in October - November 1941 developed tragically for the 50th Army and the division that was part of it. In just two days of the offensive in early October, the Nazis broke through a 60-kilometer gap and broke through almost 100 km in depth, on the right wing of the Bryansk Front, the defense was also broken through, which allowed the Germans to go to the rear. The particularly difficult situation of the 279th Rifle Division was due to the fact that the enemy managed to dismember it. The surviving units and subunits were withdrawn to the eastern bank of the Desna 13 . Already on October 4, the enemy developed an offensive and by the morning of October 6 went to the rear of the army, capturing Bryansk on the same day. Communication between the 50th Army and the front headquarters was lost. Since October 8, the division, being surrounded, broke through with battles, information about the position of the units was not received. On October 16, the strength of the division totaled about one and a half thousand people 15 . According to operational report No. 125 of the OKH dated October 18, 1941: "During the destruction of the 50th Army, 55,105 people were taken prisoner. 279 SDs were destroyed" 16 .

Others took their place

Nevertheless, at the end of October, the remaining units of the 50th Army continued to fight their way out of the encirclement to the area of the city of Belev. On October 20, the 50th Army entrenched itself on the occupied lines and fought in the Nikolo-Gastun-Belev area, while the 279th Division defended the approaches to the crossings on the western bank of the Oka River. On October 26, the troops of the Bryansk Front continued to retreat with battles in an easterly direction, no data was received on the division. By the end of October, only a few left the encirclement: the 1005th rifle regiment on October 23 consisted of only 843 people, of which 109 were senior and middle commanders, soldiers and commanders of the defeated 1001st and 1003rd rifle regiments also joined it 18.

The only surviving in the entire division and understaffed 1005th rifle regiment on October 30 was in the reserve of the army commander. On November 1, 1941, the division as a combat unit no longer existed. On November 10, the Bryansk Front was disbanded, and on November 17, the division itself was disbanded. It is this date that can explain the official response of the Balakhna RVC to an inquiry about the fate of A.I. Titenkova: "Got missing in November 1941". The remaining personnel were turned to resupply the 154th Rifle Division, which later became the 47th Guards Rifle Division. The 279th division was re-formed and from September 29, 1941, until the end of the war, it participated in battles with the fascist invaders, going down in history as the 279th Lisichanskaya Red Banner Rifle Division 19 .

Not on the list...

Having thus traced, as far as possible, the combat path of the division and the regiment that was part of it, it is possible with a certain degree of certainty to assume the possible unenviable fate of Private A.I. Titenkov. According to his wife's information, written communications ceased on August 23, Alexander Ivanovich probably wrote and sent the letter even before arriving at the front. According to the operational reports of the headquarters on August 27, 105 fighters of the division were listed as missing. But he is not on those lists. As it is not in the lists of those who fell into German captivity. The battle flags of all parts of the division have been lost to this day. According to the memoirs of a veteran of the division, Nizhny Novgorod Yu.M. Kopylov, the division lost its battle flag in the Gutovsky forest northeast of Bryansk. The total irretrievable losses of the 50th Army are estimated at about 90,000 men 20 . In recent years, historians of the Bryansk region have been actively searching for burial sites and the remains of dead soldiers. However, about 70% of burials are still nameless.

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2. https://pamyat-naroda.ru
3. http://www.dokst.ru/main/
4. http://rkka.ru/handbook/data/vus.htm
5. http://yasoldat.ru/vus/
6. Goncharov P.I., Novoselova I.A. Combat path of the 279th Infantry Division of the 1st Formation. Nizhny Novgorod, 2013. http://lno52.ru/index/0-171
7. TsAMO RF. List of the General Staff No. 5.
8. Goncharov P.I., Novoselova I.A. Decree. op.
9. Agni L. Bryansk front of the first formation in the light of electronic sources (historical and analytical article). https://www.proza.ru/2014/07/10/690
10. Pankov F.D. Fire lines. The combat path of the 50th Army in the Great Patriotic War. M., 1984. S. 6.
11. Ibid. pp. 8-9.
12. Ibid. pp. 12-13.
13. Ibid. S. 15.
14. Battle near Moscow. Chronicle, facts, people. In 2 books. - M., 2002. Book. 1. S. 265.
15. Trifankov Yu.T., Gavrenkov A.A., Trifankov Ya.Yu. Bryansk Front: 50th Army. "Resseta" and "Khatsun" // Bulletin of the Bryansk University. 2012. No. 2 (2).
16. Ibid. pp. 359-360.
17. Ibid. S. 398.
18. http://newspaper.unitedcommunityvoice.com/index.php?newsid=224
19. Korznikov A.I. Fire roads. Sverdlovsk, 1977.
20. Trifankov Yu.T., Gavrenkov A.A., Trifankov Ya.Yu. Decree. op.

Combat losses of the USSR are counted to the last man

Based on the materials of a long-term statistical study of the combat losses of the Soviet Union, made by the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (USSR-Russia).

In total, taking into account the personnel structure, 34,476.7 thousand people were called up to the Armed Forces of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, including 29,574.9 thousand mobilized. More than 33% of the citizens of the USSR who ever put on their overcoats were in service every year, of which about half (5-6.5 million) were constantly in the army on the Soviet-German front.

The number of fronts operating against the Nazi troops was variable and amounted to a little over 3.0 million people in 1941 and 6.7 million people in 1944.

490,000 women were drafted into the army and navy.

As of July 1, 1945, 11.390.6 thousand people were in the Armed Forces according to the list, 1.046 thousand people were treated in hospitals and 403.2 thousand were on allowance in other departments.

Of the total number of regular military personnel and those drafted into the Armed Forces, 21.7 million people left for various reasons during the war.

#comm#Total losses of the Red Army and the Navy for the entire war with Germany 1941-1945. (including sanitary losses) amount to 29.592.749 people.#/comm#

Including:

Killed and died at the stage of evacuation - 5.177.410;

Died from wounds in hospitals - 1.100.327;

Non-combat irretrievable losses - 540.580;

Missing, captured and unaccounted losses - 4.454.709;

Total total irretrievable losses - 11.273.026. Of these, combat irretrievable losses - 8.668.400.

Sanitary losses with evacuation to the hospital - 18.319.723.

Along with the personnel of the army and navy, other military formations, militias, partisans and underground fighters took part in the hostilities. 40 militia divisions joined the army, 26 of which went through the entire war (more than 2.0 million people joined the army through the people's militia). During the war years, more than 6,000 partisan detachments operated behind enemy lines, in which there were more than 1 million people.

... As a result of generalization and analysis of data from various sources, it was determined that during the years of the war 4,559 thousand Soviet military personnel were missing and captured, which are distributed as follows:

Killed in battle and classified as missing - about 500 thousand;

Returned from captivity after the end of the war - 1.836 thousand;

Were called for the second time in the Armed Forces - 939 thousand.

Thus, about 4,059 thousand military personnel were in German captivity, of which more than 1.2 million were deliberately killed or died as a result of starvation and torture. These figures diverge from the "generally recognized" mythical data, since the Germans counted as "prisoners" all men in the territory of the USSR aged 17 to 55 years. So, according to the General Staff of the Red Army, more than 500 thousand persons liable for military service, called up, but not included in the troops and not included in the lists of units, were captured. Summary data give grounds to talk about the destruction in fascist concentration camps of more than 3.6 million Soviet civilians under the guise of "prisoners of war."

#comm#The total German casualties, including the mobilized male population of Austria, amounted to 13.448 thousand people, 75.1 percent of the number put into service. At the same time, irretrievable losses on the Soviet-German front amounted to 6.923.7 thousand people. #/comm#

Germany's allies (Hungary, Italy, Romania and Finland) irrevocably lost 1,725.8 thousand people on the Soviet-German front. After May 9, 1,284 thousand soldiers and officers of the enemy laid down their arms and surrendered in front of the Soviet troops.

Thus, the human losses of Germany and its allies in the hostilities against the USSR amounted to 8.649.5 thousand people.

According to the "Information Service of Germany" the total number of those buried in the territory of the USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe is 3.226 thousand, including the names of only 2.395 thousand buried soldiers and officers. According to German, very contradictory data (especially for 1945), out of the number of prisoners of war (2.4 million), 1.939 thousand people returned to Germany, 450.6 thousand Germans died in captivity.

According to the Soviet command, the total number of captured military personnel from Germany, according to the NKVD records and name lists, amounted to 3.777.3 thousand people. Of these, over 600 thousand prisoners of various nationalities were released directly at the front.

In addition, various foreign and volunteer formations numbering up to 600 thousand people took part in the war on the side of Germany. The irretrievable losses of the Spanish and Slovak divisions, the French, Belgians and Flemings, the ROA, the OUN, the Baltic and Muslim SS and police units amounted to about 230 thousand people killed.

During the period of hostilities (August-September 1945), the Japanese Kwantung Army lost 83.7 thousand killed and 640.1 thousand captured.

Final data on the losses of the Armed Forces of the USSR in wars, military conflicts and hostilities (1918-1989)

Wars, military conflicts and hostilities: irretrievable combat losses / sanitary losses (respectively):

Civil War 1918-1922: 939.755 / 6.791.783.

The fight against Basmachi 1923-1931: 626 / 867.

Soviet-Chinese conflict of 1929: 187/665.

Military assistance to Spain in 1936-1939. and China in 1937-1939: 353 / no data.

Reflection of Japanese aggression on the lake. Hasan 1938: 989 / 3.279.

Fighting on the river Khalkhin-Gol 1939: 8.931 / 15.952.

Trip to Western Ukraine and Western Belarus: 1.139 / 2.383.

Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940: 126.875 / 264.908.

Great Patriotic War: 8.668.400 / 22.326.905.

War in Korea 1950-1953: 299 / no data.

Events in Hungary 1956: 750 / 1.540.

The entry of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968: 96 / 87.

Border military conflicts with China in the Far East and Kazakhstan in 1969: 60/99.

Provision of military-technical assistance to foreign states 1962-1979: 145 / no data (irretrievable losses in Vietnam - 13 people).

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