OBD Memorial. [Internet resource] (ID: 33350)
Authorship or Source:
OBD Memorial.
Year:
[2008]
Title or Main Description:
OBD Memorial. [Internet resource]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Moscow, Russia]
Type of Work:
HTML document with searchable database
Alternate or Series Title:
- Obobshchennyj elektronnyj bank dannikh: sovetskikh voinov, pogibshikh i propavshikh bez vecti v gody Velikoj Otechestbennoj vojny i v poslevoennyj period.
- Memorial.
Provenance:
Data chiefly derived from wartime records held by the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Podolsk, but also from other sources. Further information about this project and its sources can be found (in Russian) at http://www.obd-memorial.ru/proj.shtm.
Keywords:
- Soviet Union --Armed Forces --Registers.
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krest´ianskaia Krasnaia Armiia. --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Registers of dead --Soviet Union.
- Prisoners of war --Soviet Union --Registers.
- World War, 1939-1945 --Prisoners and prisons, German --Registers.
Abstract:
Searchable database of the names of Soviet prisoners of war registered by the German Wehrmacht. Part of the OBD Memorial website at http://www.obd-memorial.ru/.
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in Russian.
- "The OBD Memorial is a project by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to scan and make available online data on all Soviet defenders of the Motherland who were killed or were missing in action during the Great Patriotic War and afterwards. The project was launched in November 2006 and the online database was opened for the public access on March 31, 2007. The main sources of information are funds of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (TsAMO) and funds of Military-Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of Russia, including declassified ones. Of those TsAMO documents, ones related to Soviet prisoners of war are documents originated from Germany, and they are scanned as a part of a German-Russian project named Soviet Prisoners of War, that is funded by the government of Germany. Additional sources are the digital version of Book of Memory for Arkhangelsk Oblast; printed Books of Memory for Kaliningrad Oblast and Kaluga Oblast (19 volumes).[1] Physically scanning work is performed by the Center for Scanning and Retroconversion 'Electronic Archive'. The Union of Search Detachments of Russia also participates in the project. As of December 19, 2007 9,372,000 sheets of documents with 18,900,000 entries were scanned and made available online."--Excerpt from the Wikipedia article "OBD Memorial" found online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD_Memorial (Accesed: 17 March 2008).
- An "English Front End to Database of Russia's Fallen" by Stephen P. Morse, which will allow for easier searching of this database by those who cannot speak Russian can be found at http://stevemorse.org/russian/ussrmil.html.
- Romanized catalog record.
- Last accessed: 17 March 2008.
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