Register of World War 2 Starodubtsev Nikolay. Nikolai Vladimirovich Stefanovich: poetry

V.V. Bibikov

Remember by name.
Electronic database “Alphabetical lists of losses of lower ranks 1914-1918.”
Project of the Union for the Revival of Genealogical Traditions (SVRT)

The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War will be celebrated in the middle of this year.

The First World War is one of the most widespread armed conflicts in human history. Before that, it was called the “Great War”, “Second Patriotic War”. And I remember well the words of my grandmother, who called her “German.” In Soviet historiography, the war was considered “unjust and aggressive” and before the outbreak of World War II it was called nothing less than “imperialist.”

As a result of the war, four empires ceased to exist: Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and German.

The participating countries lost more than 10 million people in soldiers killed, about 12 million civilians killed and about 55 million people were wounded.

It is known that during that war, about 15.5 million soldiers were mobilized in the Russian Empire. Of these, about 1.7 million were killed, about 3.8 million were wounded, and almost 3.5 million were captured.

Often, when studying the history of our huge country, we perfectly remember the dates and events that took place in it over many centuries, without thinking at all that all these events were directly related to the fate of our ancestors. The history of a country and society is made up of the stories and destinies of many individual people. Studying the history of one’s family, knowing one’s roots, one’s pedigree helps to realize the importance of each individual person, allows one to feel one’s belonging to a family and clan, acts as a kind of connecting link, and prevents the disunity and alienation of people in the modern world.

That is why SVRT, an organization engaged in the promotion of genealogy, considered it its duty on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War to restore the names of ordinary soldiers - heroes of the Great War.

The idea of systematizing the losses of lower ranks in the First World War came to us back in 2010. From that moment on, the search began for documents where this data would be reflected.

According to available information, lists of losses compiled during the First World War are now stored in regional archives in the funds of provincial boards. They are also available in the collections of the largest libraries in Russia.

About two years ago, these lists began to be posted on the electronic resources of the Russian State Library and the Tsarskoye Selo online library. There were also enthusiasts who began processing the lists, but most of them were engaged in sampling only for a specific district, at best a province, or the processed lists were subject to various kinds of conditions limiting free access to them.

Seeing this state of affairs, the Union for the Revival of Genealogical Traditions decided to optimize all publicly available lists and make them available to everyone. The work was based on the alphabetization of lists for the territories of the Russian Empire. This principle of processing lists allows you to quickly search for the person you are looking for. We first turned to these lists in August 2012, and since August 2013, the project “The First World War, 1914-1918” began to be systematically implemented. Alphabetical lists of losses of lower ranks.”

We began to form a team of volunteer helpers for this project, and volunteers who wanted to help in its implementation began to actively join us. The project was headed by SVRT member Nikolai Ivanovich Chernukhin, a doctor living in the Stavropol Territory, on whose shoulders the main work of implementing the project fell.

Currently, the project is working in full force, the lists are being actively processed and posted on the SVRT website for free access. 59 volunteers are participating in the project: these are both members of our Union and simply people living in our country and abroad, united by a common goal.

Thanks to the active participation of such volunteers as Bogatyrev V.I., Gavrilchenko P.V., Efimenko T.D., Kalenov D.M., Kravtsova E.M., Myasnikova N.A., Naumova E.E., Shchennikov A. N. and many others, the project has practical content and is nearing completion.

At the moment, all lists found in the public domain have been sorted out and are being worked on. Of the 97 territories on the lists, 96 territories have already been processed and posted on our website. The formed database already contains information about more than one million people of lower ranks, and each of us can now look for our relatives there.

The lists posted on the websites of the previously mentioned libraries contain information about approximately 1 million people, and in total about 1.8 million people were taken into account.

Unfortunately, not all lists are freely available, but only about half, but work continues, including searching for missing information.

People are already beginning to use our findings, and samples for the relevant territories are being posted on regional websites.

We welcome any help, including providing us with the missing lists. Elena Kravtsova and Andrey Gorbonosov helped us and are helping us with this. Some of the lists were provided by Boris Alekseev.

The actual results of the project can be found on the SVRT website.

All volunteers who have already shown practical results are noted with gratitude by the SVRT Board, some of them were awarded SVRT Badges of the III degree for their selfless and noble work. At the end of the project, the most active participants will be nominated for orders and medals of the Russian Imperial House.

I would like to present our project with the help of a small electronic presentation of scans from the SVRT website. So,

Frame 1. Screensaver of the project from the SVRT website.

Frame 2. On the main page of our website there are buttons for the largest SVRT projects, among them there is a button with the image of a gallant soldier during the war of 1914-1918.

Frame 3. By clicking on this button we are taken to the site page dedicated to this project.

Frame 4. Here we see a brief summary of the project, a list of project participants by name (site visitors should know who prepared the lists of losses for the work). Next is an alphabet of letters: by clicking on one of them, you can get to the page on which the provinces are located, the name of which begins with the corresponding letter. Just below the alphabet is a reminder that the territorial division of the Russian Empire is not in all cases identical to the modern one. For people involved in genealogy, this is an obvious thing, but for the rest of the Internet users it is not at all true.

Frame 5. By clicking, for example, on the letter “O” we see three provinces at once: Olonetsk, Orenburg and Oryol. Next, you should click in the corresponding province on the letter with which the desired surname begins.

Frame 6. Now we get to the pivot table. The table contains several columns with persons corresponding to the corresponding letter. Column names: title, full name, religion, marital status, county, parish (settlement), reason for departure, date of departure, number of the published list and page in the list.

Frame 8. Why did a person end up on the list of casualties twice? From the list data it follows that on May 31, 1915 he was wounded, but left in service, and on July 16 of the same year it is recorded that he was wounded and apparently sent to the hospital. I easily found his potential father, Stepan Yakovlevich, in my database. Having compared the dates of birth of the hero’s sisters, brothers, and nephews, I understood why he was not included in the family tree earlier. Georgy Stefanovich probably did not return to his native village after the war, and there could be several reasons. Perhaps the “whirlwind of the revolution” radically changed the person’s fate, or perhaps he was mortally wounded, which is why he was not included in the 1917 election lists, which I looked through in the archive. Now I know that Georgy Stefanovich Bibikov is my second cousin, a participant in that “forgotten war.” This kind of indirect genealogical information can be obtained from these lists, i.e. these lists are a good addition to the well-known OBD-Memorial database, which we all actively use. But, of course, the main goal of working on the lists is to list by name the undeservedly forgotten heroes of the First World War of 1914-1918.

Frame 9. The SVRT forum page is presented. You can follow the discussion of the project, its developments, additional information on the project, as well as participate in discussions, conversations and debates on our forum.

Frame 10. The most active participants in the project are awarded with our award, the “SVRT Project Participant” badge. The badge is approved in three degrees and is awarded for each project separately. The picture shows the 3rd and 2nd degrees of the sign. Currently, 20 project participants have been awarded this badge.

Join our project, remember your great-grandfathers!

Bibikov V.V. — President of the Union for the Revival of Genealogical Traditions, member of the Public Council at the Federal Archival Agency, member of the Council of the Russian Genealogical Federation, full member of the Historical and Genealogical Society in Moscow.

S. Golomyskino, Novonikolayevskaya Governorate - March 31, Novosibirsk Region) - assistant platoon commander of the 7th rifle company of the 227th rifle regiment of the 175th Ural-Kovel rifle division of the 47th army of the 1st Belorussian Front, senior sergeant - at the time submissions for the Order of Glory, 1st degree.

Biography

Born on December 15, 1924 in the village of Golomyskino (now Toguchinsky district of the Novosibirsk region). After graduating from school, he worked on a collective farm.

In August 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. Since March of the same year at the front. From the first day until the Victory, he fought as part of the 227th Infantry Regiment of the 175th Infantry Division. The combat biography of the Red Army soldier Starodubtsev began at the Kursk Bulge.

Scout Starodubtsev earned his first award, the medal “For Courage,” in battles on Right Bank Ukraine in January 1944. Six months later, in the battles near Kovel, he received a second medal “For Courage”. By this time, he had been behind enemy lines more than once, participated in many reconnaissance searches, and was wounded twice. He particularly distinguished himself in the battles for the liberation of Poland.

On September 13, 1944, Private Starodubtsev acted as part of a reconnaissance group in the Warsaw suburb of Prague. The fighters, penetrating deep into the city at night, secretly surrounded a large stone house, which the Nazis had turned into a stronghold. They threw grenades at the windows and after a short fight they captured him. In this battle, the scouts destroyed up to a platoon of enemy infantry, and seven opponents were captured. Their actions ensured the advancement of the remaining divisions of the division deeper into the city. By order of the commander of the 175th Infantry Division dated October 5, 1944, private Nikolai Filippovich Starodubtsev was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree, for the courage and bravery shown in battle.

As a result of four days of fighting, Soviet troops captured Prague. Favorable conditions were created for crossing the Vistula and providing assistance to the rebels of Warsaw. The reconnaissance group of the 175th Infantry Division received the task of penetrating behind enemy lines, reconnaissance of its defense system and capturing the “tongue”. On October 10, 1944, the scouts crossed to the western bank of the Vistula and penetrated deep into enemy defenses. Having captured the prisoner, they began to return and went straight to the enemy patrol. In the battle, Starodubtsev destroyed an enemy sentry and a machine gun crew. When the officer, commander of the reconnaissance group, was wounded, Starodubtsev carried him to the eastern bank. Then he returned to the group and covered the retreat. Being wounded, he was the last to leave the enemy-occupied shore. By order of the 47th Army troops of November 1, 1944, private Nikolai Filippovich Starodubtsev was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree, for saving the commander and successfully completing the command’s assignment.

In mid-January 1945, Soviet troops went on the offensive. The Vistula-Oder operation began. On the night of January 16, scouts led by Sergeant Starodubtsev crossed the Vistula across the ice, broke into an enemy trench, and with grenades destroyed four heavy machine guns with crews and about two platoons of enemy infantry. Having taken four prisoners and captured valuable documents, the scouts delivered them to the regiment commander. Then they rushed forward again, deep into the enemy defenses. The main forces of the regiment entered the bridgehead captured by the scouts. From this bridgehead the division began its attack on Warsaw.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 31, 1945, for courage and courage shown in the battles for Warsaw, senior sergeant Nikolai Filippovich Starodubtsev was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree. Became a full holder of the Order of Glory.

In 1945, N.F. Starodubtsev was demobilized. Returned to his homeland. Lived in the village of Zavyalovo, Toguchinsky district, Novosibirsk region. First he worked as a foreman on a collective farm, then as a foreman on a state farm. But soon old wounds opened up and I had to retire. Died on March 31, 1964.

Awarded Orders of Glory of 3 degrees and medals.

Today, anyone has the opportunity to find information about relatives and loved ones who died or disappeared during the Great Patriotic War. Many websites have been created to study documents containing personal data of military personnel during the war. "RG" presents an overview of the most useful of them. Therefore, do not despair if you were unable to find any data about your relatives in the bank of unpresented awards of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta - the search can be continued on other Internet resources.

Database

www.rkka.ru - a directory of military abbreviations (as well as regulations, manuals, 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 the combat situation (by war periods and operations)

Search Engine Websites

www.rf-poisk.ru - official website of the Russian Search Movement

How and where to look?

The “Feat of the People” website is the most complete and up-to-date database on participants in the Great Patriotic War - there is information about almost all soldiers. At the first stage of digitization from 2010 to 2015, 30 million records were made on the awarding of orders and medals “For Courage” and “For Military Merit”, as well as information on 22 million Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees for the 40th anniversary of the Victory, and also 200 thousand archival files with a total volume of 100 million sheets!

Such a huge amount of work was done for the main goal of the project:

The main goals of the project are to perpetuate the memory of all heroes of the Victory, regardless of rank, scale of feat, award status, military-patriotic education of youth using the example of the military exploits of their fathers, as well as creating a factual basis to counter attempts to falsify the history of the War.

There are 3 main search options:

Search for people and their awards
Search for decrees and awards orders
Search data by place and time

To find a person, use the first search option, to do this, open the website http://podvignaroda.mil.ru/ and go to the “People and Awards” tab and enter the last name and first name of the person whose awards you want to find.

To search for decrees and data on the location of military operations, we recommend using another site - “Memory of the People”, which will be discussed below.

If you want to search by award number, you will not be able to do this, because... Award numbers are not indicated in the award documents.

If information about a person’s fate is not known, then the “Feat of the People” website will not suit you, because... it does not contain data on the dead or missing. Such information should be searched on the website www.obd-memorial.ru, trying different spellings of surnames and names because wartime documents may have contained errors in the name or date of birth.

Let us remind you that the initiator of this project is the Department for the Development of Information and Telecommunication Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and technical support is provided by the ELAR company. Thanks to them for this site!

The information is taken from two funds: the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (CA MO) and the Central Naval Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (CVMA).

Memory of the people

Later, a more modern website was opened https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ “Memory of the People” with documents of the Second World War, which has a more pleasant design and, most importantly, more information, maps and historical data.

With the help of the “Memory of the People” portal, it has become even easier to reconstruct the military path of your grandfather, find documents about injuries and awards.

The People's Memory project was implemented in accordance with the decision of the Russian Victory Organizing Committee of July 2013, supported by the instructions of the President and the Decree of the Russian Government in 2014. The project provides for the publication on the Internet of archival documents and documents about the losses and awards of soldiers and officers of the First World War, the development of the projects previously implemented by the Russian Ministry of Defense about the Second World War OBD Memorial and Feat of the People into one project - Memory of the People.

On the page https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ops/ you can familiarize yourself with the plans of 226 operations with detailed diagrams on the map. Each page about the operation contains the names of commanders and numbers of military units, as well as a description of the result of the operation.

Figure 1 - Modern map of combat operations during the Second World War.

On the page https://pamyat-naroda.ru/memorial/ you can find military graves in your city. Just enter the name of the city and click the “Find” button. In total, it contains information about 30,588 burials around the world, except the United States.

Figure 2 - Military graves indicating first and last names.

The page about the burial contains information about its condition (good, bad, excellent), type of burial, number of graves, number of known and unknown buried. Also available on the page is a list of those buried with names and dates of birth and death.