Thursday, August 22, 2013

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In runet will be new data on WWII soldiers

In runet will be new data on WWII soldiers

The corporation ELARA held a press event on technologies for identifying and compiling information about the Great Patriotic War. As part of the preparation for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Russia begin work to find the unknown heroes of World War II and disclosure of their names. The relevant order the government gave Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Russian org. Committee "Victory". The sources of information used to identify and summarize the information about the war are the documents stored in the archives of the military. Work on the discovery and widespread access to these documents is already underway.

Experts ELARA Corporation, Marketing Director Pavel Plotnikov and technical project manager Victor Tumarkin, told reporters technologies create OBD Memorial and "Feat of people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." - E-Resources of the Ministry of Defense. Portals are electronic banks data and archival documents of the dead and missing, and the award of affairs of the Great Patriotic War. It is through these resources all Russian Internet users are looking for information and documents about the fate of their loved ones - participants in the war. To create electronic databases and documents accumulated considerable effort and resources - the Ministry of Defense, military and government archives and the company that digitizes documents and extracts data for search.

In the OBD Memorial introduced more than 19 million pages of documents on the losses and the graves of the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense funds, the Central Naval Archive, the Russian State Military Archive, state and regional ¬ tional archives and more than 29 million records on the personalities of dead and missing and 10 million records from the Books of Remembrance. The portal "Feat of people published descriptions of more than 12 million feats of funds and TsAMO TSVMA impressed by awards. Currently, the first phase of the project. But the popularity of resources does not fall: daily OBD Memorial is visited by over 26,000 people, and "The feat of the people" - more than 12,000. Artist projects ELARA Corporation, has received more than 50,000 votes and feedback from the citizens of the different countries attending resources.

Therefore, work on filling in documents and data resources will continue. Preserving the memory of important events in Russian and world history - the goal of another project ELARA - "Calendar of Victory." The project is non-commercial and is implemented entirely on the initiative of the company. The work conducted by employees of corporation, which, together with museums, archives and libraries have been searching for obscure and unknown to the general public information about the fighting on the Soviet-German front.

The actual material "Calendar of victory" is a description of the battles interesting articles from front-line newspapers, stories about the deeds and fates of individuals, the military folklore (songs, poems, anecdotes), photographs and illustrated materials (posters, pictures from newspapers). One of the main sources of information were OBD Memorial and "Feat of the people."
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