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As the portal “Search movement of Russia”, you can place your order by filling an online form as well as on the website of the search traffic and the social media accounts – vk.com/rfpoisk and instagram.com/poiskrf.

According to the authors of the project, the mode of self-isolation – a reason to go to the family archives, carefully examine the documents, awards, grandfathers and great-grandfathers that have a home. When filling out the application is important to maximize the inclusion of all known information about the person whose destiny needs to be set: name, year and place of birth, year and place of conscription, last place of service, and so on – all that is known. In addition, the applicant must indicate their contacts to communicate with the search engines.

– In the “Search movement of Russia” are people from all over the country and even from abroad, wishing to learn the fate of their relatives, – said the Executive Secretary of the “Search movement of Russia”, co-Chairman of the Central headquarters of the onf Elena Sanaeva. Since the coronavirus has changed the plans for the spring field season, the search engines have decided to concentrate all forces to assist citizens in establishing the fate of ancestors who took part in the war.

So, due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation was moved the timing of the international military-historical search expedition “Rzhev. Kalinin front”, which was scheduled from 23rd April to the seventh of may. Last year it was attended by more than 500 search engines and volunteers from 27 regions of the country and also from Latvia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Germany. Two weeks of searching near Rzhev (Tver oblast), where in 1942-1943 there were bloody fights, were found the remains of 269 soldiers and 18 medallions, of which 13 managed to read. Found relatives of the three soldiers.

According to the Chairman of the Russian military-historical society Vladimir Medinsky, is the country’s largest camp, where there is mutual learning, development of new technologies, identification of the remains. In 2020 is supposed to gather the best search parties and associations from Russia and also from Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland. And they will definitely going, but only after “all issues related to epidemiological situation”, according to RVIA.

the search Engines continue to identify the victims of the red army and looking for their relatives. For example, the Moscow search party “Obelisk” looking for relatives of Elijah the N. Savrasov, 1899 year of birth, native of the village of Pavlishchevo Prechistenskaya village Danilovsky district of the Yaroslavl region. Before the war he lived in Yaroslavl, on the Avenue Schmidt (now of the City shaft), at No. 17, he worked as a foreman in a tire factory, was married to Anna Lvova. Died of wounds on 30 August 1942��and 292-m the medical battalion of the 17th infantry division and was initially buried in the village Murygino Temkinskiy district of Smolensk region. The remains of a soldier was raised the sixth of may 2016 Moscow search party “Obelisk” on the former site of the hospital burial in the village Murygino and reburied on the sixth of may 2017 in a mass grave in the village of Vasil Temkinskiy district of Smolensk region. Searchers looking for relatives of Elijah the N. Savrasov for the transfer of personal folders and address modern burial place, so they could come and worship the memory of a close person.

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Jennifer Alvarez is an investigative journalist and is a correspondent for European Union. She is based in Zurich in Switzerland and her field of work include covering human rights violations which take place in the various countries in and outside Europe. She also reports about the political situation in European Union. She has worked with some reputed companies in Europe and is currently contributing to USA News as a freelance journalist. As someone who has a Masters’ degree in Human Rights she also delivers lectures on Intercultural Management to students of Human Rights. She is also an authority on the Arab world politics and their diversity.