Internet and history: Portal “Memory of Nation” has received a new level of ease to use

24 June 2016

Portal of the Ministry of Defence of Russia "Memory of Nation" will provide additional opportunities to determine the fate of the Great Patriotic War.

The portal containing the most comprehensive database and documents on the fighting and participants of the Great Patriotic War was updated and fully adapted for use with a mobile interface and improved search engine.

For example, you can now more accurately determine the circumstances of the end of the battle the way participants in the war. Delimit data on areas of origin and areas of primary burials, as well as lists of the dead in a particular hospital at the time of its location in a certain place and lists of those who died in the same hospital in other areas.

During the 2015 data with maps of wartime were correlated with current cards that are now marked recruitment space, military transit point, the dislocation of military units. Tracking the path of combat soldier or officer on the map, the visitor examines in detail the history of the military operations of specific units fighting magazines and documents parts - all documents relating to a particular person, the system automatically connects. In 2015, data on the place and time of feats have been introduced, and the search results page in the "War Heroes" appeared lists of awards, sorted by date. Thus, users can immediately get an idea of ​​the heroic history of milestones in the life of his grandfather or great-grandfather, and then can learn the circumstances of feats.