Olekminsky district in the first months of the Great Patriotic War (based on the materials of the National Archive of the RS (Ya))

Abstract

The war era is fading away, as are the direct participants of those harsh times. The new generation knows about the war from books, films, videos, from the stories of those who heard and saw the war participants, sometimes the facts are changed out of ignorance or deliberately, which leads to a distortion of historical reality. Therefore, today the study of archival materials is especially relevant, because these documents are the primary sources of information and are of decisive importance for understanding historical events. The author of this article set himself the goal of reviewing the archival materials of the P209 fund “Military Commissariat of the Yakut ASSR”, data of the Olekminsky United District Military Commissariat.