War is the most tragic event in people’s lives. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 was especially tragic. For the first time, Yakut soldiers took part in that bloody war, many of them remained on the battlefields. Among those mobilized were also teachers, representing intelligentsia. In total, 2,124 people left Churapcha District for the front, with 180 teachers from the district educational system among them, including history teachers. The authors of the article endeavored to consider the war path of history teachers, natives of Churapcha District: I. D. Egorov, G. D. Efimov, M. P. Efimov, S. K. Makarov, I. M. Pavlov, and S. S. Popov, who fulfilled their duty, returned from the front and continued their social and pedagogical activities, making a great contribution to the education of younger generations.

World War 2 is the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind. It remains the main focus of the most acute ideological, academic, and informational-psychological struggle. It deliberately allows distortions, bias in the assessment of events, and sometimes lies. The Great Patriotic Wwar of the Soviet Union in 1941-1945 was an integral part of World War 2. It changed the entire course of the war and our people defeated the fascism of the twentieth century, freeing many countries from Hitler’s occupation. The Great Patriotic War is estimated by the historical memory of our people as the most significant event, first of all because this memory is connected with the history of each family, with the most essential and intimate aspects of people’s lives. In the year of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, we are on the threshold of a new stage of understanding the lessons and significance of the Great Patriotic War. Historical memory and national pride are the best qualities of the Russian people. We must take all the best and truthful information from the existing historiography of World War 2 and the Great Patriotic War and reach a better understanding of the numerous aspects of the Great Patriotic War. To do this, first of all, one must know the actual history of the last war. The purpose of this publication is to present materials, events, facts and figures from the history of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 to the reader in a systematic way. Many of the data cited are either new, little-known, or forgotten. According to the author, the publication of such content will be especially useful for young people, students, and people of the young and middle generation who are only familiar with the tragic and yet heroic history in the lives of their grandfathers, fathers, and brothers. All this knowledge will be passed on from generation to generation and the memory of the heroism of our people in the last century will live forever.

Global political, economic and social changes that have taken place recently in the country have inevitably affected the transformation of social institutions. In such changing conditions, the person and family lose their social orientation, and the processes of adaptation to new realities become more complicated. Alcoholism, drug addiction, unemployment, the stratification of society into classes of poor and rich, the growth of crime are the consequences of the transforming society. Today, no one has any doubts about the existence of the problem of violence in the modern Russian family. Violence has become a common occurrence, with one in four families reporting its presence according to experts. The violence is of a transferable character insults to a brutal murder. Domestic violence is a brutal, relentless, and cruel phenomenon that has a destabilizing effect on family values and the healthy spiritual and moral development of future generations.

This article is devoted to the current problem of the peculiarities of the implementation of Soviet procuratorial supervision in times of “stagnation” at lowest levels, using the case of Momsky District, one of the typical reindeer herding districts of the Far North in the Yakut ASSR. The research first analyzed archival documents of the Prosecutor’s Office of Momsky District from 1966 to 1991. On the example of a small district prosecutor’s office, the following features of functioning were revealed, characteristic for the whole USSR: the dictate of the Communist Party bodies over decisions to be made by law enforcement agencies; ineffective fight against alcoholism and hooliganism; punitive policy of the Prosecutor’s Office and the court; inequality before the law; total supervision of compliance with the labour rights of citizens; formation of mistrust in the prosecution and law enforcement agencies, as well as in the Communist Party and the state as a whole in the late 1980s, and eventually the collapse of the USSR. Based on the study, the author proposes to take into account the experience of the previous years in order to prevent mistakes of the Soviet time.

The article examines the issues of formation of communal lands, analyzes the norms of customary law of Sakha people that regulated the use of communal lands, the order of their distribution among members of the community, the rights and obligations of persons who received the right to use land plots.