HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR. ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE SOGASPI ARCHIVAL COLLECTION

Abstract

The material of the article contains a classification and review of a unique fund with documents of personal origin, which is permanently stored in the Samara Regional Archive of Socio-Political History (SOGASPI) – the Archival collection of documents of the Heroes of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, who lived in the post-war period in Samara-Kuibyshev . Particular attention is paid to the information component of the fund's documents, which makes it possible to trace the life and combat path of four veterans of the Great Patriotic War who received the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union. The documents of the fund were deposited according to the author's and thematic principles of the formation of archival funds. The number, composition and chronological framework of the documents included in the collection have certain differences.