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History,
Memoirs, Studies et.al.| Address | Description | Language |
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Materials about Soviet Army history. Articles, analysis, memoirs. Different materials about the first period of the Great Patriotic War (June 22, 1941 - May 9, 1945) Its independent sections
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www.podvignaroda.mil.ru |
An official site of the Ministry of Defense of Russia containing several millions of war documents. Unfortunately they did everything to limit browsing and usage of those documents. The site engine has lots of disadvantages. You can save pages only individually (especially this exercise is very nice for 500+ pages documents). Saving giant maps is a separate story. A man, who finds way for quick saving a whole map in the original quality will be given a prize personally from me. The same for that one, who finds the way for downloading the whole dossier in automatic mode. Right now they have Direction-Front-Army scale operative documents and maps for the 1941 year and Berlin and Prague operations 1945. |
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| tankfront.ru |
"Tank Front" site. Armored units of the USSR, Germany, USA, Great Britain and other countries-participants of the WWII. OOB, structure and combat history of armored units | |
| mechcorps.rkka.ru |
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| militera.lib.ru |
COOL site! TONS of memoirs, raw documents and other materials about not only WW2, but other wars. The BEST FREE military book storage in the net | |
www.iremember.ru |
Much memoirs!!! Soldiers, pilots etc. |  |
| docs.vif2.ruww2doc.50megs.com |
A collection of scanned raw documents of the Soviet Army. See also ww2doc.50megs.com - its branch. May be unworkable for some time. tashv.narod.ru - another brunch devoted to NKO orders. |
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| victory.rusarchives.ru |
A huge storage of photos | |
| The site is devoted to fights around Vitebsk town and its occupation 1941-44. Very good raw materials. Unfortunately last time its address is not fixed and changes from time to time changing domens. | |
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Contains interesting raw materials about RKKA in the World War II and before it. Information about personalities. | |
| militarymaps.narod.ru |
Military maps of the Second World War. Geographical atlases of that period. Links to thematic resources. | |
| www.bdsa.ru |
The site collects different materials (OOBs, battle schemes), which already could be met in the net, but gathers them together. Qute an interesting content. | |
| www.samsv.narod.ru | OOBs of the Soviet troops. Fronts, armies, divisions | |
| amyat.narod.ru | Memoirs and other military books | |
| www.volk59.narod.ru | A very old site. Contains some interesting articles. | |
| www.pillbox.narod.ru | A site about the Winter War 1939-40. Some maps and articles | |
| www.himvoiska.narod.ru | The history of chemical troops in the Soviet Army | |
| www.lenbat.narod.ru | An old site about the Battle of Leningrad. | |
| hwar1941.narod.ru | Another old site about the first period of the Great Patriotic War. | |
| www.serpukhov.su... | Site about the Battle of Moscow | |
| mapww2.narod.ru | United map site of the previous three ones. Some mistakes in links. | |
| www.vojska.net | Interesting site containing information about an operations in Yugoslavia during the WW2. | |
| dsweb.svc.ops.eu.uu.net...
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Devoted to the Kursk battle. Detailed info. (Western sources) |
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| www.redarmystudies.net | Red Army Studies ("RAS", as we've come to call it) website, is a volunteer, non-profit site that is solely concerned with expanding on the current knowledge base regarding Soviet operational art, specifically the origin, development, and practice of this branch of military art up to the end of World War II | |
| www.iabsi.com... | You can find here section devoted to Carpathian operations of Soviet Army | |
| www.battlefield.ru | An old site in Russian and English. Much useful information. | |
| www.isidore-of-seville.com/kursk/ | The Battle of Kursk on the Web The Battle of Kursk on the Web is an comprehensive, annotated web directory to this titanic clash between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, often reckoned the greatest tank-battle in History. The website sorts and evaluates some 100 sites about the battle. Also other subjects presented |
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| www.pobediteli.ru | Site containinig basics about World War II. Good flash animation. Some other sort of data presents. | |
| www.primeportal.net | Interesting portal containing large collection of photos for many samples of arms. | |
| www.orc.ru/~dinamik/ | Materials about the Western Front (Zapadny front) (Byelorussia June 22 - July 9 1941). Organization, troops dislocation, commanders etc | |
| www.weltkrieg.ru | Large amount of materials. Briefly described many battles of the WW2, weapons and other aspects. Some video clips presented. In general, the site is giving basic info about situation on the Eastern Front. Project in development...Main language-Russian. Provides automatic transaltion from to English and Deutch |  |
| dp60.narod.ru | Site devoted to Soviet armor (photos from Kubinka) and maps. Also some other interesting info can be found. | |
| www.ugz-front.h1.ru | This site is devoted to the south-western direction of Soviet-German front. | |
| stinet.dtic.mil | Here you can find ENGLISH translated issues of Voyenno-Istoricheskiy Zhurnal (Military History Journal) for 1982-89 years. Not all articles are translated, but existing ones are quite enough for CD-ROM (~400Mb of texts) Index of VIZh articles see here (ZIP). (Many thanks to www.redarmystudies.net friendly site and personally to Greg Guerrero for creating this index) | |
| The site where collected a good portion of materials about operation in Rzhev area 1941-43. Contains thesis on the subject and some fulltext papers including foreign ones. | |
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| www.wehrmacht-history.com | Wehrmacht History 1935 to 1945. The primary focus of Wehrmacht History is on all military vehicles planes, ships, and weapons from 1935 to 1945 used by Heer (army), Luftwaffe (Airforce), Kriegsmarine (Navy), U-boats (Submarines), Waffen SS (Hitler's Elite), and secondary their Leaders. | |
| www.bryanskobl.ru/... | Operations of the Bryansk Front. Memoirs and other materials | |
| www.eismeerfront.com | The site devoted to operations in Arctic during WWII. | |
| pvrf.narod.ru | The site about history of Russian border guards. | |
| www.kaur.ru | The site devoted to Karelian Fortified Region | |
| www.eucmh.com | European Center of Military History. Photoalbums. Luftwaffe reports and other info. | |
| www.diament.ru | The Northern Fleet in WWII | |
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Lagre collection of photos of different weapons and personalities. Can contain some mistakes for Soviet side. |  |
| www.vrazvedka.ru | Russian site devoted to experience of recon units. Contains good library for those topics in WWII | |
| www.sww.w.szu.pl |  |
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www.staldata.com |
An interesting site devoted to the Stalingrad battle. Detailed OOB presented. Developing is in progress |  |
| www.stalingrad.net | Devoted to the Stalingrad Battle. Western look. | |
| battle.volgadmin.ru | Information about the Stalingrad battle. Raw documents, maps, photos. The complete variant of site is in Russian only! | |
Vehicles| Address | Description | Language |
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EXCELLENT site of Vassily Chobitok about different kinds of armored equipment. Lots of photos and other useful information. Articles and blueprints of many vehicles WWII period, earlier and later.... | |
| www.o5m6.de |
Cool recource devoted to lend-lease vehicles as well as different others. Excellent images! highly recommended to everybody!!! | |
| beutepanzer.narod.ru |
Developing photo site devoted to Soviet vehicles in Axis use | |
| www.thetankmaster.com |
Interesting collection of photos from different museums. Tank, artillery et.al. | |
| www.tehnikapobedy.ru | A site developed to an interesting project devoted to armor | |
| www.tankmuseum.ru | Kubinka Tank Musuem. | |
| www.dolin.estranky.cz | Contains nice photos of different vehicles. |  |
| bronetehnika.narod.ru | Encyclopedia of domestic armored fighting vehicles. | |
| fotoarmor.narod.ru | Information and photos of different soviet vehicles of XX century. May be useful for modellers | |
| www.redtanks.bos.ru | An old site about Soviet armored equipment. Video and photo materials presented. | |
| www.panzer-reich.co.uk | Panzers of the Reich. Information on the German Panzer Tanks of WWII development history, combat service, technical data and photos. | |
| www.ostpanzer.asty.ru | Nice site devoted to German AFVs. On its forum you can find interesting links on fulltext books and other interesting topics. (Everything in Russian) | |
| www.military.cz |
Tanks in the World War II. Shots of different armored vehicles. Some of them interesting. |
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| www.panzermuseum.com | |
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| www.angelfire.com... | Resource devoted to lend-lease trucks | |
| tanksinmoscow.ru | Walkaround weapons in Moscow museums | |
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| lighttankt-50.narod.ru |
T-50 identification site | |
| www.kv1ehkranami.narod.ru |
KV-1 identification site | |
| mechcorps.rkka.ru... |
KV-2 identification page | |
| t35incombat.narod.ru |
T-35 identification site | |
| t28ehkranami.narod.ru |
T-28 identification site | |
| tank-bt.narod.ru |
BT-2, BT-5 identification site | |
| T-34 photo gallery |
T-34 photo gallery. Misc. plants | |
Aircraft| Address | Description | Language |
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| www.allaces.ru |
Besides all, this site is devoted to Soviet aviation and Soviet aces. Contains very useful data. | |
| ilpilot.narod.ru | Interesting site devoted to the Soviet aviation in WWII. OOBs (from "BSSA" book), personalities. | |
Maps| Address | Description | Language |
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| topmap.narod.ru |
A fine collection of maps for Russia and former USSR. Link itself is dead, but parts of this site are still alive! |
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| www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/x-ussr/M37b.htm | Topographic maps of southern part of Russia and Ukraine. (Maps coding in Russian). If this link is not working, try to cut it to www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/x-ussr/ This opens maps directory from where you can click to M37b.htm. Maps of Ukraine are also available. On this site you can find a key file to Russian topographic maps (~24Mb) | |
| mapy.mk.cvut.cz |
Good topographic maps of Russia and Eastern Europe! |
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| mapstor.com | The map collection represents digital images of soviet military topographic maps published during 1960-2003. We make these maps more accessible for everyone. All maps in the collection may be searched and downloaded for free through the map location service on the website. The map collection is gathered with a help of the community of tourists and travelers on a free basis through the website poehali.org. It is available for free use, free of charge. |
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| www.topomaps.eu |
Large online collection of world maps | |
Wargames'
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| www.theblitz.org |
Cool wargamer's club!! | |
| www.battlefront.com | Forum on WW2 games' subjects | |
| www.warfarehq.com |
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Journals, E-Journals
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| www.armchairgeneral.com |
Armchair General is an interactive experience in military history and strategy. We have many unique features and departments that illustrate our commitment to being the best. Please take a moment and tour our magazine and sign up for a free trial issue. | |
| www.front2000.ru |
Frontline Illustration's official site. The best Russian serial about WW2 and AFVs! | |
| www.hobbyshop.ru | another online shop. Sometimes is more complete and valuable than Armybook. Low prices. | |
| www.orbat.com | A detailed source for Russian OOB info. Paid service! Including magazine Soviet Army Journal (www.journalsovietarmy.org) | |
| www.armybook.com | online shop of very interesting Russian military books and periodicals. | |
| www.worldwartwobooks.com | World War Two Books. Selling new and used military history books. | |
| www.germanwarmachine.com | German War Machine Magazine | |
Translation
Resources| Address | Description | Language |
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| www.lingvo.yandex.ru | English <-> Russian
and German <-> Russian online dictionary |
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| www.lingvo.ru | English <-> Russian and German <-> Russian online dictionary |
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| www.translate.ru | Multi-language online translator (supports Russian, English, German, Spanish, French) |
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Other Links| Address | Description | Language |
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| www.iisg.nl... |
Archives in Russia. Tons of useful info in English! Listings of Russian archives with detailed information about those | |
| http://www.warheroes.ru |
Great site devoted to personalities of the Heroes of the Soviet Union | |
| www.oddworldz.com... | Politruk's Great Patriotic War Site. Re-enactment site devoted to RKKA. Some interesting facts may be found. War stories. Brief materials on the 89th Gds. Rifle Division and the 8th Gds. Mechanised Corps. | |
| www.2ndguards.com | Reenactment group of the 2nd Gds. Division | |
| www.feldgrau.net | Another comprehensive forum on the WW2 subjects | |
| www.ww2talk.com | Forum on the WWII subjects | |
| english.sovmusic.ru | You can find here some well-known and not very famous examples of soviet songs of the War period and other times | |
| www.retro.samnet.ru | Large online collection of MP3 records of old Russian and Soviet compositions | |
| www.reibert.info | Ukrainian site devoted to the history of German troops. Uniform, information about excavations. Some things are of commercial usage | |
| soviet-posters.chat.ru | Collection of Soviet posters (KOI-8R code page) | |
| www.world-war-pictures.com | Featuring Posters, Photos, Poets and Arists from WWI and WWII. Rem. AMVAS: Big gap - no Soviet side presented yet. |
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| www.military-information.tk | It gives you all the information about:
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| awards-su.com |
Catalogue of Soviet awards. Very informative site. | |
| mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru | Inofficial site of "Modelist-Konstruktor" magazine. Many fulltext articles and blueprints. | |
| www.tarrif.net | Interesting galleries & manuals for different kinds of weapons | |
| www.fronta.cz | Czech military site. | |
| www.war-letters.com | This site is devoted to leters from the WWII | |
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www.kiwivets.com (mirror) |
"Nga Toa features a collection of oral history and personal accounts from WW2 veterans of New Zealand's armed forces. Includes personal stories from major theaters such as Greece, Crete, North Africa, Italy and the Pacific." | |
| www.forosegundaguerra.com | Large Spanish forum devoted to WWII subjects | |
