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This project is dedicated to highlighting persons who received the medal "People's Artist of the RSFSR" during the years of the Soviet Union. Please include the recipients of the medal. People's Artist of the RSFSR (Russian: Народный артист РСФСР, Narodnyj artist RSFSR) was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, actors, choreographers, music p...
The Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, romanized: Orden Lenina), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930 . The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded to: Civilians for outstanding services rendered to the State Members of the armed forces for exe...
The Lomonosov Gold Medal (Russian: Большая золотая медаль имени М. В. Ломоносова Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova), named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarded each year since 1959 for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences and the humanities by the USSR Academy of Sciences and later the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Since 1967, two me...
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation This project is dedicated to highlighting persons who received the medal "Honored Artist of the RSFSR" during the years of the Soviet Union. Please include the recipients of the medal. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Russian: Заслуженный артист РСФСР, Zasluzhenny artist RSFSR) was an honorary title granted to Soviet artists, including theatre and film d...
KATYN 1940 Massacre Please add profiles of people (Polish officers and others) who were murdered in Katyn area (including i.e. Charkow, Miednoje, Kalinin, Kijów, Ostashkiv) in the spring of 1940. The Katyn massacre, also known as the Katyn Forest massacre, was a mass execution of Polish nationals carried out by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet secret police...
If in your family tree you have a persons that ware the Lithuanian deportees by the Soviet system, please add them to this project. Please add within a profile description some biography facts.* Within opened profile page use the 'Actions' button to "Add to project". Select this project (you must be on the list of collaborators in this project to see it on the selection list). You may add any p...
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, frequently shortened to Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The army was established immediately after the 1917 October Revolution. The Bolsheviks raised an army to oppose the military confederations (especially the various groups collectively known...
During 1931-1935 about 6500 Finns travelled to Soviet Karelia from the United States and Canada. Some of them were immigrants born in Finland, others were second generation. Often entire families travelled. Many of them returned either to Finland or their starting point. However, many fell victim of the Soviet purge in 1937-38, and were sent to prison camps or executed. Several sources list th...
The purpose of this project is to gather information about citizens who participated in USSR repressive structures in Lithuania: NKVD, MGB and KGB. Source for the project is Project of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania (in Lithuanian) Please add only public profiles to the project.Sources for reading: the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania NKVD - The Peo...
Please specify this project under the profiles of people who were active members of the NKVD and later the KGB in Lithuania. From 1945 to 1990, the NKVD (later KGB) in Lithuania was a key force in suppressing opposition and maintaining Soviet rule through arrests, deportations, and executions. They targeted individuals based on their perceived anti-Soviet views, political affiliations, religi...
Please add to this project profiles of people who were tortured and/or killed by the Soviet Regime. If possible, please, within the profile description, add a brief biography; also, please add information about the place, date (could be approximate), and what is known about the given order to torture, execution, or persecution of family members. New Martyrs under Communist rule should also be...
If you have family members in your tree who participated in the Lithuanian resistance against the Soviet regime, please add them to this project. It would be great if a brief biography were added to the profile description. This project should include Lithuanian Partisans, anti-Soviet activists, not only local Lithuanian resistance participants, but also people of various nationalities and cit...
Please specify this project under the profiles of people who were victims of KGB punishment that was served in Lithuania, various prisons, and sites. This includes people who were imprisoned, tortured, killed, died during imprisonment, survived, and were released. The KGB used its authority to imprison political dissidents, ordinary criminals, and even innocent individuals. Not all victims ...
Please add this project to the profiles of people who were sent to the 1979 - 1989 Soviet war against Afghanistan. During the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), an estimated 4,500 Lithuanians were drafted into the Soviet Army and sent to Afghanistan. Several hundred were killed or maimed, and a third experienced post-traumatic stress, leading to some suicides, according to the China-CEE Institute...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. Continue reading: Wikipedia During the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), the Soviet Union primarily relied on its own citizens for military personnel, including soldiers from various nationalities within the Soviet Union. However, support for the war effort...
Signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania (Act of March 11) Wikipedia: The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 (Lithuanian: Aktas dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo) was an independence declaration by Lithuania adopted on March 11, 1990, signed by all members of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania le...
Please add this project to the profiles of exiled and imprisoned people in the Norillag labor camp at Norilsk. Also, please specify this project under photos and documents related to the subject. Norillag, Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp (Russian: Норильлаг, Норильский ИТЛ) was a gulag labor camp set by Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia and headquartered there. It existed from June 25, 1935, to...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of those who survived the Soviet Labour Camps in Siberia. Also, please specify this project under documents and photos related to the same subject. Gulag (Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labour Camps”) was a system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that, from 1918 to 1...
Victims of the Siberian Labour Camps The purpose of this project is to collect all of the names of those who died in one of the Soviet Labour Camps in Siberia. Also, please specify this project under photos and documents related to the same subject. An estimated 1.6 to 1.76 million people died in the Soviet Gulag camps between 1930 and 1953. While official records attribute many of these dea...
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the GENI projects on the subject of Soviet Union penal labor and prison camps in Siberia, the Far East and other locations. Also, to make a list of locations for various labor camps and prisons. Many prisoners were transferred from one Gulag camp to another. Prisoners had no right to communicate; sending and receiving mail was prohibited. So, fo...
Estonians, who have stayed shorter or longer time in Norilsk or nearby or who have been prisoners at Norillag's camps. Estonians were among those deported to Norilsk, a city in the Russian Arctic. Many were prisoners who labored in the Norillag (Norilsk Corrective Labor Camp) during the Soviet era. Norilsk was a major Gulag camp, and Estonians, along with other nationalities like Latvians and...