Information technology and history: During 2014 the electronic resource with data of archive losses in the First World War to be created

The data of archive losses of the Russian Army of the First World War will be available to the public till the end of the year: in summer will be released a memory book, during the year will be created an electronic resource, said the executive secretary of the Russian historical Society, the head of the analytical department of the State Duma Andrei Petrov.

The Russian Historical Society together with the State Archive on behalf of the speaker of State Duma Sergei Naryshkin has started the work on the processing, including digitization of the archive losses of the Russian Army in the First World War. The card file contains 7 million of cards for the dead, wounded and captured soldiers and officers.

“This is certainly the most valuable array, such an array, that we do not have in the history of the Great Patriotic War. I think that the first results will be already available this summer. We have a task on the release of the memory book, it will be implemented exactly, the electronic resource will be created during the year”, - said A. Petrov at the meeting with the speaker of State Duma Sergei Naryshkin and descendants of participants of the First World War.

In his turn, speaker of State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, who is the chairman of the organizing committee for the events dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the start of the First World War, noted that there was a big preparatory work and does not end on August 1, at the anniversary of the start of the First World War, but it will be continued for four years, during which Russia participated. He also noted the memory of preserving the memory of the war, about its soldiers.

“I am confident that the evidence of those events are not only important for the descendants and relatives, and countrymen who fought in the First World War, but it is also important for the society”, - said S. Naryshkin.

The meeting was attended by descendants of soldiers and officers, who fought in the First World War, many of who participated in the Great Patriotic War, as well.