Tuvan volunteers on the frontline: contempt of death and high patriotism

Authors

  • Yuri V. Rubtsov Military University, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Keywords:

Great Patriotic War, Tuva during the Great Patriotic War, jubilee, publication-2014, archival sources

Abstract

Article presents the archival materials included in album book "Tuva for the frontline” (Moscow, 2014). The publication edited by the Russian Minister of Defense S.K. Shoygu is a scientific popular source study. It contains a significant number of documents regarding the participation of Tuva in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 specially revealed for this title by the Russian State Archive of Sociopolitical History and the Central Archive of Russian Ministry of Defense.

References

Sergei Shoigu predstavil v Tuve knigu-al'bom «Tuva — frontu» (2014) [Elektronnyi resurs] // Tuva.Aziia. 7 sentiabria. URL: http://www.tuva.asia/news/tuva/7377-tuva-frontu.html (data obrashcheniia: 07.02.2015).

Tuva — frontu. Vklad Tuvy v bor'bu s fashistskimi zakhvatchikami v period Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny (2014) / pod red. S. K. Shoigu. M. : OAO «Krasnaia Zvezda».

Published

01.03.2015

Issue

Section

70th anniversary of the Great Victory

Author Biography

  • Yuri V. Rubtsov Military University, Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
    Doctor of History, Professor, Deputy headof research centre