Documents from the Great Patriotic War appeared on the VDNKh Award Materials Portal

2023: Integration of the VDNKh award materials portal with "Memory of the People"

ENEA Documents from the Great Patriotic War appeared on the portal of award materials.

Earlier, ELAR Corporation carried out work to create the online portal itself and digitize archival documents of more than 1,000,000 laureates of VDNH exhibitions.

The information portal of award materials VDNKh is an online resource with a large database of digitized archival documents. The portal provides information on national achievements since the foundation of the exhibition in 1939.

The ELAR developers were tasked with digitizing and collecting in a single electronic archive all the award materials of the VDNKh participants, photographs, as well as a variety of documentation reflecting the history of the exhibition. It was necessary to ensure not only its reliable long-term storage and use for internal needs, but also to organize convenient public access to the most interesting materials about the participants in the events and their awards. Users can find award decrees on the portal, which mention more than 60 thousand organizations and more than one million people. Information has been published about both labor collectives and individual agricultural workers, machine operators, industrialists, aircraft designers, scientists and researchers who have ever been awarded at VDNH for significant achievements and advanced developments.

In 2022, the next stage of the development of the project was completed - the mutual integration of the VDNH portal with the online resource of genuine archival documents about the Great Patriotic War - "Memory of the People" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Now, when searching the Memory of the People portal, users see not only the combat path of the hero of the Second World War, but also his achievements in peacetime, if he is awarded as a laureate of VDNKh awards. By the same analogy, on the VDNKh portal, when viewing information on awards for peaceful achievements, data on military merits are also available if the laureate is a participant in the Great Patriotic War.

The creation of an electronic database and a public portal "VDNKh Archive and Library Fund" made it possible to perpetuate the memory of millions of exhibition participants and their achievements, "said Yuri Spelnik, director of corporate customer relations at ELAR. - VDNKh's online resource makes it easy to find information about a particular participant and get documentary evidence of his awards and achievements. The integration of VDNKh and Memory of the People portals further expanded the functionality of the solution, providing convenient access to a huge database of digitized documents with data from exhibition laureates and information about those who participated in the Great Patriotic War.