Fedosov, A. V., Popov, I. O. NKVD TROOPS IN THE DEFENSE AND LIBERATION OF KARELIA DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2023;45(8):103–113. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2023.980


Russian history

NKVD TROOPS IN THE DEFENSE AND LIBERATION OF KARELIA DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Fedosov
A. V. 		Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Karelia
Popov
I. O. 		Russian Guard Directorate for the Republic of Karelia
Keywords:
NKVD troops
Northern Front
Karelian Front
Directorate of Border Troops of the NKVD of the Karelo-Finnish District
Directorate of NKVD Troops for the Protection of the Rear of the Karelian Front		 Summary: The purpose of the research is to study the little-known history of the participation of the troops of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs in combat operations on the territory of the Karelian-Finnish SSR during the Great Patriotic War, to supplement the information base on the history of the war in Karelia. For the first time archival data of the Russian State Military Archive and the Central Border Archives are introduced into the scientific turnover, the scattered information about the composition and combat history of the units of the USSR NKVD troops operating in the territory of the Karelian-Finnish SSR during the Great Patriotic War on the Northern and Karelian fronts, as well as about their contribution to the defense and liberation of the republic in 1941–1944 is systematized.



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