MATERIALS OF THE COLLECTION OF SOVIET UNION HEROES(THE CENTRAL STATE ARCHIVES OF MOSCOW): L.A. BUTKOV, THE PARTICIPANT OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
Journal: History and Archives
Year: 2021

The work introduces into scientific circulation the documents (autobiography and memoirs) from the personal file of L.A. Butkov, the Soviet Union Hero; his dossier being deposited inside the collection of Soviet Union Heroes (the Central State Archives of Moscow, F. P-8682). If the autobiography is an extremely formalized text, the memoirs mentioning the author’s hatred towards the Nazi invaders are written in easy language, reflecting the impressions of those ordinary fighters who, to a large e