The book "Instruct the NKVD... Special camps in the documents of the GKO and People's Commissariats of the USSR (1942-1946)"

The NKVD special camps were only a very small part of the USSR's security system in that historical period, which was able to cope with the fascist invasion, contributing to the Great Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. For the first time, declassified archival documents and photographs of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the Russian State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents of Krasnogorsk, the Central Museum of the Border Troops of the FSB of Russia, the Central Museum of the FSB of Russia, the Central Museum of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Central Museum of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the Central Museum of the Food Service are published in the book Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, family archives. Anyone who tries to reconstruct the events of those years, which were not very well covered, concerning former Red Army servicemen and persons who were surrounded or captured, faces incredible difficulties in research due to the regime of varying degrees of secrecy of archival documents of the NKVD of the USSR and its departments, Special departments and departments of counterintelligence "Smersh", other People's commissariats and departments. .Such a strict regime of documentary circulation was caused by the presence of external and internal threats that took place during the formation of the Soviet state, in the pre-war years and the Great Patriotic War, and their increase from the West after its end. Archival funds on this issue were formed at a time when showing interest in them could lead to big trouble.