The Collective Portrait of the Fatal Casualties of Red Army servicemen from the Kalmyk ASSR in 1941–1945 (based on materials of Memory. Sanl volumes)

The article examines the four volumes of The Memory. Sanl from a comparative perspective. The edition publishes an annotated list of ca. 34,500 Red Army soldiers and officers largely conscripted in the Kalmyk ASSR — and subsequently classified
as KIAs and MIAs between 1941 and 1945. The purpose. The paper attempts a comparative analysis of somewhat consolidated database compiled from Kalmykia’s natives conscripted into the Soviet military forces in 1941–1945 — and contained in the four volumes of The Memory. Sanl. Materials and methods. We have used a wide range of scientific methods, both general scientific and specially historical. The need for statistical analysis has led to the active use of the statistical method and the extrapolation method.
Results. The volumes mention a total of 26,458 KIAs and MIAs conscripted in the Kalmyk ASSR. The work shows that despite the fact that edition comprises quite a number of inaccuracies in names of geographical objects, errors in military unit numbers, clerical errors in actual dates. Nonetheless, the present compiled and corrected database contains a significant portion of statistical data on
places of service and death, and further use of the latter will contribute to the research of a collective portrait of Red Army servicemen conscripted in the Kalmyk ASSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.