The fateful historian of the Sakha people (To the 100th anniversary of the birth of the scientist - historian D.D. Petrov)
The victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in 1941-1945 was won with great efforts and with great sacrifices, thanks to unprecedented heroism at the front, labor feat in the rear, unity and brotherhood of the peoples of the USSR. The history of Yakutia during the Great Patriotic War is a special page. Our people do not forget those times. This time has remained in the memory of the people forever. The peoples of Yakutia also made their worthy contribution to the common cause of the Victory both at the front and in the rear. Despite all the hardships and losses, the people of Sakha withstood the hardships of wartime with honor, steadily approaching the Victory Day with their daily military and labor feats. Persistently, over half a century, with his tenacity and diligence to study the contribution of the peoples of Yakutia in common Victory in the Great Patriotic War was engaged in a famous historian Dmitry Dmitrievich Petrov, a recognized expert on military history topics. His monograph in two parts “Yakutia during the war” is a fundamental study of the history of Yakutia during the war. The scientist published a collection of documents and materials, letters of soldiers, memoirs. His scholarly works, recognized by people, made a significant contribution to the national historiography of the Great Patriotic War. On the basis of the found award lists, he achieved the assignment of the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union to the Yakut soldiers. Skillfully combining scholarly activities with practice, he made a worthy contribution to the perpetuation of the bright memory of the fallen soldiers on the battlefields. As a research historian, D. D. Petrov carried out a truly ascetic work, which could be done by a large research institution. The works of D. D. Petrov still remain the main, in general, the only scholarly research and works published on the history of the participation of Yakutia in the Great Patriotic War.