The article actualizes the resource memory and the practice of perpetuating the events and people of the great patriotic war as a source of experience of a civil act. The aim of the study was to characterize the combat path of the 194th infantry red banner rechitsa division during the great patriotic war, supplemented by new sources of information. The chronological method makes it possible to show the combat path of the division during the war years, as well as to determine the time of its reorganization, to identify the main combat operations in which the division participated, to establish the routes of its movement. The descriptive method provides an opportunity to supplement the existing information with new materials that were not previously available to the researcher. The statistical method allows you to establish the number of servicemen related to the division, the number of awarded and determine the number of those killed in the division. All these data appeared relatively recently on the site memory of the people, it is only required to conduct a detailed count of the dead on the basis of viewing the documents. The comparative method allows one to assess the role and skill of the division command in planning combat operations, in preparing reinforcements, in the ability to manage divisions of a division in comparison with divisions of a similar profile. In the context of the policy of perpetuating the memory of exploits and sacrifices on the example of 194 sd. Presents the results of search archival work on local events of the great patriotic war and the significance of combat losses during the liberation of belarus.
A Contemporary Commemoration of the Dead: Yyr-pyd s’oton in Southern Udmurtia