{"id":1020974,"date":"2025-08-29T16:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1020974"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:13:49","slug":"the-state-archives-of-the-vitebsk-region-has-prepared-a-virtual-exhibition-of-documents-natives-of-vitebsk-awarded-the-medal-for-victory-over-japan-dedicated-to-the-day-of-the-end-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1020974","title":{"rendered":"The State Archives of the Vitebsk Region has prepared a virtual exhibition of documents \u00abNatives of Vitebsk awarded the medal \u00abFor Victory over Japan\u00bb, dedicated to the Day of the End of World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In honor of the victory over Japan<\/strong>, the defeat and capitulation <strong>that ended World War II<\/strong>, the medal <strong>\u00abFor Victory over Japan\u00bb<\/strong> was established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 30, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the analysis of data on all military personnel, natives of Vitebsk, awarded the medal \u00abFor Victory over Japan\u00bb, a list of 287 individuals was compiled.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region<\/strong>, a preliminary identification of documents on all individuals presented in the list was carried out. Information on early (pre-war) biographies was identified: copies of birth certificates, documents on graduation from educational institutions, materials on parents and immediate relatives, photographs, as well as documents from the post-war period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/virt_vyst\/gavt_za_pobedu_nad_japoniey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>View the exhibition<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-68.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1074340\" class=\"wp-image-1074340 alignnone size-full\" width=\"60%\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the victory over Japan, the defeat and capitulation that ended World War II, the medal \u00abFor Victory over Japan\u00bb was established by the Decree of the Presidium&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sitenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020975,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020974\/revisions\/1020975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}