FSB declassified archive data on the course of the Battle of Stalingrad

The Federal Security Service (FSB) has declassified archival data, transferred to the military leadership of the USSR during the Battle of the Volga River (Battle of Stalingrad) in 1942-1943. This was reported on February 2 in the press service of the FSB of Russia in the Volgograd region.

In Russia on February 2 is celebrated the Day of Military Glory - the Day of the defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad.

"The basis of news reports of this period included the characteristics of the military situation, counterintelligence and intelligence activities, the state of the defense complex, the situation of the population, ensuring epidemiological security and martial law regime in the region, as well as the fight against crime," the department said.

It was specified that NKVD units on a regular basis collected information about the enemy's offensive actions, including on the territory of the Stalingrad region (now - Volgograd region), after which it was transferred to the leadership of the Soviet authorities and local defense committees.

"After the beginning of the encirclement of Hitler's grouping, the information collected (including through agents) made it possible to identify weaknesses in the enemy's defense and block counter-offensive actions," the FSB said in a statement.

The agency called the declassified data one of the most important contributions to the common victory over fascism for the peoples of the USSR.

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Earlier, on January 16, the FSB released new evidence of Nazi crimes during the Second World War. Among them - the testimony of Wehrmacht executioner Martin Feuerbach, who hanged 120 people. He fell into Soviet captivity in March 1944, during interrogation it became clear that the military man personally hanged 120 people, beheaded 80 people, 10 of them executed by cutting off limbs, two nailed for hands and feet.

On December 25, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the victory over Nazism in 1945 should be promoted as a common value for all mankind. He noted that all CIS countries remember and honor the feat of all peoples of the USSR.

In 2025, May 9 marks 80 years since the victory in the Great Patriotic War (WWII). In January 1945, the USSR army launched an offensive against Berlin. As a result of the fighting at 00:43 Moscow time on May 9, the commanders-in-chief signed an act of unconditional surrender of Germany, which served as the end of the Great Patriotic War.