title: Oral History of the Great Patriotic War: Institutionalization and Research Results in the South of Russia
abstract: The article deals with the formation of the oral history of the Great Patriotic War as a area research in the South of Russia. The chronological framework of the article covers the period from the war years to our time. The Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR conducted the first polls in the South of the RSFSR directly during the war years. Folklorists and ethnographers continued to study the reflection of war in the people's memory during 
journal: Historical Courier