The publication presents facsimiles and transcripts of documents of government bodies, including the State Defense Committee, the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command, Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, resolutions of the Council of People's Commissars and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, orders of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR and front commanders from federal and departmental archives and museums of the Russian Federation, reflecting the main events of the period of the Great World War 1941-1945.