Repressive activities of NKVD military units of the Red Army and Military Tribunals in the period from summer of 1941 to autumn 1943

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the little-studied topic of the activities of the NKVD personnel units of the Red Army in the summer of 1941, 1942 and autumn 1943. Methodologically, the work is based on the principle of analytical and historical approaches. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the repressive activities of military tribunals were reproduced on the example of three fates of ordinary Red Army soldiers, natives of Chernihiv region. Conclusions. This was facilitated by Stalin's speech on July 3, 1941, in which he called for a ruthless struggle against deserters, panickers, cowards, and rumors, and to bring them immediately before the Military Tribunal, regardless of their identity. Shoot for counter-revolutionary conversations. The NKVD's military units had no restrictions on their actions. The fates of three Red Army soldiers are significant – Petro Yakovlevich Otroshchenko, Oleksiy Ilyich Zhabynsky, born in the village of Ryabtsi, Chernihiv district, and Fedor Oleksandrovych Atroshchenko, a native of the village of Khmilnytsia, Chernihiv district. Analyzed archival and criminal cases under №17540-PF and №8921 PF from the funds of the archive of the USBU in Chernihiv region and the State Archives of Chernihiv Oblast (SAChO. FR-8840, op. 3, spr. 2138), filed against these people, testify that the repression in the Soviet army was no less striking than in civil society. Sincere words of gratitude to the Chernihiv district branch of the National Union of Local Historians of Ukraine for the previously provided information about P. Ya. Otroshchenko, F. O. Atroshchenko and O. M. Zhabynsky, which played an important role in further research