Abstract
The collection consisting of orders of the Commissioner of Defence of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War and the military aspects connected with their everyday life is considered in the article.The contents of orders obviously illustrate shortcomings of the organizationquestions, granting resources and mobilization.Orders No. 46, 127, 166 explain a problem of inexplicable loss of human life which are still not found out.The fate of millions of people is still unknown because of unfair registration.From 307 orders included in the collection, 177 have been classified as "confidential", and 50 have been designated by a signature stamp of the increased privacy.Having studied orders, the maintenance of important questions has been opened.Difficulties of registration of those who have died in the Great Patriotic War and missing persons and also the questions connected with determination of category of the losses listed in orders.