Abstract
The article reviews some of the results of the international project "Front / rear: gender aspects of the Second world / great Patriotic war in the history of Kazakhstan and Russia", implemented by historians and sociologists in Kazakhstan and Russia from 2018 to the present. The article shows the possibilities of applying the gender approach and the method of oral history to study the events of the great Patriotic war. Attention is drawn to such forms of work as interviewing contemporaries of the great Patriotic war in Kazakhstan and Russia, cooperation with public and scientific organizations, as well as interest in the project materials at the international level.