The search project ” Homeland sky ” was created to perpetuate the memory of the dead and missing pilots during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as local conflicts of the 1930s on Hasan, Khalkhin Gol, in Spain and Finland. The project is based on the principles of a scientific approach, starting from fieldwork carried out using the latest technologies (such as GPR and magnetometric surveys), the most complete documentation of field and technical aspects up to the archival work and historical data analyzes.

For more than ten years of active air search operations in different regions of Russia, Mongolia, Poland, Germany, and other countries, our specialists have examined more than 250 crashes sites. Cooperation with international organizations in search for dead pilots allowed us to establish the front-line fates of hundreds of Soviet pilots, as dozens of names of German, Spanish and Japanese pilots.

As part of the project, we conduct scientific work in state and departmental archives of Russia, process materials from foreign archives of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Spain. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of the historical, field, and archival data, we can provide a relatively complete picture of the history of military aviation and its heroes.

The Center for Contemporary History invites historians, researchers, search engines and volunteers, individuals, and organizations who want to personally participate in the restoration of the fate of military pilots to cooperate in the direction of air search.