Study of the great patriotic war by historians of the Volga region at the modern stage

Theme of the Great Patriotic War was and remains in high demand among historians. The introduction into scientific circulation of previously, unknown archival documents, the improvement of the methodological tools of research, open up new aspects in its study. Volga historians made a weighty contribution to the development of the problem. The paper attempts to consider the main directions of their work. The author comes to the conclusion that they are dominated by regional themes.