Activities of the Courts of the USSR and the Stalingrad Region During the Great Patriotic War and in the First Post-War Years

The authors studied the work of the courts of the USSR and the Stalingrad region during the Great Patriotic War and in the first post-war period, as well as the regulatory legal acts that guided the courts in their work. This is especially true in conditions where attempts to deny and deliberately falsify the historical events of 1941–1945 do not stop.
The article highlights the issues of professional development of judges who do not have sufficient training in the field of civil law; the categories of cases considered during the period under study; the results of the work of the Stalingrad Regional Court in the first post-war years. The measures and means aimed at protecting the rights of military personnel are shown. 
The study was conducted on the basis of archival materials and regulatory legal acts covering the period from 1941 to 1947, including those stored in the State Archive of the Volgograd Region and in the funds of the Volgograd Regional Court.
On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory, it is important for the judicial system to preserve historical memory, to show the consistent development and continuous improvement of the court’s activities as an institution to ensure the protection of citizens’ rights and freedoms, the interests of the state in the war and post-war periods, and the basic moral values that guided judicial officers in their daily activities.