In the Kuril Islands 47 found the remains of Soviet soldiers

Sakhalin search engines in the course of the expedition to the island shumshu (Northern kuriles) found the remains of soviet and Japanese soldiers died in the great patriotic war, interfax reported. The results of this expedition and we are impressed. Managed to find the remains of 47 soviet soldiers and sailors who died during the kuril landing operation in august 1945. Also found the remains of three Japanese soldiers, said the agency chairman of the regional branch of "Search movement of russia" artem bandura. According to him, the five soviet soldiers, the searchers found the name things – spoons, flasks and heels of boots with scratched and carved on them the initials. "Three of them scratched their names (it is already established that the soldiers come from novgorod and chelyabinsk regions).

Two others listed only the initials (first letters of name and surname), so on arrival in yuzhno-sakhalinsk, search engines will work in files with lists of participants in the amphibious operation, to establish their identity," said bandura. Now a search for relatives of soldiers whose identity has been established. As for the victims of Japanese soldiers, one of them discovered the badge with a personal number, the other inscribed seal. These things, together with the remains will be handed over to the Japanese side. Unidentified soviet soldiers buried with full honors in severo-kurilsk (island paramushir) at the local war memorial. The agency reminds that at the end of the second world war in the North, where based the main part (80 thousand) groups of Japanese troops in the kuril islands, a landing of soviet troops who took the island by storm. Then in the fighting killed about a thousand soviet soldiers and at least 200 of the Japanese military.