The Swedes have named the date of the sinking Russian submarines. Foreign experts believe that the submarine belonged to the Russian Empire, sank in 1916.

Swedish divers who found sunken in the Baltic sea submarine, which, most likely, has Russian roots, checked some of the parts about her. Experts strengthened the view that the ship belonged to Russia. Not to mention the fact that divers of the company Ocean X-team, convinced that it was built in the era of the Russian Empire.

These conclusions the researchers made on the basis of data acquired from the cameras installed on the robot. On the record shows that the submarine has a name. The video is even viewed the letter b used in pre-revolutionary spelling at the end of words after vowels.

This allowed the experts to imagine that they found a domestic submarine "Som", according to the newspaper Expressen. With all this, divers stressed that we are talking about the submarine, which sank in the Baltic sea in 1916 - during the First world war.

"The submarine sank on may 10, 1916, when confronted with the Swedish steamer "Angermanland", all crew members, apparently, were lost", - quotes the researcher from the Icelandic company IXplï¡rer Ocean Reserch Alex max RIA Novosti. According to him, the traces of the submarine he was looking for about 2 years - both in Swedish and in Russian archives.

Earlier it was reported that foreign researchers during a routine dive off the coast of Sweden in the Baltic sea noticed a small flooded submarine. According to their data, its length is 20 meters, width - 3 m.

The length of the submarine "Som" was 19.3 m, width - 3,5 m. In early July, 1915, the submarine was transferred from the black sea fleet in the Baltic.
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