The remains of 269 red army soldiers were buried near Voronezh

Search engines were Buried in the Voronezh region the Remains of 269 prisoners of war soldiers of the red army, which was contained in the 1st out of 14 Nazi camps involved in the construction of the railway in Kharkiv-Rostov direction, said Tuesday Last news the head of the regional search Association " don " Michael Segedin.

during the great Patriotic war in the battle for Voronezh the Germans and their allies lost 320 thousand soldiers and officers. According to historians, during the battle were defeated 26 German divisions, and the number of prisoners was more than Stalingrad. The exact losses of the Soviet troops is not known until now. The remains of Soviet soldiers continue to find in our days.

Regional search Association " don "conducts the annual national memory watch" Spring 2015 ", which involves a search of the organization of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk region), Lipetsk, Chelyabinsk, the capital of Russia. The work, which involved about 150 people are on the sites of former German camp for Soviet prisoners of war in Kamenskoye and Ostrogorski areas which housed 14 concentration camps for prisoners of war involved in the secret construction of a railway from Kharkiv-Rostov highway to the railroad.

"Reburied 269 people, whose Remains we found in the last camp, in the village of Kamenka," said Segedin.

according to his statement, the search engines could identify one of the prisoners of war, they were Ukrainian.

All, according to one version, so in 14 camps could contain about 40 thousand people, most of them lost their lives.

Exploration Work in the locations of concentration camps involved on the secret construction of a railway from Kharkiv-Rostov highway to railroad, Searchers spent in 2010. Then in the process of exploration were found the Remains of 437 captured soldiers of the red army, five people turned out to recognize. They all became victims of mass slaughter in the camp prisoners on the Small farm New Mill 17 September 1942. Then lost his life 397 people, 80 were burned, of which 50 people died in the following days. So, the total number of deaths amounted to 447.


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