German minefield during the great Patriotic war was discovered and defused by robots, sailors of the Baltic fleet in the beginning of his visit to Gogland island in the summer of this year Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in an interview to the newspaper "Red star" commander of the Baltic fleet Admiral Alexander Nosatov. "Last summer under the auspices of the Russian geographical society on an expedition to the island of Hogland, in which took head and Minister of defense. Not everyone knows that the preparation and support of this expedition was the use of ships, vessels and engineering division of the Baltic fleet ", - he told. in July Putin at the Gogland looked at the collection of items raised by archaeologists from the vessel, which sank in the nineteenth century at the North-Eastern tip of the island. In addition, he made a dive in a submersible to the bottom of the Baltic sea to the place of death of the submarine U-308 " Salmon ", which sank in the Gulf of Finland during the great Patriotic war. Putin has already been at the Gogland island six years ago - in July 2013. Then the head got acquainted with the projects implemented in the Baltic sea as part of the list of activities deep-sea research of the Russian geographical society, visited student archaeological field camping PRO and talked with the participants of the expedition " Gogland-2013 ". Just as the private visit to the island Putin made in the submersible dive to the place where he was found sunk in 1869 sailing screw frigate of the Baltic fleet " Oleg ". <span style="color:darkgray