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Penza searchers discover remains of five fighters in Orel region

13:09 | 14.10.2019 | Society

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Penza, 14 October 2019. PenzaNews. Penza searchers discovered remains of five fighters during a military and archaeological expedition in the Orel region.

Penza searchers discover remains of five fighters in Orel region

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According to the press service of the Ministry of Education of Penza region, the search work was carried out on the site where the village of Krivtsovo used to be located. During the Great Patriotic War it was a strategic height. The 137th Infantry Division, which included natives of the Penza region, took part in the bloody battles for it.

During the expedition more than 60 meters of trenches were worked out. One of them contained the remains of warriors who died in the period from January 1942 to July 1943.

They were transferred to the inter-regional search association Koster for the organization of reburial.

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