The great-grandson of the defender of Leningrad handed over the personal belongings of the hero-red army

In the diorama “Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad” today, searchers met with the great-grandson of the hero of the defense of Leningrad, whose remains were found on the territory of the Kirov district. So in the family history was closed the last “white spot”, said the public Museum.

In August 20256, the remains of the dead fighters were found in the SNT near Mgi. The indifferent owners of the site immediately called the searchers. After two days of excavation, they found the remains of 6 people and two soldiers' medallions.

In one of the medallions were data on Turusov Vasily Vasilyevich, born in 1904, a native of the Yaroslavl region, a painter from the Leningrad plant KINAP. He went to the front on June 22, 1941, served in the 1st Infantry Division of the NKVD. Missing in the area of the village of Gory.

The soldier and his colleagues were buried at the military memorial in Mga. And on the day of the mourning ceremony, the great-grandson of the Red Army man called. It turned out that he lives in Petersburg.

The meeting in the diorama “Breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad” was the final event of this story. The descendants of the fallen hero were given his personal belongings.

Earlier, “MK in Leningrad region” said that in the city of Telman Tosnensky district reburied the remains of soldiers of the Red Army. Eternal peace at the memorial “Izhora battering ram” found 69 Red Army soldiers. All of them were picked up by searchers during the field season.