Russian investigators found the remains of a Soviet fighter pilot of World War II. His biplane crashed in a remote Arctic region. 80 years later, his plane disappeared on the lake. His remains are still in the driving of his biplane. In the cabin.
The investigation bureau of the Russian Murmansk Region Investigation Committee said: “It is initially determined that his last flight to enemy defense forces and terrain reconnaissance was in October 1941.”
The crew of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, as well as regional and military investigators, spotted the aircraft 49 feet from the surface of an unnamed lake—the weapons were intact and raised it to the surface. According to the Kola District Investigation Bureau, the lake is close to the Zapadnaya Litsa River, where a “blood battle” took place in the summer of 1941.
(Russian IC/Zenger in Murmansk region)
“The enemy is advancing to Murmansk, hoping to win quickly and easily. The Red Army’s war, at the cost of a large number of northerners’ lives, managed to prevent their homeland from being taken. The enemy. [was] Stop at the entrance to the port city,” the investigator said.
According to the fleet, the remains of 50 Soviet citizens killed by the Wehrmacht in 1941 are located somewhere in the lake.
In the sparsely populated Murmansk region north of the Arctic Circle, which is known for its harsh and unstable climate, the fleet used underwater drones to find partially malfunctioning aircraft.
The Russian authorities used archive records to determine that the pilot was Lieutenant Mikhail Alexandrovich Golunov, born in 1910. It is believed that he was killed on October 25, 1941 while observing enemy defense forces.
At that time, the Axis army had been advancing in Murmansk Operation Barbarossa — Nazi Germany and some of its allies began to invade the Soviet Union in June of that year.
IC/Zenger of Russia in Murmansk Region
The goal of the Nazis was to conquer the western part of the Soviet Union in order to resettle the Germans. In December 1941, this effort ended in failure of the Axis powers, and the Soviet army suffered nearly 5 million casualties. Despite this, the Nazi army was unable to invade the successfully defended city of Murmansk by the Soviet Union.
The Soviet army also lost 21,200 aircraft in the German invasion.
Other items recovered from the lake in July included machine guns and pilot’s TT service pistol — The discontinued Soviet semi-automatic weapon produced in the early 1930s.
Although monoplane fighters were very popular during World War II, some Biplane Used in support roles such as reconnaissance. However, the Russian authorities did not disclose the specific type of aircraft that Guronov flew.
Investigators don’t know if Golunov was shot down or crashed for other reasons.
“At the request of the relatives, the body will be buried in the deceased’s hometown or the deceased’s memorial cemetery. Glory Valley On the day the offensive to liberate the Soviet Arctic began,” Russian investigators said.
This story is provided by Newsweek Zenger News.
