The remains of the Soviet soldier Pyotr Vasilyevich Petrov were found in the Leningrad region

The search for the relatives of the Soviet soldier Pyotr Vasilievich Petrov, whose name was discovered from a medallion found along with the remains of a soldier in the Leningrad region, is being conducted by search engines, the press service of the Vologda Search Engine Association. reported on April 27 on the VKontakte social network.

The remains of a Red Army soldier were found during the interregional search and training expedition “Voronovo-2024” in the Leningrad region. Petrov Petr Vasilyevich was born in 1904 in the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad region (Voskresenskoye, building 71). On the reverse of the medallion is the inscription: “Address of daughters: Kalinin region, city of Bezhetsk, Krutitsky street, village Staroe Podgorodye, Petrova AP”

The soldier’s remains will be buried at the New Maluksa War Memorial on May 8, 2024. Anyone who can help find the warrior’s relatives should contact coordinator Alexander Metelkin at +7 (921) 722-40-03.

Recall that the search training expedition “Voronovo-2024” will be held from April 20 to May 8, 2024 in the Kirov district of the Leningrad region. The organizer was the interregional public organization “Vologda Search Engine Association” with the support of the Presidential Grant Fund, the government of the Vologda region and the Russian Military Historical Society. More than 200 searchers from the regions of Vologda, Leningrad, Kirov, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Bashkiria, Udmurtia, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yakutia, the Donetsk People’s Republic and other regions take part in the expedition.

On April 25, it was reported that during the Voronovo-2024 expedition in the Porechye tract, Kirov district, Leningrad region, at the site of the battle of the 2nd Guards Special Purpose Engineer Brigade, They found the remains of a soldier with a spoon. on which the initials “KMI” were scratched. Taking into account the data of soldiers previously found in this place, search engines assume that the spoon belonged to a native of the Vozhegodsky district of the Vologda region (Lipino-Kalininsky village, Kozlovo village) Mikhail Ivanovich Kanyukov, born in 1914.

Source: Rossa Primavera