The solemn funeral ceremony for the burial of the remains of 79 Soviet soldiers, raised by search engines in the spring Memory Watch, took place at the memorial in the village of Tsemena, Demyansk district, Novgorod region, reported the “53 News” online publication. on May 8.
The remains of the Red Army soldiers were discovered by members of the Demyansk and Zvezda search teams from the city of Borovichi. As part of the combined detachment “Eternal Call”, based at the Borovichi “Star” base, the detachments of the Novgorod region “Nadezhda”, “Yunost”, “Nebolchi”, “Rubin”, Orenburg “Gamayun”, from the Tver region also participate in the “Maksatikha” Memory Watch region, from the Komi “Orphanage No. 2”, a detachment named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Andreevich Koltyga of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
During the spring phase, searchers found three soldier medallions and the Order of the Red Battle Banner. The names of two fighters who gave their lives in the battles for the liberation of the Demyansk region are known. During the Great Patriotic War, Vasily Petrovich Didin, born in 1910, and Alexander Mitrofanovich Nelyubov, born in 1917, died here.
His granddaughters Olga Nikonova and Margarita Pustovalova from Moscow came to see off their grandfather Vasily Petrovich Dilin on his last trip. They expressed enormous gratitude to the search engines and reported that every year they carried a portrait of their grandfather through the streets of Moscow in the ranks of the Immortal Regiment.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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