A burial of Red Army soldiers from the Great Patriotic War was found in Atyrau

The data of 64 Red Army soldiers who were treated in Guryev evacuation hospitals during the Great Patriotic War (WWII) were identified by activists of the Russian ethnocultural association "Bylina". This was announced to Izvestia on July 20 by the chairman of the association, Andrey Korablev.

The mass grave was discovered on the territory of a former fish cannery in the Kazakh city of Atyrau. According to Korablev, it was possible to find him thanks to the data posted on the Internet.

"These data are documented: there are certificates from evacuation hospitals, there are personal cards of fighters, the cause of death was indicated, it was indicated that these were soldiers of the Red Army who died in the evacuation hospital," he said.

Korablev added that it would not be possible to exhume the remains, as more than 30 mass graves had been found at the site, which had grown together with the main cemetery.

"I will be preparing a proposal to the city authorities to perpetuate this burial on the spot," he stressed.

In November 2023, the remains of 132 people who died as a result of the actions of the fascist troops during the Second World War were reburied in Gatchina, Leningrad region. In the period from October 1941 to January 1944, the headquarters of the German security police SD was located in Gatchina, where arrested NKVD officers, Jews, prisoners of war, partisans and all those dissatisfied with the fascist regime were brought from different regions of the region.