In the Rostov region schoolchildren from search Cossack squad “Duty” was able to establish the names of the fallen in the Great Patriotic war seven soldiers.
the restoration of historical justice was conducted for seven years. The names of the soldiers engraved on the memorial slab of a mass grave.
– According to the recollections of local residents – July 15, 1942, the Germans bombed the railway station Gukovo with particular zeal. The aircraft was marching in 24 cars. For standing on the ways health briefing No. 990. Seven people were killed. After the RAID they buried on the street day – in the garden of a local resident Galina Romanenko, – told “RG” the initiator of the search operation Marina Korotkova.
Until 1996 the grave of the red army was looked after by the residents of the house on the street Pervomayskaya. Then the remains of the soldiers solemnly reburied in a mass grave near the monument “Military Glory”. However, their names were unknown. In 2013, we began the search. Students have recorded memories of residents and checked hundreds of documents in the archives. The result of seven searches from oblivion managed to return the names of the defenders of the Motherland.
Eternal rest in Gukovo found: 19-year-old Muscovite Alexander Pavlov, 39-year-old Ivan flails (Copov), Crimean Tatar Abdul Ref Lieutenant from Rostov-on-don Alexey Kalashnikov, kubanets Eugene Gulkin, a native of Kazakhstan Kurmangazy Italgen the engineer and sanitary trains Ivan Yanchenko from the city of Gukovo.
– Trying to find relatives of the victims of the red army, but we have answers: recipients dropped out or not installed. However, we do not lose hope, – said Marina Korotkova.
