The remains of six Soviet soldiers will be reburied in the Vitebsk region

May 5, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA /. The reburial ceremony for the remains of six Red Army soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War will take place on May 7 in the area of the village of Luchinovka, Vitebsk district, the Voronovo rural executive committee informed a BELTA correspondent. Relatives of the deceased are expected to attend the event. The remains were discovered during roadworks to expand the Vitebsk-Liozno highway. Subsequently, during the inspection of the territory, servicemen of the 52nd specialized search battalion of the Ministry of Defense unearthed the remains of six people. Through meticulous search efforts, it was possible to identify the surnames of the deceased. During the war, military hospitals were deployed in those areas, with hospital burials located nearby, as well as military burial sites. In total, the surnames of 114 soldiers who died and were buried in those locations were identified. The fallen soldiers will be reburied in a common grave, where a memorial plaque will be installed. Subsequently, search operations in those areas will continue, and the reburial of soldiers whose remains are found will be carried out in this common grave. It is also planned to create a memorial, establish a park, and improve the adjacent territory here. In total, in 2010, it was possible to identify about 1.9 thousand surnames of the Fatherland's defenders who died during the Great Patriotic War and were buried in the Vitebsk region. Field excavations were carried out in the Gorodok, Beshenkovichi, Braslav, Vitebsk, Polotsk, Dokshitsy, Verkhnedvinsk, and Tolochin districts. Servicemen of the 52nd specialized search battalion worked on 27 search sites, recovering the remains of 210 deceased servicemen. The Vitebsk region has over 1.2 thousand military burial sites, containing the remains of about 384.5 thousand defenders of the Fatherland, of whom nearly 207 thousand remain unidentified. -0-