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| Soviet submarine 'Malyutka' that sank in 1941 was found in Peter the Great Bay |
| 2025-04-08 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] In Peter the Great Bay, the Pacific Fleet (PF) military, with the support of veterans' organizations, discovered a Malyutka-class submarine that sank in 1941. This was reported on April 7 by the fleet's press service. “As a result of a long search by the Pacific Fleet with the active support of veteran organizations of submariners, a Malyutka-type submarine that sank during the Great Patriotic War was discovered in Peter the Great Bay,” the statement said. It is noted that the discovered submarine is, preliminarily, the submarine "M-49" of the Pacific Fleet, which sank on August 16, 1941. Then the entire crew perished - 22 people. In addition to the submarine "M-49", a submarine of the "M-63" type sank in Peter the Great Bay. The search for the boats began 20 years ago with the help of the research sailing vessel "Iskra", the hydrographic vessel "Vice-Admiral Vorontsov" and other vessels of the fleet. The vessel Igor Belousov was able to determine the type of submarine; its sailors measured the shape and parameters of the submarine using underwater remotely controlled vehicles, coming to the conclusion that the discovered boat was the Malyutka. The submarines sank in August 1941 while on a combat mission. They were named for their compact size, which allowed them to be transported by rail without being completely disassembled. As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier in Germany, 47-year-old historian Mirko Kühn claimed to have discovered a secret aircraft hangar that was built by the Nazis using prisoner-of-war labor. It was noted that the length of the discovered hangar was 200 meters, the width was 25 meters, and the height was at least five meters. According to Kühn, the hangar could accommodate about 10 aircraft with bomb protection. The historian identified the entrances to the supposed hangar building using old aerial photographs. Kühn himself has been exploring the forests of Thuringia for more than 10 years. In addition, in 2011, just a few hundred meters from the supposed hangar location, a mass grave containing the bodies of 66 Soviet prisoners of war was discovered. As Kuehn suggested, the Nazis used Soviet soldiers as forced laborers to build the underground hangar. |
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