Here in Sevastopol, during the construction of houses, the remains of soldiers are very often found. In most cases, land owners hide this fact when discovered so as not to create unnecessary problems for themselves. But this time, the owner of the site turned out to be a decent person and informed the search engines about his find. That an excavator, digging the foundation, caught the remains.
My friend and I went to the place. They began to reveal the place where the excavator caught the remains. First one fighter, then the second. As a result, 5 people were raised, and based on their personal belongings that were preserved, it was determined that they were Soviet soldiers. One had a belt with a naval badge, and on it was a captured German bayonet for a Mauser rifle; it was immediately obvious that he was a combat sailor! Another had a cigarette case with cut-up newspaper for rolling papers, on which was the date: July 1942, the most hellish days of the defense of Sevastopol. There were also straight razors and Soviet coins, but not a single medallion or signature item. In the process of lifting, I came across one Soviet 7.62 cartridge case, cartridge case and cartridge case, and the thought in my head was: “Why only one?” None of us paid any attention to this.
When we finished, we collected the garbage, I didn’t want to throw away the cartridge case, I thought: “According to my tradition, I’ll look at the year.” There was nothing at hand to shake out the earth (it’s good that I didn’t do this), so I threw it into my backpack.
The next day, in the morning, at about 6 o’clock, while no one was bothering me, I took the cartridge case, and the soil in it dried out overnight and fell out on its own. I look and there is paper in it. THIS IS A MEDALLION!!! The emotions are indescribable, I woke everyone up! And then I think: “After all, the sleeve was not closed, the probability of the safety of the liner is very small.”
When they sawed the sleeve, they unrolled the liner without even immersing it in water. It was thick paper on which the fighter wrote down his data in detail with a pencil, everything was preserved as if it had been written yesterday. From the mark on the paper, it became clear that the cartridge case was closed by a bullet that jumped out when we touched the cartridge case when the fighters were rising. Therefore, the note was preserved. We immediately looked at the OBD, he was listed as missing. They immediately started looking for his relatives, but unfortunately they could not be found.
Sent by comrade Lev.
