Recently in taiga there were found the remains of a Soviet bomber. On 17th December 1939 approximately at 9.00-9.05 this bomber by extreme necessity took off from the airdrome Yagodnik 17 km from Arkhangelsk along the Northern Dvina river. The aid of the bomber was needed for destruction of the Finnish fortification. The weather on that day was awful and at 9.22 the bomber with four crew members aboard ran into the forest…
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Today it is hard to reveal the cause of the wreckage. Perhaps they are quite usual – the range of circumstances: adverse weather conditions, bad pilot control, icing or maybe technical causes … However the fact is that the bomber stroke against the crowns of the trees and burst into pieces by the trunks as if it was made of paper… To tatters… In shreds…
The wreckage trail was about 20-30 m. Everything remained on the surface in petrol and oil. The wrecked vehicle didn’t ignite by a miracle. 25 sorties were made to find the bomber and its crew but they were never found …
via liveinternet.ru
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Hello Dixie.
Nice pics. I like that it tied in the funeral. I wonder how it went down.
Nice
Don´t mess with the finns, haha. A lot of estonians respect the finns, because thay kicked Soviets ass during the 2WW. Nice job bros!
very interesting pictures, the memorial photo at the end was a nice end to the collection
Thanks for sharing, great post.
Propably Tupolev SB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_SB
Probably a lot of these around sadly. They’re still finding some in the US.
Too bad the pistols were so rusted.
The plane looks like a Tupolev SB.
RIP to the crew
Good post. History is always important (over culture).
Very interesting post, thanx for sharing. When you think they where on the way to bomb Finns ( read kill).What an irony…. I understand they where taking orders , was myself sergant in the army of USSR, but what an irony…
Kill the Finns? Never! They were only dropping bombs to come to the aid of the glorious Finnish Democratic Republic!
This wreck was actually found sometime in 1999, but only posted recently. The original blog post on the Russian website was huge, and in two parts.
Don´t mess with the finns!
Finns gave a good sauna to the soviet dark forces during the 2nd World War (Talvisota & Jatkosota).
Amazing story, it must be very thick country to be lost all these years only 20 minutes from takeoff.
Great collection of photos and a nice tribute to those lost in the war. I’d guess that there are more of these grim discoveries yet to come. We need to value peace as much as conflict…. maybe make the world a better place. We in America need to learn and appreciate the value of this!
I love posts like this, thanks.
Its a shame to see that the plane crashed and there was no survivors, but at least now the families can have some closure on the incident and know that their loved ones are finally resting in peace. Bravo on the services picture at the end. It ties it all together and makes the photo gallery that much more memorable. Thank you for the picture upload…
so the remains of the crew were found or just some of the personal belongings? this says never found, as in never or as in till the date of this posting?
You did a good job.
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