Car of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation KALININGRAD, January 10 The remains of the Red Army were found during the reconstruction of the street named after Lieutenant Katina in Kaliningrad, the Investigative Committee is conducting a pre-investigation check, the press service of the department told reporters. «The workers found the bones of at least three people and fragments of army uniforms. On this fact, the investigators of the Investigation Department for the Central District of the city of Kaliningrad, SUSK Russia in the Kaliningrad Region, organized a pre-investigation check.» , — reported in the press service. forensic examinations. According to representatives of the regional search group «Conscience», who are conducting the exhumation, the remains at belong to the soldiers of the Red Army who died during the Great Patriotic War during the East Prussian operation during the assault on the fortress city of Konigsberg in April 1945. The modern Kaliningrad region is located on part of the territory of the former German province of East Prussia. Here the East Prussian offensive operation of the Soviet troops took place, during which the Red Army men occupied East Prussia and liberated the northern part of Poland. After World War II, by the decision of the Potsdam Conference of the anti-Hitler coalition countries, most of East Prussia became part of Poland, a third of the territory with the capital Königsberg passed to the USSR.
