The bodies of 21 Red Army soldiers were discovered in Chechnya's Naursky region by volunteers, according to the Russian Community of Military Historical Heritage.
Even German aerial photographs of the Second World War were used to find the bodies. According to Soviet war records, perhaps tens of thousands of corpses of soldiers are in the area.
Far from Chechnya, in Karelia, three mass graves were also discovered containing the bodies of Red Army men who died of their wounds in 1944 at the makeshift 339 Military Hospital there. Among the dead were many Asian citizens of the Soviet Union at the time.
The burial site was forgotten after the end of the war and was now discovered by volunteers at a distance of 15 km from the Russian-Finnish border.