28 russian soldiers k.i.a.

[KJ43 0]

in Triest there is a grave to remember 28 russian soldiers that fell on May2nd,1945. We don't know exactly how they fell, my guess is that they were attached to yugoslav partisans and they were killed during the fights against the germans. They were very unlucky because war was already over ,here,so they died at the very end of the war. Any information is welcome, so that they will not be forgotten.

[ТРИЗНА 88]

You would write a place of this burial place, and then, not clearly they were guerrillas or these are active armed forces?

[KJ43 0]

the burial place is Triest, Italy. I don't know if they were regular russian soldiers , its possible, maybe attached to yugoslav partisans as advisors?

[ТРИЗНА 88]

Likely nevertheless guerrillas, only whence are known their surname precisely. Though who can that at a forum knows, whether there were our armies in that месте.если were that about a burial place will learn not difficultly. If guerrillas that I think not probably, and local administration you did not stay to learn about this burial place?

[Greber 0]

KJ43, many thanks for your interest!

Here is an article about Russians fighting against Germans in Italy in 1943-1945 (in Russian):

http://www.russedina.ru/frontend/print.php?id=8899.

There were about 5 000 Soviet citizens fighting against Nazi among Italian partizans during the war. About 1000 of them died. Most of the Russians were POW.

Almost in 200 Italian cities and settlements there are graves of Soviet soldiers, most of them are situated in Turin, Cuneo, Florence and Genua.

So, I think that memorial in Trieste is one of the graves of Russian partizans in Italy.

Ciao!

[Шурик 9]

Вот что по этому поводу сообщил на форуме сайта soldat.ru Александр Москвин:

"... в тех местах в начале мая 1945 закончила боевые действия 1 Ударная советская пбр Югославской народно-освободительной армии сформированая из советских военнопленных бежавших из лагерей. В начале на базе Советского ударного батальна 18 Ударной пбр ЮНОА сформирована 1 Советская Ударная пбр в составе шести батальонов общей численностью 1500 человек. Участвовала в штурме г. Триеста. входила в состав 9 ак НОАЮ.

Около 150 военнослужащих батальона и бригады погибли".

С уважением,

[KJ43 0]

hello greber, thanks for the useful link! In Trieste anyway the situation is a bit different: we did not have many italian partisans, because we were part of the Reich from 1943-1945 and territory was controlled by yugoslav partisans. I am quite sure that this unlucky soldiers were fighting together with the yugoslav partisans of Tito.

[Schwarzman 0]

Recently there was in Russia one organization in charge of Russian military burials in Russia and abroad - "Voyennye Memorialy"

АССОЦИАЦИЯ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО ВОЕННО-МЕМОРИАЛЬНОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА "ВОЕННЫЕ МЕМОРИАЛЫ"

Юридическое название ассоциация международного военно-мемориального сотрудничества "военные мемориалы"

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The information is a little bit old.

They should have known about this grave.

Regards,

Schwarzman

[зулусъ 0]

интересный состав национальный - славяне, тюрки и один эстонец.

надпись дублируется на сербском

[Ruvent 0]

...и один венгр по моему. Вот была дружба народов реальная. И никаких тебе ДПНИ :-)