[Regnum] The remains of approximately 19 people, presumably victims of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, have been discovered in the Tver Oblast. This was reported on October 23 by the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region.
The remains were discovered during excavations in the village of Burashevo, Kalininsky Municipal District. In 1941, during the German occupation, the Nazis carried out a mass murder of patients at the local M. P. Litvinov Psychiatric Hospital. According to archival documents and historical research, over 1,500 people fell victim to the massacre.
The Nazis shot patients, fatally wounded them right in their wards, and administered lethal doses of narcotics. Some patients who survived poisoning were buried alive.
Investigators, forensic experts, and the "Memory of the 6th Airborne Company" and "Vityaz" search teams are currently working in Burashevo. Forensic examinations have been ordered to determine the gender, age, and circumstances of death of the individuals found.
The excavations are part of a criminal investigation into the genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators. Investigators continue to establish the circumstances of the crimes committed against civilians in the country's occupied territories.
Similar discoveries are being made in other regions of Russia. For example, in April, searchers in the Leningrad Region discovered the remains of children aged 5 to 13 and young women. They also found an archival document about the massacre of residents of the former Mginsky District, now part of the Kirovsky District. According to the document, at the Krasny Oktyabr state farm, occupiers forced 16 people, including women and children, into a wooden house and set it on fire. All inside perished.