The body of the Soviet pilot Boris Lazarev 55 years after his death
The body of the Soviet pilot Boris Lazarev 55 years after his death Founded 55 years after the death of the body of the Soviet pilot Boris Alexandrovich Lazarev . The Hurricane fighter from Sergeant Lazarev from the 760th mixed aviation regiment of the 259th Fighter Division of the 7th Army of the Karelian Front was shot down in the course of an air battle on February 21, 1943 by the German pilot-ace, Oberfeldwebel Rudolf Müller from the 6th Squadron “Experttenstaffel” (6/JG5 “Expertenstaffel”) of the 5th Luftwaffe fighter squadron and fell into a swamp 40 kilometers from the town of Louhi Karelian-Finnish SSR (the modern Republic of Karelia). The Soviet pilot did not have time to leave the plane and was killed at the time of the impact on the ground. The plane with the remains of the Boris Lazarev pilot was raised from the swamp in 1998 by the St. Petersburg search group “Height”. The marshy terrain, petrol and oil from the engine of the fighter did not let the body of the dece