18.08.2026, 19:13
Soviet IL-2 plane found at the bottom of the Volga River
Source: OREANDA-NEWS
OREANDA-NEWS Not far from Syzran, an IL-2 plane was found at the bottom of the Volga River, which crashed during the Great Patriotic War. This is reported on the page of the military-patriotic community of EPRON.
The activists said that 10 years ago they found information in the archives that an Il-2 plane crashed and sank in the Volga River on June 1, 1942. Already this season, in the summer of 2026, a group of amateur submariners was sent to the possible crash site of the combat vehicle.
The plane ended up on the border of the Stavropol and Shigon districts of the Samara region. They were able to find him thanks to a professional technique that scanned the depth and "touched" an uncharacteristic object at the bottom.
According to a document in the archive, the pilot of the plane was Senior Lieutenant Abram Genin. In June 1942, he took off with a junior mechanic from the Ridge airfield and headed for Arzamas. The report does not say what exactly went wrong at the time of the crash. At the same time, there is evidence that the plane flew into the water at a speed of 280-300 kilometers per hour — the pilot had no chance to survive. At the same time, the military technician escaped and later told the headquarters about everything.
Earlier, more than a thousand parts of a Soviet aircraft were found near Smolensk. Meanwhile, near Novgorod, activists went to the forest and dug a huge crater in search of a Soviet MiG-3 fighter. And the search engines of the Berezka detachment restored the last flight of the Soviet Il-2 and found its crew in the forests of the Novgorod region.
The activists said that 10 years ago they found information in the archives that an Il-2 plane crashed and sank in the Volga River on June 1, 1942. Already this season, in the summer of 2026, a group of amateur submariners was sent to the possible crash site of the combat vehicle.
The plane ended up on the border of the Stavropol and Shigon districts of the Samara region. They were able to find him thanks to a professional technique that scanned the depth and "touched" an uncharacteristic object at the bottom.
According to a document in the archive, the pilot of the plane was Senior Lieutenant Abram Genin. In June 1942, he took off with a junior mechanic from the Ridge airfield and headed for Arzamas. The report does not say what exactly went wrong at the time of the crash. At the same time, there is evidence that the plane flew into the water at a speed of 280-300 kilometers per hour — the pilot had no chance to survive. At the same time, the military technician escaped and later told the headquarters about everything.
Earlier, more than a thousand parts of a Soviet aircraft were found near Smolensk. Meanwhile, near Novgorod, activists went to the forest and dug a huge crater in search of a Soviet MiG-3 fighter. And the search engines of the Berezka detachment restored the last flight of the Soviet Il-2 and found its crew in the forests of the Novgorod region.
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