OREANDA-NEWS  Search teams found an army safe in a swamp near Pskov with unique contents — a banner and documents from the Great Patriotic War. This was announced by the head of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov, his words are quoted on the administration's website.

It is specified that the search engines were working at the battlefields of the 170th Infantry Division, which was sent to the front on June 23, 1941. They found a safe near the village of Somino in the Nevelsky district. Inside were the documents of the 210th separate communications battalion, which is part of the division, as well as letters, military literature and a banner.

"In itself, this find is a unique event, a miracle. After all, a safe with documents was found in the marshes in such a condition that they can be read," Khabirov said.

Earlier, Sakhalin search tourists engaged in the discovery of historical sites in the region found a time capsule on Chekhov Peak. The find goes back 46 years, to Soviet times.