Raised from the bottom of the Western Dvina gun model 1927 Bashny.Net

Divers Club "Captain Morgan" raised from the bottom of the Western Dvina near Uly (Vitebsk, Belarus) 76-mm regimental gun model 1927.

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As told the agency "Minsk-news" club member Yevgeny Vorobyov, such tools were produced in the USSR from 1928 to 1943. During this time they were released about 18 thousand. In the CIS, only about 12 known surviving copies. In Belarus, such exhibits, until recently, was not in any museum. In one version of the museum staff of the Great Patriotic War, divers found a weapon fell into the Western Dvina during the retreat of the Soviet Army in 1941.

- Yesterday, the gun was taken to the historical and cultural complex "Stalin Line" for the restoration, - said E. Vorobiev. - On the carriage survived identification number and date of issue - 1939. Specialists are planning to send a request to the archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to find out more information about this gun. Hopefully soon gun put on public display.