Memorial to sunken Soviet submarine unveiled off Bulgaria
10:10, 9 June 2009
BALCHIK. June 9. KAZINFORM A memorial plaque has been unveiled in honor of a Soviet submarine L-24, some 70 years after it sank off the Bulgarian coast, a head of the Russian-Bulgarian expedition said on Monday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
The L-24 submarine with 57 submariners onboard disappeared off Bulgaria's Cape Shabla in December 1942 after it is was hit by an underwater Romanian mine.
The submarine was located by Bulgarian divers in 1991, but work to identify the vessel was only carried out on June 2 by a Russian-Bulgarian expedition. Russian divers identified the submarine on Friday after reading a mark on the bow; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.
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