On the night of June 29, 1941, at the foot of a hill in Murmansk, Soviet Union, the German commander Lieutenant Rod ordered several soldiers to go to the 122-meter-high Muzta Ridge to scout the surroundings, and then come down the hill to report to him. When the soldiers had disappeared in the hillside, Lieutenant Rod and his troops heard the explosions of grenades and the sound of gunfire, and soon everything was calm again, and the German soldiers sent out never returned.
On June 30, at 5 a.m., under the cover of morning fog, Lieutenant Rod sent more soldiers up the hill. They met Soviet soldiers on the hillside, and the two sides engaged in a close-quarters shootout. The soldiers on the hillside belonged to the 136th Infantry Regiment of the 14th Infantry Division of the USSR. During the engagement, some Soviet soldiers pretended to be dead and lay motionless on the ground, and when the Germans approached, they suddenly attacked them, shooting some German soldiers.
Nevertheless, after 6 hours of fighting, all but two Soviet troops on the hill were captured and all but the Germans were killed. German soldiers then reported the entire battle to Lieutenant Rod, and the German soldiers who were sent up the hill at night, one of the soldiers who escaped from the cliff after jumping from the cliff and escaping from the lake, also returned to the unit. He described in detail to Lieutenant Rod how the Soviet army killed German soldiers on the hill without taking prisoners at night. By this time, the fate of the two Soviet prisoners of war was predestined.
According to the Germans: "The fierce one-on-one battle began on the Soviet side, they attacked from behind boulders and camouflaged positions, and several Soviet soldiers pretended to be killed in order to carry out sneak attacks from behind the Germans." For the safety of the Germans themselves, it was impossible to leave prisoners of war, and the battle could only be ended by the complete elimination of the enemy. The German soldiers sent up the hill to scout at night were brutally killed by the Soviets, and the only survivor was the wounded soldier who jumped into the lake to escape, who described how the Soviets ruthlessly executed all the German soldiers after the battle. All of us were infuriated by this brutal method of fighting. Two captured Soviet prisoners of war were executed after a brief trial. ”
After German officers and men unanimously demanded revenge for the killing of two Soviet prisoners of war, Lieutenant Rod gave the order to carry out. The photographs show how two Soviet soldiers bravely stood in the face of death, despite already knowing they were about to be shot. The two soldiers then lay here for 70 years.
It wasn't until 2013 that a group of World War II remnants searchers in Murmansk found the execution site and found the remains of the two Soviet soldiers.
It was learned through the relic that one of the Soviet soldiers was named Sergey. Kororkov. He was born in 1912 in the village of Humeliki, a farmstead in the Selznyskiy region of Therzysky, Kirov Oblast. A week earlier, he had just joined the Soviet army on June 22, 1941. Details of another soldier remain unknown.