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In Lvov, unidentified people dug near the grave of Soviet saboteur Nikolai Kuznetsov. Local media do not rule out attempts to steal the remains. Kuznetsov’s relatives want to re-bury his remains in Yekaterinburg, but in 2020 the Lviv City Council did not agree to transfer the ashes of the NKVD officer to his relatives.
In the afternoon On December 31, a resident of Lvov discovered the excavation of the grave of NKVD agent Nikolai Kuznetsov on the Hill of Glory. Write about this local Zaxid.net edition.
According to him, police officers and other police agencies worked at the scene.
“The excavation was found in a flowerbed behind the monument at Kuznetsov’s tomb, the hole was covered with a board from above. The purpose of the excavation is not yet clear, but it is probably an attempt to steal the remains from a Soviet agent or preparations to blow up the grave, “the site noted.
There is no information about the incident on the police website. Law enforcement officials, according to Zaxid.net, promised to provide detailed information on January 2.
Nikolai Kuznetsov is a Soviet intelligence agent-saboteur, an agent of the NKVD, who eliminated 11 generals and high-ranking officials from the occupation administration of Nazi Germany. Kuznetsov died on March 8, 1944 in the town of Boratin, Lviv region. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The exhumation of the remains of an NKVD agent was carried out in 1959, in 1960 they were reburied on the Hill of Glory in Lviv.
Zaxid.net writes that pKuznetsov’s relatives want to rebury his remains in Yekaterinburg. On February 7, 2020, the executive committee of the Lviv City Council did not agree to the transfer of Kuznetsov’s ashes to his relatives in Russia.
Kuznetsov’s grave was repeatedly painted, and in March 2019 a bronze bas-relief was stolen from him.
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