ST.PETERSBURG. Nov 30 (Interfax-AVN) - The town of Sestroretsk just outside St. Petersburg will render last honors to the crew of the sunken S-8 submarine on Friday, a spokesman for the St. Petersburg administration told Interfas-Military News Agency. Soil from the S-8 disaster area will be buried in a Sestroretsk chapel at 12:00 p.m. Moscow time (0900 GMT), the spokesman said.
The submarine sank in the Swedish territorial waters on November 30, 1941. Its remains were found by Swedish and Russian divers in July 1999. The Nastoichivy destroyer pulled memorial duty in the disaster area in May last year.
A capsule with soil was lifted from the sea bottom at the initiative of the Moscow Navy History Club. The burial will involve sailors of the Leningrad naval base and veteran divers, as well as officials of consulates general of Ukraine, Belarus, Israel and Sweden.