THE REMAINS OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR II, ST. PETERSBURG FOUND THE REMAINS OF FIVE SOVIET SOLDIERS WHO DIED WHILE DEFENDING THE CITY DURING WWII.

 THE REMAINS OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS OF WORLD WAR II, ST. PETERSBURG FOUND THE REMAINS OF FIVE SOVIET SOLDIERS WHO DIED WHILE DEFENDING THE CITY DURING WWII.

As many as 200,000 Soviet soldiers were killed here between September 1941 and May 1943 in fighting to break the Nazi siege of the city

A group of Russian volunteers searching a river bank outside St. Petersburg found the remains of five Soviet soldiers who had died while defending the city during World War II. 

There was little left but bones, but among the remains was one corroded dog tag, with a small piece of paper containing the soldier's identification information still rolled up inside.

In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, Zoya Izotova, niece of Ivan Shagichev, Soviet soldier killed in 1941, holds a portrait of her uncle at a coffin with his remains during a burial ceremony in a memorial cemetery at Nevsky Pyatachok near Kirovsk, Russia.

 Nevsky Pyatachok, an area about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of St. Petersburg, has proved especially fertile ground. 

As many as 200,000 Soviet soldiers were killed here between September 1941 and May 1943 in fighting to break the Nazi siege of the city, which was then called Leningrad. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

The volunteers were able to restore the fragile paper note and then track down the relatives of the fallen soldier, Ivan Shagichev, so they could learn where he died and see him properly buried at last.

"I cry and cry," said his daughter, Tamara Zhukova. "I don't know how to explain it. I never saw my father, but it is so important that he was found and I'll have a place to come to speak to him."

Her father had already left for the front when she was born on Sept. 1, 1941, and he was killed two months later.

In this photo taken on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, Tamara Zhukova, left, and Zoya Izotova, second left, sit at the place where remains of their relatives, Soviet soldiers, were uncovered, at Nevsky Pyatachok near Kirovsk, Russia. 

Nevsky Pyatachok. The area about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of St. Petersburg, has proved especially fertile ground. 

As many as 200,000 Soviet soldiers were killed here between September 1941 and May 1943 in fighting to break the Nazi siege of the city, which was then called Leningrad. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, remains of a Soviet soldier are uncovered in a buria site l made in 1943, to be reburied in an official cemetery, near Sinyavino, 50 kms (31 miles) east of St. Petersburg, Russia. 

Volunteer search groups have become increasingly popular in Russia in recent years, attracting people of various ages and professions who spend their weekends and vacations digging for remains on former battlefields. 

They have recovered and buried the remains of thousands of Red Army soldiers. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky).

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