May 12, 2015. Thanks to Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s company newspaper Mashinostroitel Elena Dementieva, the company’s long-service employee, learned about what happened to her brother, seventy years after the war’s end.

According to the corporation’s press service, Memorium, a Moldavian NGO that did some excavation work in Sološnica, Slovakia and found some dead soldiers’ personal belongings, asked the newspaper to assist in locating the relatives of nineteen Nizhniy Tagil natives.

‘Sergeant Timothy Kosarev’s nephew Valeriy Kuzminykh called the newspaper the very next day; Kuzminykh works at Uralvagonzavod’s technological equipment department. Anatoly Gordeyev, Kosarev’s other nephew, had worked at the plant for over two decades. Kosarev’s sister Elena Dementieva spent forty years working as a crane operator at Foundry Department 2. For seventy years, his family had no information about the soldier whatsoever,’ the press service says.

Timophy Kosarev perished in April 1941 at the time when the German-controlled airport within six kilometers of Sološnica was attacked. A fifty-soldier unit was directed to target the strategically important location. The Soviet troops had no armored vehicles or artillery weapons at their disposal, so they were in for close combat. The 23-year-old Kosarev had to control the unit after the commander had been killed. The airport was overtaken in the morning, with Soviet planes landing there on the same day. There were a lot of casualties on both sides, Kosarev among them. He was buried at the village cemetery along with twenty-five other soldiers.