Replacing a pipe of the heating pipeline in the north-west of Moscow ended with the discovery of a record amount of artillery shells. Sappers uncovered over 900 unexploded WWII bombs. The people living in neighboring apartment building were evacuated, the traffic was stopped.
Such findings are frequent for Moscow, but the arsenal discovered on March 17 broke all records, RIA Novosti reports.
Defense ministry officials said that the shells, which were supposed to be delivered to a battlefield during the defense of Moscow in 1941, could be abandoned during an air raid of the German aviation.
“There were 916 shells uncovered in total. Detonators were found with 40 of the found shells. They are mostly 76-millimeter shells, but there were also 122-mm and 152 mm shells,” an official of the Moscow EMERCOM said.
The finding became the news of the day in Russia yesterday. All the bombs were taken out of Moscow on seven KamAZ trucks, Pravda.Ru reports.
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