Grave with the body of Sergey Sadilenko

Ukrainian soldiers unload the grave with the body of the dead commander of the 8th turbine compartment, from the sank "Kursk" (on August 12, 2000) lieutenant commander Sergey Sadilenko, 24, on the Zaporizhia Railway Station on Sunday, November 5, 2000. On the very same day the grave, accompanied by officers of the reserved crew of the nuclear submarine "Kursk" and father of the dead captain was transported to Zaporizhia by train Moscow-Simferopol. From the station the body was transported to village Balochki, Zaporizhska oblast, where Sadilenko lived. According to the head of the group which accompanied the grave Sergey Kravtsov, the body of Sadilenko was found in the 9th compartment. The latter confirms that at the moment of catastrophe Sadilenko was alive. Photo by Egor Sapronov/ UNIAN