North Ossetia: "Memorial-Avia" looks for relatives of lost military pilots

The NGO named "Memorial-Avia" and active in North Ossetia continues searching relatives of the military pilots who perished during the Great Patriotic War (WWII) in fight for the Caucasus.

The search involves the opportunities of the Internet, printed mass media, radio and television, as Sergey Poroshin, head of the NGO, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"We've sent the data about ten pilots who perished in the course of the fierce battle for the Caucasus and were buried in our republic to the TV programme 'Zhdi Menya' (Wait for Me) that is broadcast by Channel One," said Mr Poroshin. "We managed to establish their names and now want to find their relatives, who probably don't know how the courageous pilots had died."

Among the ten pilots who had been so far regarded as missing, there are Piotr Gvozdovskiy, a native of the Voronezh Region, and Pavel Parfyonov from the Leningrad Region. Both were buried in Mairamadag village, Alagir District.

The head of the "Memorial-Avia" also hopes that relatives of second lieutenant Nakhero Isidor Monteko, whose plane from the 182nd Fighter Regiment was shot down in August 1942, could be found somewhere in Spain.