In the Baltic Sea found sunken Soviet submarine.

In the territorial waters of Sweden, not far from the Aland Islands discovered Soviet submarine P-2, sunk during the Soviet-Finnish war years 1939-1940, transmits ITAR-TASS news agency.

The boat found the Swedish-Finnish group of divers to focus its search in 1999. It is noted that the fore submarine was destroyed by the explosion, making it difficult to identify the ship.

The exact location of the P-2, which is considered a military maritime grave remains unknown. Diver hand over the coordinates of the Swedish authorities, who decide on their publication.

P-2, aboard which were 50 crew, hit an underwater mine, for one to 2, on the other, the 3rd January 1940 in the Southern Strait of quarks, separating Aland Islands from the Scandinavian peninsula. Submarine was the largest tonnage of a ship that sank in the Soviet-Finnish war.

It is noted that the P-2 had the task of penetration in the Gulf of Bothnia to act on maritime communication opponent. As the agency Rosbalt version that the boat was blown up on a mine, made by the Military Council Baltflota immediately after her death. Presumably on the fence of mine could make the underlying currents.