May 8, 2010 military funeral honors for unknown Soviet soldiers who died near Taganrog and reinterment of their ashes at Mariupolskoe Cemetery of Taganrog were held. The remains were found by the Rostov-based military patriotic club "Posledniy Sled Voyni" (literally means "The last trace of war").

The funeral honors were held in front of the Alexander Nevsky Chapel at Mariupolskoe Cemetery, with Mayor of Taganrog Nikolay Fedyanin, Chair of City Council Yuri Stefanov, councilors, members of civil organizations, Cossacks, students of Neklinovka Flyer School and many more.

It is estimated that there are over 15000 official soldier graves of WWII period in the territory of Russia where over 2.5 million soldiers are buried, but still most soldiers who died remain unknown and lay without monument or grave.The search and burial of the remains, the search for the truth about the Great Patriotic War is the main task of the search organizations.

"The echo of the Great Patriotic War still within our thoughts and our hearts" told Mayor Fedyanin in his speech at the funeral service. "The common opinion that the war is not over until the last soldier is buried has a colossal meaning! We bow our heads before all those who participated in that war and fell defending our Motherland from the enemy, and before all those who came home after the Victory Day".