This short video shows the very exact and rare moment that a World War II Soviet soldier's identification tag (known as a medallion) is found on the former battlefields of Stalingrad. The medallion consisted of a plastic tube containing a rolled up piece of paper on which the soldier's details were written. These tubes are only found with approximately 1% of the thousands of bodies that are still discovered every year.

CrocodileTear Productions with courtesy to the Russian diggers who filmed this scene.
Music: The Other Side of the Door, by Kevin McLeod

Excavations - Battlefield Archaeology - WWII - metal detecting - missing soldiers - Russia - Soviet Union - Red Army - Battle of Stalingrad - killed in action - The Stalingrad digging camp -

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