The Playground complex "Stalin Line" supplemented with a new rare exhibits - the instrument of the PA-27, which was used in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA), BelTA learned from deputy director of the charity fund assistance to soldiers-internationalists "Afghan Memory" Alexander Golubovic.
According to him, this gun accidentally discovered snorkellers in the Western Dvina river Vitebsk region in 2013. They reported this to colleagues from Minsk diving club "Captain Morgan", which was pulled from the river gun in June this year. "We gave it unselfishly to supplement the exposure," - said Alexander Golubovic. Nakhodka restored. It is not able to restore the native panel, as it is virtually destroyed by corrosion.
Deputy director of the charitable foundation said that he could not say for sure whether there are guns in other Belarusian museums, but even if such exhibits and can be seen somewhere else in the country, it is very rare. Perhaps because many of these guns were melted down after WWII.
In the Red Army cannon PA-27 played a role regimental gun (caliber 76 mm). Its main purpose - to support the infantry. It was the first Soviet development in this area, which is integrated into mass production. The gun is produced from 1928 to 1943. To have survived quite a few samples, although in the USSR were produced about 18 thousand.