More than two million Soviet soldiers are still considered missing during the Great Patriotic War, said Mikhail Myagkov, scientific director of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO). RIA News.
“Thanks to the efforts of search engines, there are fewer unknown soldiers,” he said.
Myagkov said that in the early 90s, a commission of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation determined the total number of irreparable losses of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War – 8.6 million soldiers.
According to the scientific director, since the creation of the RVIO, search teams have found the remains of more than 11 thousand Soviet soldiers, of which 800 have been identified.
Myagkov expressed the hope that the artificial intelligence technologies that are beginning to be used today can speed up the identification process of those killed in the Great Patriotic War: “For example, in the future, thanks to artificial intelligence, it will be possible to establish the identity of a warrior and restore his appearance from the remains.
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