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Kenraali Sergei Kabanov rakennutti itselleen maanalaisen komentokeskuksen Hankoon sen jälkeen, kun Natsi Saksa oli hyökännyt...

Reporter Hanna Koivisto and photographer Linda Baarman visited us during the autumn dig of general Sergei Kabanovs underground command...

The trial excavations 1.-5.10.2021 have proved that the remains of the underground command post are much larger than anticipated. The...

Excavating a large WW2 underground command post is very hard work. On the second day of the dig and after two days of hard work we have...

Was general Sergei Kabanov leading the defence of Hanko from a re-inforced and fortified underground shelter or was the reality possibly...

During the last week of September 2021 we finished the excavations near Hanko Front Museum. A reconstruction of the shelter will now be...

New scientific WW2 battlefield archaeology excavations coming up this autumn. The registration fee is only 20 euros for five days (you...

Today we managed to collect and document all of the finds on the floor level of the shelter. Many nice finds attributable to lieutenant...

Today was the 7th day of the battlefield archaeology excavation in Hanko. Work continued with the careful excavation of the floor level...

Day 6 of the WW2 battlefield archaeology dig in Hanko S. Finland where archaeology students BA Fanny Fagerholm (University of Uppsala)...

On the fifth day of the excavation we took it very slow and excavated level 2,5 of the shelter. It seems we are approaching the floor...

After a wonderful evening and calm night in the archipelago it was back to business as usual. The excavation of the burnt down WW2...

The third day of the "Hamsterbo" (Hamsters nest) shelter was a hot one. During the day the temperature rose to over +30 degrees Celsius...

Today was the second day of our ten day long project to excavate and document a burnt down underground shelter on the Hanko front. Hanko...

I woke up at 5 AM and took the two hour long drive from Helsinki to Hanko to meet up with "Sjöba" at the Hanko Front Museum. Towards...

Toisessa maailmansodassa, vuosina 1939-1945 kuoli maailmanlaajuisesti yli 60 miljoonaa ihmistä. Monet omaiset eri maissa eivät vieläkään...

Many unique finds were found during the past excavation season of the Hanko 1941 project and now it´s time to clean, sort and identify...

It was a tremendous pleasure to be part of this day when a large group of forty students from Kallion lukio visited the WW2 sites of...

Last summer we successfully located and trial excavated the site of the Hamsters nest ("Hamsterbo") shelter that burned and collapsed...

What is the ethical justfication of exhuming KIA soldiers in the 21st Century within the EU and elsewhere in the world? Why is this...