A fine spring day in Rostov-on-Don was not much without the diggers.
There were three dozen of them - archaeologists, historians, scholars, and volunteers, all bound and determined by their love of the history and the outrage of it all.
The fields were mossy and borne of peat and water. A forest of Linden trees seemed to be the only thing keeping everything in place: tangles of hardwood roots snaked through the rich loam, The Kirov Oblast, a small municipality in northern central Ukraine, had a significant place in history. Tens of thousands of men had fallen in the bloody five-month Battle of Stalingrad.
