On the eve of the Victory Day, the staff of the Sevastopol Investigations Directorateof the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation visited a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and the prosecuting authorities Yuri Petrovich Shabanov and a veteran of the the prosecuting authorities Yuri Pavlovich Zelyanin.

Yuri Petrovich Shabanov began his combat career in 1942, when he was drafted into the Soviet Army. In 1943, he graduated from the tank school, received his first tank and went straight to the front. Starting from the Kursk Bulge, he went along the Belgorod Highway, through the Western Ukraine, Poland, and Germany and finished the war in Berlin. He was a tank driver and demobilized with the rank of sergeant. He was awarded many state awards, including the Order of the Patriotic War degree I, the Order of the Red Banner, medals "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War", "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the liberation of Ukraine", "For the capture of Berlin".

Yuri Petrovich Shabanov is also a prosecuting authorities’ veteran. Having joined the ranks of the prosecuting authorities in 1961, he had been working for more than 25 years in the positions of investigator, senior assistant prosecutor, and the district prosecutor. Yuri Petrovich Shabanov has many departmental awards.

Yuri Pavlovich Zelyanin is a prosecuting authorities’ veteran. Starting his career as a simple investigator in 1960, he had been heading the Sevastopol Prosecutor’s Officer for 11 years. Yuri Pavlovich Zelyanin dedicated more than thirty three years to serving the law. He retired in 1993.

Veterans gladly spoke with investigators. Yuri Petrovich Shabanov told about his combat path and even showed pictures he had preserved. Yuri Pavlovich Zelyanin recalled the years of work by the investigator, shared his memories of criminal investigations, the circumstances of which he still remembers in detail.