The media found the sender of a Russian letter in a bottle found off the coast of Alaska

In early August, an Alaskan resident Tyler Ivanoff discovered a handwritten Russian letter in a bottle sent 50 years ago by the crew of a Russian (then Soviet) ship. Despite the fact that the letter was waiting in the wings for half a century, the sender was found in just a few days.

Photo: Facebook / Tyler Ivanoff

“I was just looking for firewood... When I found the bottle, I had to use a screwdriver to get the letter out,” Ivanoff said. “It was dry inside and still smelled of wine or something, old alcohol. The note was dry,” writes The Telegraph.

Ivanoff shared his discovery on Facebook, where Russian-speaking users translated the message: it turned out that this was a greeting from the Soviet sailor during the Cold War, dated 20 on June 1969.

“Warm greetings from the Russian fleet of the Far Eastern Shipping Company. Fleet V.R.H.F. from p / b Sulak. I welcome you who will find this bottle, please inform us at the mountains. Vladivostok-43 V.R.H.F. from the Sulak sub-station to the entire crew. ”

The senders wished the finder good health, long life and happy sailing.

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Collage: ForumDaily. Photo: Facebook / Tyler Ivanoff

Reporters from the Rossiya-1 TV channel found the author of the note, captain Anatoly Prokofievich Botsanenko. He was initially skeptical about the note's story until he saw his signature at the bottom.

A bottle with a message dated 1969 from the crew of the Soviet mother ship Sulak was thrown into the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to commemorate the crew's achievements, he said. RIA News captain himself.

"A big joy! It is surprising that exactly 50 years later the message was found. I personally received this ship. A huge ship. The pride of my work. Then, in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, we received good news about production achievements, the fulfillment of the plan of our ship, our crew. And then one of the crew members suggested writing a message and putting it in a bottle. What if someone somewhere remembers this, or we meet somewhere, let it be like a memory. And they threw him into the sea. The bottle traveled very far, at least 2000 miles” (about 3700 km), Botsanenko said.

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According to the captain of the Sulak floating base, at that time he was 36 years old and was the youngest captain in the entire Far Eastern Fleet. He admitted that he felt proud because the crew was among the best. Botsanenko said that there were 350 people on board the mother ship who processed 500 tons of fish.

The Sulak mother ship was built in Yokohama, Japan in 1966, and was decommissioned in 1992.

Captain Botsanenko fought back tears when a Russian TV reporter told him that the Sulak was sold for scrap in the 1990s.

Ivanoff wrote on Facebook, "It's pretty cool how a little photo turned into a story," and said he and his kids might one day send their own message in a bottle to see if anyone finds it.

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