The discovery was made by specialists from the Underwater Research Center of the Russian Geographical Society during their expedition of the waters surrounding Gogland, a Russian island located in the Gulf of Finland in the eastern Baltic Sea.
"We are happy to share our results: of the nine areas around the island, we have already examined five and found several sunken ships: two vessels belonging to the Petrine era [1682 —1725, the years of reign of Peter the Great] and one ship of the World War II times, as well as four other object, which we are currently identifying," the organization reported on its official website.
Another group of researchers conducted a sonar survey of the waters near the islands of Gogland and Bolshoi Tyuters to find warships and vessels lost in the end of August 1941 during the Soviet evacuation of Tallinn [a Soviet operation to evacuate Baltic Fleet ships, Red Army units and pro-Soviet civilians during the German invasion; over 12,000 were killed and 62 vessels sunk after striking mines and due to heavy German shelling and aerial bombardment].