Burial place of Red Army soldier Ivan Bakurin at the suburb cemetery in Dolní Počernice district in Prague, Czech Republic. According the inscription on the tombstone, Ivan Bakurin died during the liberation of Prague on 10 May 1945. The nearby street was named after him in 1974. In fact Ivan Bakurin has never existed and Soviet military officer Vasily Polosin is buried in this grave. Sergeant Vasily Ivanovich Polosin was born in 1908 and served in the Red Army during World War II. He was crushed by a Soviet tank on 10 May 1945 in Dolní Počernice.

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