In late 2020, a monument to Heroes of Deer Transport Battalions was opened in Murmansk
Fighters of the deer transport troop. Karelian front, 1944© Archive of the Murmansk Regional Museum of Local Lore
MOSCOW, May 14. /TASS/. During the war, in the North, deer were used as transport. They carried shells, food, wood and fuel, evacuated the injured, searched for crashed planes. TASS is telling about the deer transport and involvement of the Saami - the Kola Peninsula’s low-numbered indigenous people, who have lived with those animals for centuries.
The Red Army used deer for the first time in the Winter War (also known as the First Soviet-Finnish War, November 30, 1939 - March 13, 1940).
Voronya
Smolenskaya-oblast
Russia
Moscow
Moskva
Lovozero
Murmanskaya-oblast
Loparskaya
Krasnoshchelye
Tuloma
Finland
Kola-peninsula