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During the Continuation War, Finnish long-range scouts made reconnaissance trips, but destruction patrols were also sent from time to time to the enemy side. One of the most famous extermination trips of the long-range patrolmen was from February 8 to 16, 1942, on that trip the supply center at Petrovski Jam was destroyed. This operation is considered one of the biggest successes of Finland's long-range reconnaissance operations, and it came as a complete surprise to the Red Army. This largest service center on the Maaselä isthmus was established at the beginning of 1942 in a village called Petrovski Jam on the shores of Uikujärvi and Uikujoki. The matter touches me as much, because Aleksanteri, who was from Karhumäki, asked me in the summer of 2018 to go to the area of Lumbus, Voljärvi and Uikujärvi to look for missing Finns, but I had to leave those tasks to younger men. He had heard about the book Taistellen Karhumäkee that I had published that spring, in which I covered the events of the Karhumäki, Povetsa, Voljärvi and Malu fronts in January-February 1942. In a neighboring village, a few kilometers from where I live, Onni Määttänen, a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross, who was also on this Petrovski Jam trip, lived with. On the Petrovski Jam trip there were also other scouts who were later appointed Knights of the Mannerheim Cross. I have changed the photos in the video into color images using image processing programs. #Kaukopartio #Huoltokeskus #Karhumäki #Poventsa #Lumbusi #Voljärvi #Pirunsaari #Kalajärvi #Konzajärvi #Uikujärvi #Uikujoki #Mannerheimristi #Marmo #Pöllä #Honkanen #Määttänen #ilomantsi #