In a tragic turn of events, a Russian couple who had been missing for nearly 12 years were finally found in 2017, their car submerged in the River Volga in central Russia.
Ilya Zhirnov, 25, and his girlfriend Kira Cherkasova, 22, disappeared in December 2005, after Ilya borrowed his father’s car to pick up Kira from work.
Despite an extensive search at the time of their disappearance, no trace of the couple or the car was found, and the case was eventually closed due to a lack of evidence. However, their families never gave up hope that Ilya and Kira would one day be found.
Twelve years ago, in the central Russian city of Cheboksary, two young people, ages twenty-five and twenty-two, respectively, named Ilya Zhirnov and Kira Cherkasova, vanished from sight. Until the amateur diver discovered their automobile at the bottom of the river, no one knew what had happened to them.
The police claimed that the car had been submerged for more than ten years.
