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Kamanin returned to the place of the accident and ordered a group of doctors to remove Komarov's body from the ship's wreckage...at 21.45 (Moscow time) Komarov's remains were placed aboard the II-18 airplane. Ten minutess before departure an An-12 arrived from the cosmodrome with General Kuznetsov and the Soyuz-2 prime and back-up cosmonauts, who would accompany their perished colleague to Moscow...Komarov's remains were transferred to the morgue of the Burdenko hospital in Moscow, allowing doctors to write an official report on the cause of death. Subsequently the remains were cremated and an urn with the ashes was placed in the central House of the Soviet Army later that day were endless line of people came to pay their respects. The following day Komarov's ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall.
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