HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Branch of troops: Artillery Subdivision: 70th Infantry Upper Dnieper Order of Suvorov Division Born in Ukraine, from the peasants. In 1909. parents moved to Karaganda Region (Kazakhstan). He got married in 1920 on Lozyana Ekaterina Maksimovna. They had 10 children, only five survived to adulthood. He had served in active military service since 1925. to 1928 After service, he worked in different years as a procurer of agricultural products, a communications officer (feldegel) of the Karaganda Operational Sector of the OGPU under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, from 08/05/1939. He worked in the Karaganda Region, in the office of the State Bank as a collector. He was drafted into the Red Army on 06/20/1942. to the combat unit of the 60th Reserve Rifle Regiment as a private. Soon after his father, his eldest son Afanasy, born in 1924 volunteered for the front. In the family, eight letters from the front have been preserved from his father. In the first two letters dated 01.28.1943. and 02.24.1943. Parkhomenko P. L. writes that he was wounded and is in a hospital in Penza. After recovery, he was again sent to the front. The last letter sent on 09/13/1944 is of interest. One month before his death, in which it is written that he sent the family some little money, 1000 rubles, received for knocked out German tanks. He was sorry that the amount is small, since he receives only 23 rubles a month and gives awat 10 rubles for bonds. He also reports that he received from the government the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Red Army Soldier Parkhomenko Porfiry Lavrentievich was killed by a fragment of a German mine in the combat for the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda and was buried in a mass grave of 30 soldiers near the village of Misaiken. After the war, the remains of those buried in a mass grave were transferred to the military cemetery in Dovilay. Unfortunately, on the memorial plates of the cemetery in Deauvilai. The surname P.L. Parkhomenko is absent, which is explained by insufficient attention to this issue on the part of the Russian consulate who decided to reconstruct the memorial plates at the military cemetery in Deauville.