Bocharnikova Maria Pavlovna. Born in 1923. In 1942 she volunteered for the front. She served on the 2nd Ukrainian Front in the mechanized cavalry corps. Maria Pavlovna had to do different work. She was a medical instructor, carried wounded soldiers out from the battlefield and bandaged them, worked in a hospital. During the war she had to shoot more than once, was wounded and treated in a hospital and even was surrounded. Together with her brother-soldiers Maria Pavlovna took part in the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Austria. She celebrated Victory Day in Germany.