Rank: Lieutenant Commander. Branch of service: Artillery. Pyotr Solovyov (June 5, 1909-may 18, 1984) was born in Kharkiv at the beginning of the 20th century. In Kharkiv, in a large paternal house (14 Plekhanovskaya street), the father of the family Semyon Filimonovich had three sons: Vladimir (the elder), Peter (the middle) and Dmitry (the younger). Dmitry fought in the Anti-aircraft Forces during the Great Patriotic war and after the war was the chairman of kholhoz in the village of Krugloe, Svatovsky district, Luhansk region. There were three daughters as well – Polina (her husband died in the war, and her daughter went to Vladivostok), Evdokia and Daria. Pyotr Semyonovich really wanted to become an artist and had the ability to do so, but did not enter the Academy of arts on the basis of class, as he was from a family of former merchants. Therefore, he remained an amateur artist, although he painted a lot of paintings to order. In the 1930s, Solovyov Pyotr Semyonovich was drafted into the army and served as an artillery officer – Senior Lieutenant in three wars: the Japanese, the Finnish and the Great Patriotic war. He fought on the Kursk bulge near the city of Novy Oskol in the Kursk (now Belgorod) region. He participated in the Voronezh-Kastorien offensive operation of the Voronezh Front troops on January 24 - February 2, 1943. As a result of the fighting, the 40th Army units liberated the Eastern part of the territory of the Belgorod region. In the battle for Novy Oskol, soldiers and commanders of the 183rd Rifle Division, commanded by Major General A. S. Kostitsin, were killed. Pyotr Semyonovich's relatives, the parents of his wife Anna Maksimovna Maximova (it had been her family name before she got married), also died there. His wife Anna managed to hide their daughter and grandchildren in the basement of the house. On the birth certificate of Pyotr Semyonovich's son, two-year-old Nikolai, the blood of his grandmother remained forever. Soldiers and residents were buried in a mass grave in a square located in the center of the city. Solovyov Pyotr Semyonovich was awarded the medals "For bravery", "For the capture of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star (awarded by Rokossovsky), the Order of the Patriotic War II class.