Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 172nd Infantry Division (1st Formation). On the radio, Pavlo's grandfather learned about the attack by the German army on the Soviet Union. He was called up to the front by mobilization of the Kamensk Military Commissariat of the Moldavian ASSR on April 17, 1944, as a recruit he was enrolled in the 172 rifle division. I learned that not only young men were called recruits, but even elderly people who had just started military activities ... Studying the chronology of military operations in the spring of 1944, I learned that Pavel Ivanovich was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army on the day when Umansko ended - Botoshan operation, as a result of which the right-bank Ukraine and part of Moldova, including our Transnistria, were liberated. After the end of the Uman-Botoshan operation, the front troops carried out measures to consolidate the liberated territory and bring the troops in order: staffing, repairing military equipment and weapons, organizing a rear service, but on May 14, the 34th Guards Corps began to break through the enemy's defenses in the area between Dubossary and Grigoriopol ... It was in these battles that grandfather Pavlo took part. On the right bank of the Dniester there was the Sherpeni bridgehead, it occupied a plot of land 7-8 km along the front, about 3-4 km deep. The bridgehead was dug up and down with trenches and communication trenches, dug-outs, shelters for horses, firing positions of artillery pieces and mortars. There were trenches ten paces from the coast - the third line of defense. The Germans created a defense around the bridgehead. By July, the rifle corps took up defensive positions in the area of ​​the villages of Shibki and Butor. To repel the attacks of German tanks, a large number of guns were put forward. The enemy troops were defeated. For the first time, my grandfather faced terrible events: injuries of other people, death, the whistle of bullets and the bursting of shells, with exploits and betrayal, here he was seriously wounded in July 1944. Grandfather Pavlo told his children that he did not remember the very moment of the injury. He woke up in the 3807 hospital and was treated there until March 1945. He was treated in the city of Rybnitsa. For the mother, the injury of her son was a terrible pain. And then, having found out where her son was being treated, she walked on foot from the village of Valyadynka to the city of Rybnitsa. Studying the hostilities in the spring of 1944, on the territory of Moldova, I learned that on March 24 Kamenka was liberated from the Nazis, on March 30 - Rybnitsa, on April 12 - Dubossary, Grigoriopol, Tiraspol. By mid-April all Transnistria was liberated from the enemy. After a long treatment, grandfather Pavlo was again in the ranks of the 147th rifle regiment. He participated in the battles during the liberation of Hungary, a few days before the end of the war, the old wound made itself felt and on May 5, 1945, Private Kharhalup again ended up in the 4439 evacuation hospital, where he was treated until August 1945. Grandfather Pavlo met the victorious May 1945 in the hospital. It was a long-awaited and joyful event for all soldiers. And then the long way home, the joy of meeting. Grandfather returned from the war alive, and he devoted his whole life to his family, children and the restoration of the Republic, the Motherland for which he shed blood. All relatives are proud of their hero. Participation in the Great Patriotic War, I think, is already heroism. In peacetime, Kharkhalup Pavel Ivanovich, worked on a collective farm, raised the farm. Together with his wife, Kharhalup Irina Ivanovna, they raised four children: Mikhail, Maria, Peter and Anna. Kharkhalup Pavel Ivanovich died in 2009