The Monument to the Liberator Soldier (Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Воїну-визволителю, Russian: Памятник Воину-освободителю), commonly called "Pavlusha" (Ukrainian: Павлуша, Russian: Павлуша),[1] is a large monument in Kharkiv to the Red Army troops who recaptured the city from Nazi Germany in 1943.

[2] The centerpiece is a large statue of a Red Army soldier with a carbine raised high in his right hand.

Previously, this had been the responsibility of the Green Areas Trust, but this body was now defunct, and so the monument had not been maintained for a decade, and required attention including testing for structural integrity, cleaning, and refacing of the pedestal.

The project was completed within six months, in time for Victory Day (May 9) of 2010.

In 2013, the National Bank of Ukraine issued a commemorative coin, "Liberation of Kharkiv from the Fascist Invaders", as part of the series Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, showing the statue on the obverse.