Pyotr Solodukhin

[2] He was briefly a worker at the Sestroretsk arms factory, but with his military experience, Solodukhin was in spring 1918 dispatched to the front as the Russian Civil War was fought.

Solodukhin was appointed commander of the 6th Rifle Division and in November pushed Yudenich back, liberating Yamburg on 5 August 1919.

Solodukhin was then deployed to the Southern Front, where he became commander of the 9th Rifle Division, serving alongside political commissar Semyon Voskov [ru].

Here Solodukhin and the division were in action against White general Anton Denikin's forces during the Orel–Kursk operation, pushing them out of dozens of cities.

[2] As the Red Army advanced against the remaining White forces in southern Ukraine, Solodukhin, by now having been appointed to command the 15th Rifle Division, came up against those of Pyotr Wrangel.

In an attempt to push back the Red forces, the White's 34th Infantry Division, supported by cavalry, artillery, armored cars and aviation attacked between Bolshaya Mayachka and Chornyanka [ru], dividing the 43rd and 45th Brigades and advancing on Korsun Monastery.

[2][5] His commissar in the 9th Rifle Division, Semyon Voskov, is also buried at the monument, having died of typhus in Taganrog after that city had been taken by the Red Army.