Volunteers of the Polish Commonwealth "Kursk" visited the Soviet military cemetery in Olawa (Poland). There was established name of another hero of the Great Patriotic War, Petrochuk Anton Tarasovich, which found eternal peace here. It took daughter more than 20 years to find the grave of her father.

A resident of the city of Nizhny Tagil - Nelli Antonovna Ovsyannikova addressed a request to the Russian Military Historical Society to visit the grave of her father, buried in Poland. The woman was looking for her father's grave for many years. Now she is 81 years old, and recently she received a response from the Center for Tracing and Information of the Russian Red Cross, indicating the burial number and address of his location in the Republic of Poland: the Soviet military cemetery in Olawa, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. The surname of her father is Petrochuk (Anton Tarasovich) was included in the lists of soldiers buried in this cemetery.

-"For more than twenty years I've been looking for the burial place of my father - Petrochuk Anton Tarasovich, born in 1908. I had a certificate from the military registration and enlistment office that according to the information of 1945 he was buried in Germany, in the village of Neu Schlesing. And all the archives answered one thing: "He's missing." And only recently, with the help of the Red Cross of Russia, it turned out that his grave is in Poland. Part of Germany, where he died, after the war went to Poland. Noah Schlesing was renamed, so for many years I had been searching in vain for this village in Germany. At the time I started my search, I was 20 years younger. Now I’m in poor health, but the dream to visit my father's grave does not leave me until now, as if my duty is a debt to the deceased father, " Nelly Ovsyannikova wrote.

Due to her health, Nelly Antonovna could not go to Poland. Volunteers from the Polish Commonwealth "Kursk" helped her to fulfill this dream. The President of the Commonwealth Jerzy Tyc visited the grave of Anton Tarasovich Petrochuk and laid flowers on behalf of his daughter.

- Petrochuk Anton Tarasovich is resting in the common grave #290. Unfortunately, there is no plaque with his name. We will definitely install such a plaque, " promised Jerzy Tyc.

We remind that the Commonwealth "Kursk" regularly carries out actions to preserve and restore Soviet military burial sites and monuments in Poland.

Reference about the activities of The Russian Military Historical Society