Boris Plavnik was born in Pukhovichi, Belorussia (USSR), 1925 to Girsh and Rakhil. He was a pupil and teenager. Prior to WWII he lived in Pukhovichi, Belorussia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Boris was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1943.
Large numbers of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied military forces, many of them in the Soviet army, were killed in combat or died of battle wounds.