Boris Zhukovskiy was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine (USSR), 1925 to Yakov and Gudina nee Reznikova. He was an uchashchiysya. Prior to WWII he lived in Rostov na Donu, Russia (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Boris was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Undeciphered Place, Hungary, 1945.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.