In the Red Army since 1939; In the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was company political instructor of the 42nd Motor Rifle Regiment, 42nd Rifle Division; by the end of the war he was a battalion commander of the 920th Rifle Regiment of the 247th Rifle Division, major; participant in the battle of the defense of Moscow, battles for the cities Klin, Rzhev, Kovel, crossing Eatern Bug river, liberation of Warsaw; Vistula-Oder operation; awarded of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (Feb. 1945) for crossing Vistula river and battles to expand the bridgehead. After the war he served as military commissar of the Abinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, Deputy Chairman of the Absheron Regional Executive Committee, forester of the Abinsky forestry enterprise ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")