went to fight on July 1, 1941, went through the Battle of Stalingrad, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For the Defense of Moscow". Major rank. Together with the battalion commander, we did a great job of educating the personnel and preparing them for military operations for the Motherland, against the enemy. With the arrival of the battalion to the combat line of the eastern bank of the Volga River in the area of ​​Lotoshanka, Tomilino, Vinnovka, northeast of Stalingrad. The personnel of the battalion performed the assigned task in an exemplary manner and destroyed 11 heavily fortified firing points with manpower in their defense sector from October 20 to December 10, 1942, and suppressed the fire of 86 enemy firing points and had almost no losses on their side. From December 10, 1942 to January 10, 1943, the battalion made a 150 km crossing with a crossing over the Volga River, having all the weapons in its hands. Almost in the absence of transport, he occupied and firmly defended an exceptionally important line within the fortified area, encircling the enemy group at Stalingrad in the vicinity of the farm Sklyarov, Breslavsky, Stary Rogachik. The personnel of the battalion, despite the extremely difficult conditions (cold, lack of fuel, transport, lack of dugouts and dugouts) honorably fulfilled the task assigned to him by the command of the fortified area. He destroyed 3 guns, 18 machine-gun points, 7 dugouts, 2 observation posts, 5 vehicles, 2 mortars, destroyed and scattered to the enemy infantry battalion. During the general offensive to destroy the surrounded group of enemy troops at Stalingrad.