In August 1942, he was called to the front of the Ust-Tar District Military Committee. Demobilised in 1950. He was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the II degree, 11 medals. Mikhail Afanasievich was appointed Head of the Novosibirsk District Finance Department in 1967, where he worked until 1987. He died on 28 May 1993.