Since November 1941 he took part in battles on the Kalinin, 2nd Baltic and 1st Belorussian fronts - he rose from platoon commander to battery commander of the 185th division of the 171st Idritskaya infantry division, Guard First Lieutenant; participant in the liberation of Poland and Warsaw, the capture of Berlin and the storming of the Reichstag; Awards: two Orders of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", etc. After the war he worked in leadership positions in the forestry of the Crimean region of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")