He served in Army since 1932; A participant of the liberation campaign in Western Belarus, war with Finland (1939-1940); participant of the Great Patriotic War. Since July 1941 he worked as the commander of the artillery battery of the 2nd motorized rifle regiment of the OMSBON troops of the NKVD, USSR; the commander of the partisan unit "Groza", "Gvardiya", operating in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland; executive officer of a battalion of a separate special-purpose unit of the NKVD / NKGB of the USSR; engineer major. After the war he worked in leading positions in the OSHOSDOR system of the NKVD / USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, head of the Regional Administration of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")