Rank: colonel. Service rank: Artillery. Division: Artillery: 46th Luzhkov Rifle Division of the Suvorov Order. Professional officer, Colonel. When the war began Vasily Alexandrovich was a cadet of the 3rd Leningrad Artillery School. Leningrad Artillery School. From August 1941 to November 1941 Lieutenant, Deputy Company Commander for Artillery 282 was a separate artillery and machine-gun battalion. The battalion fought in the high altitude area of Duderhof, especially on the Kraehenberg. After the retreat it took up defensive positions on the Pulkovo Heights. From November 1941 to December 1941 it held the rank of first lieutenant, commander of the battery of the 296th Rifle Regiment of the 13th Rifle Division. In December 1941 he was wounded and after his discharge from the hospital he was appointed Commander of the battery of the artillery regiment of the 20th Rifle Division of the NKVD troops. The division was renamed the 92nd Rifle Division. 60th Artillery Regiment. In September 1942 he was sent to the advanced training courses of the command staff. In December he was promoted to the rank of Captain and transferred to the 46th Rifle Division, the 393rd Artillery Regiment. From December 1942 to September 1944 Captain, Battery Commander, from September 1944 to March 1945 Chief of Staff of the Division, from March 1945 to October 1945 Division Commander. He was a member of the 46th Luschkaja Rifle Division of the Suvorov Order from the Neva to the island of Ruegen. Leningrad Front, 2nd Belarusian Front. He took part in the fighting on the Karelian isthmus, in the area Nevskaya Dubrovka, in the operation Novgorod - Luga, in the liberation of Estonia, in the offensive operations East Prussian and East Pomeranian