Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te marama o Hurae i tohua a Seryugin hei rangatira mo te 160th Rifle Division, hei waahanga o te 6 Army o te Voronezh Front i wehewehe i a ia ano i te Pakanga o Voronezh. I muri mai, ko te 160th i whawhai hei waahanga o te Voronezh, mai i te marama o Tihema i te taha ki te Hauauru, me te mahi kaha ki te Mahi Little Saturn. I whara ia i te 18 o Hui-tanguru 1943 i a ia e wehe ana mo te tirotiro i te rohe o Height 179.6 ka nekehia atu ki te hohipera mo te maimoatanga, ka whakakapihia e te kaihautū o te rangatira o te wehenga a Colonel Aleksei Baksov. I whakahoutia e Seryugin te whakahau o te wehenga i te Paenga-whawha 9, a, i hurihia te 160 ki te 89th Guards Rifle Division i te Paenga-whawha 19. I arahina e ia i te whakaeke rautaki o Donbas, te Pakanga o Dnieper, te whakaeke o Nikopol<unk>Krivoi Rog, te Bereznegovatoye<unk>Snigirevka whakaeke, me te whakaeke o Odessa. I whakatairangahia a Seryugin ki te rangatira nui i te 1 o Mahuru 1943. I waenga i te 2 o Hune me te 5 o Hurae 1944 Seryugin i whakahau mo te wa poto i te 49th Rifle Corps i te tuarua o te 53rd Army o te 2nd Ukrainian Front i te wa o te hohipera o te rangatira o te roopu a Major General Gury Terentyev. Whai muri i te hokinga mai o te whakamutunga, ka hoki ano a Seryugin ki te rangatira o te 89th Guards, i whawhai i te
Ko te whakaeke tuarua a Jassy<unk>Kishinev hei waahanga o te 5 o nga Ope Taua. I aromatawaihia ia hei "kaiarahi i nga waahanga wehenga" i roto i te pakaru o nga paruru Axis i te rohe o Kishinev me te whakahoki i nga whakaeke a te tank. I whakaahuatia a Seryugin e mahi ana "i te kaha me te mohio" ahakoa te noho o nga tanki Axis i muri o te wehenga.