Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tenei wa ko tetahi waahanga o te Soviet Air Defence Forces, i akohia a Moskvitelev i roto i te kore o te Air Defence Military Command Academy, a i te tau 1967 ka riro ia hei kaitiaki tuarua mo te rererangi o te 8th Air Defence Army. I whai wāhi ia ki te
te whakauru hoia ki Czechoslovakia i te Spring Prague i te tau 1968, a muri ake ka noho hei kaiawhina rangatira, katahi ka rangatira o te waahanga rererangi o te Rohe Parenga o Moscow. I te Paenga-whawha 1977 ka riro ia hei rangatira mo te waahanga rererangi o te Soviet Air Defence Forces katoa, ana i roto i te tekau tau e whai ake nei ka tirotiro ia i te whakauru o nga hangarau hou me nga momo rererangi ki nga Air Defence Forces. I te tau 1987 i tohua ia hei māngai ki te Tumuaki o nga Kaha o nga Whenua o Warsaw Pact, tae noa ki tana reti i te tau 1990.