Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te timatanga o te Operation Barbarossa i te 22 o Pipiri 1941, ko te Major Seryugin i whakahau i te reimana i te Runga ki te Tonga ki te Hauauru, i arahi i nga Pakanga Taitapa ki te hauauru o Stanislav me te waahanga Vinnytsia ki te tonga o Uman. I te marama o Hepetema i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te whakahau o te 124th Rifle Division engari kaore i mau ki te whakahau na te mea i mau te 124th i te whakapae. I whakaritea a Seryugin hei rangatira mo nga kaimahi o te 212th Rifle Division, i whawhai ai ia i te Donbass Defensive me te
Barvenkovo<unk>Lozovaya whakaeke hei waahanga o te 6 o nga ope taua o te Tonga ki te Hauauru. I te marama o Mei 1942, ka tohua a Koronela Seryugin hei kaiawhina rangatira mo te wehenga, i a ia e mahi tonu ana hei rangatira mo nga kaimahi. I whawhai ia ki a ia i te Pakanga Tuarua o Kharkov, i te wa i karapotia ai te wehenga. I te timatanga o Hune ka pakaru a Seryugin i te karapoti, ka whiti ki te taha rawhiti o te Seversky Donets me nga toenga o te 212.