Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan an tattara shi cikin Red Army ya halarci Makarantar 'Yan Bindigar Orel kafin a tura shi zuwa fagen yaƙi lokacin mamayewar Jamusawa na Tarayyar Soviet tare da matsayin ƙaramin laftanan a matsayin wani ɓangare na 412th Rifle Regiment. Ya ga yaki a Yammacin
, Don, Kudu maso Yamma da kuma Steppe fronts. Ya ji rauni sau biyu a lokacin rabin rabin 1941, kuma a ƙarshen 1941 an ba shi mukamin kwamandan kwamandan. Bayan kammala karatunsa daga kwas din kaifi a shekarar 1942 ya ci gaba da aiki a matsayin kwamandan bataliya har sai da aka sake raunata shi a watan Disamba. A wannan shekarar ya shiga jam'iyyar Kwaminis.