Kammala wannan jumla: An haifi Kirpichenko a ranar 25 ga Satumba 1922 a Kursk, Kursk Oblast, wani ɓangare na Rasha SFSR, a cikin USSR. Ya halarci Makarantar Musamman ta Sojojin Sama mai lamba 4, wanda ke ba da horo na farko na jirgin sama tare da karatun sakandare na yau da kullun. Ya ci gaba da halartar Kwalejin Injiniya ta Zhukovsky Air Force, amma mamayewar Axis na Tarayyar Soviet a 1941 ya katse karatunsa. Ya shiga cikin Rundunar 'yan bindiga ta 103 a watan Janairun 1945, yana ganin aiki a cikin matakan yakin, a Hungary, Austria da Czechoslovakia, kuma a
Balaton Tsaron Tsaro a watan Maris na wannan shekarar. A lokacin aikinsa na yaƙi an ba shi lambar yabo ta "Don ƙarfin hali", saboda rawar da ya taka a cikin Vienna Offensive. Rukunin nasa ya ci gaba da aiki har zuwa lokacin da sojojin Axis suka mika wuya a Czechoslovakia a ranar 12 ga Mayu, 1945.