Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Tsalikov ya yi aiki a matsayin karamin jami'i a farkon shekarun 1930 kuma ya rike mukaman ma'aikata bayan kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Soja ta Frunze. Babban jami'in ma'aikata a lokacin da Operation Barbarossa ya fara, ya zama kwamandan kwamandan a cikin makonni na farko na yaki kuma an yi masa ado don aikinsa. A sakamakon haka, an ba Tsalikov umurnin Rundunar 'Yan bindiga ta 377, wanda ya jagoranci ayyukan don sauƙaƙe Siege na Leningrad. A ƙarshen 1942 an nada shi kwamandan na 3rd Guards Rifle Division, yana jagorantar shi a cikin hare-haren Soviet a Stalingrad. Tsalikov an yi masa kwalliya saboda jagorancinsa na bangare a cikin na karshe, da
Donbas Strategic Offensive, da kuma Crimean Offensive. Ya hau zuwa umurnin 13th Guards Rifle Corps bayan ƙarshen Crimean Offensive, amma an kashe shi ta hanyar ma'adinai a lokacin Šiauliai Offensive a tsakiyar 1944.