Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya shiga Red Army a watan Maris na 1920, kuma jim kaɗan bayan haka ya shiga cikin murkushe Tashin Tambov. Ya ci gaba da ci gaba ta hanyar matsayi a cikin shekarun da suka gabata, kuma a watan Fabrairun 1939 an ba shi umurnin rundunar bindigogi ta 186 na Yankin Soja na Ural. A farkon mamayewar Nazi na Tarayyar Soviet, an haɗa rukunin Biryukov zuwa rundunar soja ta 22 kuma aka aika zuwa Yammacin Yamma. Biryukov ya ji rauni a yakin Smolensk. Bayan murmurewarsa, an ba shi umarnin rukunin 'yan bindiga na 214, wanda ya shiga cikin Yaƙin Stalingrad. A watan Yunin 1943, an ba Biryukov umarnin Rundunar Sojoji ta 20 ta Sojoji, wani bangare na Rundunar Sojoji ta 4, matsayin da ya rike har zuwa karshen yakin. A shekara ta 1945, Biryukov ya yi yaƙi da bambancin da aka yi wa Jamus a Lake Balaton
, wanda aka ba Biryukov taken Jarumin Tarayyar Soviet a watan Afrilu 1945.