Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: E guzobere Ngalaba 35th Anti-Aircraft Artillery nke Reserve nke High Command (RGK) n'etiti Machị na Septemba 1943 na Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training Camp na Moscow, akụkụ nke Moscow Military District. Ọchịagha Nikolai Salmin weghaara iwu nke nkewa na July 15. Mgbe emechara nhazi ya, e zigara ndị agha ahụ n'ihu n'agbata Septemba 4 na 5 n'ime anọ anọ, na-esonye na ndị agha 37 nke Steppe Front (aha ya bụ 2nd Ukrainian Front na Ọktọba 20). Ngalaba ahụ sonyere na iweghachite Left-bank Ukraine n'ebe ọwụwa anyanwụ Kremenchug, Agha nke Dnieper, na mwakpo megide Krivoy Rog na ngwụcha 1943. na Jenụwarị, e zigara Ngalaba na ndị agha 37th na 3rd Ukrainian Front ma lụọ ọgụ na mwakpo Nikopol<unk>Krivoy Rog, mwakpo Bereznegovatoye<unk>Snigirevka, na mwakpo Odessa. A na-enyocha Salmin dị ka onye "na-eme ihe n'echeghị echiche, na-efukarị njikwa nke ndị otu nkewa na njem na na ọgụ ọgụ" n'oge ndị agha na-eme ihe na mpaghara Lyubotyn na ịgafe Dnieper na Southern Bug. N'ihi nke a, a napụrụ Salmin iwu na 26 Machị 1944 ma dochie ya onye osote onye isi ndị agha maka nchekwa ikuku Colonel Mikhail Slyusarev. Ndị agha nke iri atọ na ise lụrụ ọgụ na
Nke abụọ Jassy<unk>Kishinev na mwakpo nke Bulgaria. Ngalaba ahụ nọgidere na 37th Army na-arụ ọrụ na Bulgaria maka oge fọdụrụ agha ahụ.