Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei palakalafa - O le Kolone Kusimov na faʻaliliuina e aʻoaʻo i le Frunze Military Academy e le Marshal Semyon Budyonny i le 1944 ma faʻauʻu mai le Frunze Military Academy i le 1947, auai i le Moscow Victory Parade
i le aso 24 o Iuni, 1945. Na faauu o ia mai le Voroshilov Military Academy o le USSR Army General Staff i le 1951, ma mulimuli ane tulaʻi i le tulaga o le major-general.