Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei palakalafa - Anashkin sa tautua o se "starshina" i le 6th Tsaritsyn Regiment o le Volga Military District mai ia Me 1922, ona i ai lea i le tulaga lava e tasi ma le 96th ma le 99th Rifle Regiments. Mai ia Iuni 1924 na ia faatonuina ai se vaega i le 99th Regiment, ae leʻi auina atu e suesue i le Smolensk Infantry School ia Setema. Ina ua mavae le mulimuli na faataapeina i Setema 1926 Anashkin siitia atu i le Ryazan Aoga Infantry. Ina ua faauu o ia i le masina o Oketopa 1927, na tofia ai o ia e avea ma taʻitaʻi au i le 66th Rifle Regiment o le 22nd Rifle Division. Na faauma e Anashkin le Moscow Military-Political Course i le va o Oketopa 1928 ma Iulai 1929, na tofia ai o ia e avea ma taʻitaʻi ma "politruk" o se kamupani o le 78th Rifle Regiment o le 26th Rifle Division o le Special Far Eastern Army, lea na ia tau ai i le feteenaiga a Saina-Soviet
mulimuli ane ai i lenā tausaga.