Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Petrov ya zama kwamandan rundunar ta 3 na rundunar sojan sama ta 68 a cikin Yakin hunturu
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya yi da'awar nasara da yawa a lokacin yakin. A ranar 17 ga Fabrairu, 1940, a kan Lake Muola-Jarvi, an harbe matukin jirgi N. Kosichkin kuma ya fadi a kan kankara. Petrov ya sauka kuma ya ɗaure Kosichkin zuwa kankara na I-15bis a ƙarƙashin harin Finnish. Lokacin da Petrov ya sauka a sansaninsa, akwai ramuka 100 a jikin jirginsa. A ranar 7 ga Afrilu, 1940, an ba Petrov taken Jarumin Tarayyar Soviet da kuma Order of Lenin, ya zama mutum na farko da aka haifa a Karelia don karɓar bambanci.