Kammala wannan jumlar: A shekara ta 1936, ya sauke karatu daga makarantar soja na matukan jirgi kuma ya zama matukin jirgi a cikin Red Air Force. Daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin matukin jirgi a cikin Sojojin Sama na Yankin Sojojin Belarus. Daga Maris 1938 zuwa Agusta 1938, Bobrov ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Basasa na Spain a matsayin mai ba da agaji na ƙasashen waje ga Gwamnatin Jamhuriyar. Jirgin Polikarpov I-16 tare da Sojojin Sama na Jamhuriyar Republican, an yaba shi da nasara guda 13 da 4 da aka raba a kan Aviación Nacional, yayin da yake tashi da manufa 126, wanda ya hada da dogfights 47. Bayan dawowarsa zuwa USSR, ya tashi a cikin manufa a lokacin
Yaƙin hunturu. Daga baya ya yi aiki a cikin 4th da 10th Fighter Aviation Regiments. A 1941 ya kammala karatunsa daga Lipetsk mafi girma jirgin sama ci gaba da horo darussa ga rundunar kwamandoji. A wannan shekarar, ya shiga Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Tarayyar Soviet.