Career
The next year he took 2nd in a Soviet master candidates tournament. In June 1941, he was in 4th place in Rostov-on-Don (the 13th Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics-ch semi-final), when the German attack on the Soviet Union interrupted the event. He entered the Soviet Army at the end of 1940, and disappeared on 16 May 1942 in the battle of Malaya Zemlya (lit "Minor Land"), a part of Novorossiysk on Russia"s Black Sea coast against German troops.