Career
16 September 1943, while the Soviet army was breaking through the German defenses in the Kuban’, ordered his platoon to pin down an enemy pillbox while he crawled to its gun port to knock it out with hand grenades. Altough wounded, managed to reach the gun port an block it with his body, thus ensuring the success of the attack. 16 May 1944 posthumously proclaimed Hero of the Soviet Union.
Permanently registered on the roll of the unit’s 1st Company in which he was serving at the time of his heroic acting His picture appeared on a postage stamp issued in 1963.