He led the division in the heavy defensive fighting around Voronezh in the fall, the Voronezh-Kastornensk operation in January and February 1943, which recaptured the city, and the Third Battle of Kharkov in February and March.
He led the division in the heavy defensive fighting around Voronezh in the fall, the Voronezh-Kastornensk operation in January, and the Third Battle of Kharkov in February and March. He led the division in the heavy defensive fighting around Voronezh in the fall, the Voronezh-Kastornensk operation in February 1943, and the Third Battle of Kharkov in February and March. February 1943 recaptured the city.