sentences:  Supported by the Interior ministry, he organized the Yastrebok (Young Hawk) theatre which for almost a year remained the only functioning one in the Soviet capital and performed regularly for the frontline Red Army fighters.The sense of urgency and being in demand again gave him the energy to fight back the disease.He wrote more than 150 war-themes songs; at least three of them were recorded and released in 1945 by Klavdiya Shulzhenko.