Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: E guzobere Ngalaba 35th Anti-Aircraft Artillery nke Reserve nke High Command (RGK) n'etiti Machị na Septemba 1943 na Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training Camp na Moscow, akụkụ nke Moscow Military District. Ọchịagha Nikolai Salmin weghaara iwu nke nkewa na July 15. Mgbe emechara nhazi ya, e zigara ndị agha ahụ n'ihu n'agbata Septemba 4 na 5 n'ime anọ anọ, na-esonye na ndị agha 37 nke Steppe Front (aha ya bụ 2nd Ukrainian Front na Ọktọba 20). Ngalaba ahụ sonyere na iweghachite Left-bank Ukraine n'akụkụ ọwụwa anyanwụ Kremenchug, Agha nke Dnieper, na mwakpo megide Krivoy Rog na ngwụcha 1943. na Jenụwarị, e zigara Ngalaba ahụ na ndị agha 37th na 3rd Ukrainian Front ma lụọ ọgụ na
Nikopol<unk>Krivoy Rog agha, Bereznegovatoye<unk>Snigirevka agha, na Odessa agha. A na-enyocha Salmin dị ka onye "na-eme ihe n'echeghị echiche, na-efukarị njikwa nke ndị otu nkewa na njem na na ọgụ ọgụ" n'oge ndị agha na-eme ihe na mpaghara Lyubotyn na ịgafe Dnieper na Southern Bug. N'ihi nke a, a napụrụ Salmin iwu na 26 Machị 1944 ma dochie ya onye osote onye isi ndị agha maka nchekwa ikuku Colonel Mikhail Slyusarev. 35th lụrụ ọgụ na mwakpo nke abụọ Jassy<unk>Kishinev na mwakpo nke Bulgaria. Ngalaba ahụ nọgidere na 37th Army na-arụ ọrụ na Bulgaria maka oge fọdụrụ agha ahụ.