 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Mushure mekunge Operation Barbarossa yatanga, 54th Tank Division yakafukidza muganhu weSoviet muTranscaucasus. Mukupera kwaJuly uye kutanga kwaAugust 28th Mechanized Corps yakashandiswa kuumba 47th Army. Colonel Sinenko akatungamirira boka racho mukupinda kweAnglo-Soviet muIran muna August. Muna Gumiguru akagadzwa kuva mutungamiri we55th Tank Brigade, iyo yakabatana neTranscaucasian Front. Kubvira muna January 1942 boka racho rakarwa muhondo dzinotyisa muHondo yeKerch Peninsula. Pakati paMay naSeptember Sinenko akashanda semutevedzeri wemukuru weAuto-Armored Directorate yekurwisa kushandiswa kwemauto ematangi eNorth Caucasian Front. Munguva iyi, akanga ari panguva imwe chete mumiririri weNorth Caucasian Front muStalingrad nemurayiro weRed Army General Staff. 