 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna Chikunguru Seryugin akagadzwa kuve mukuru we160th Rifle Division, iyo sechikamu che6th Army yeVoronezh Front yakazviratidza muhondo yeVoronezh. Zvadaro, 160th yakarwa sechikamu cheVoronezh, uye kubva muna Zvita maSouthwestern Fronts, iine basa rinoshanda muOperation Little Saturn. Akakuvadzwa musi wa18 Kukadzi 1943 achibva kunotsvaga munzvimbo yeHight 179.6 uye akaendeswa kuchipatara kunorapwa, achitsiviwa nemutevedzeri wemutungamiriri wedhipatimendi Colonel Aleksei Baksov. Seryugin akatangazve kutungamira divi musi wa 9 Kubvumbi, uye 160th yakashandurwa kuita 89th Guards Rifle Division musi wa 19 Kubvumbi. Akaitungamirira mukurwisa kweDonbas, Hondo yeDnieper, Kurwisa kweNikopolKrivoi Rog, Kurwisa kweBereznegovatoyeSnigirevka, uye Kurwisa kweOdessa. Seryugin akasimudzirwa kuva mukuru mukuru musi wa 1 Gunyana 1943. Pakati pa 2 Chikumi na 5 Chikunguru 1944 Seryugin akambotungamira 49th Rifle Corps mune yechipiri echelon ye53rd Mauto e2nd Ukrainian Front panguva yekurapwa kwemukuru wemauto Major General Gury Terentyev. Mushure mekudzoka kwekupedzisira, Seryugin akatangazve kutungamira kwe89th Guards, iyo yakarwa muChipiri JassyKishinev kurwisa sechikamu che5th Shock Army. Iye akaongororwa se ane hunyanzvi akatungamira zvikamu zvechikamu mukubudirira kweAxis dziviriro muchikamu cheKishinev uye kudzosera matangi ekupikisa. Seryugin akarondedzerwa seanoita simba uye anokwanisa pasinei nokuvapo kwematangi eAxis kumashure kwechikamu. 