in June 1937 and arrested by the NKVD on 31 July. He was released in October 1938 due to lack of evidence, and in February 1939 reinstated in the Red Army, returning to his previous position as a company commander in the 57th Regiment. From June of that year he again served as a battalion chief of staff. Golovachev participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland in September and was appointed a battalion commander of the 744th Rifle Regiment of the 149th Rifle Division in November. In January 1940 he became commander of a battalion of the 25th Rifle Regiment of the 44th Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District, fighting in the Winter War. In March 1941, Golovachev was appointed commander of the 4th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion of the 44th, which was converted into a mountain rifle division, and in May he transferred to serve as chief of staff of its 146th Mountain Rifle Regiment. World War II After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, Golavachev fought with his unit in the border battles and in fighting south of Stanislav he was seriously wounded on 27 June. In the second half of July, his unit was encircled in the Uman pocket and destroyed. Golovachev escaped the pocket and made his way northeast, and by 6 November, with a group of 74 personnel, he reached the Bryansk area, where he joined a partisan detachment operating in Lyubokhny District, near his birthplace. He became chief of staff of the detachment, which was contacted by a representative from the 10th Army in January 1942, who ordered the military personnel of the detachment to cross the front line and rejoin the army. After being treated at a hospital, Golovachev became commander of the 1326th Rifle Regiment of the 415th Rifle Division of the Western Front in February 1942, fighting in battles west of Medyn. Appointed commander of the 52nd Motor Rifle Brigade in September, Golovachev led the brigade on the Southwestern Front after it finished forming. The brigade joined the 15th Tank Corps on 15 December and participated in the offensive towards Olkhovatka. During the Third Battle of Kharkov in late February, the brigade was surrounded and escaped encirclement in small groups. Golovachev was one of the last to leave with the battle flag of the brigade, after which the brigade was rebuilt. For his actions, he was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 2nd