He joined Budyonny's regiment, his brigade, his division, and finally his First Cavalry Army He rode to the aid of heroic Tsaritsyn, joined with Voroshilov's Tenth Army, and fought at Voronezh, Kastornaya, and at the Generalsky Bridge on the Donets.
Lau urte eman zituen gerran eta herrira itzuli zenean zuriak gogoak agintzen ziena egiten ari ziren bertan. Platovskaia herrixkara joan zedin xaxatu zuten Sashka, bertan zurien aurkako destakamendu bat biltzen ari baitziren. Semion Mikhailovitx Budionni zalditeriako sarjentu merezi onekoa zen destakamendu haren gudalburua;