Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Kirpichenko i te 25 o Mahuru 1922 i Kursk, Kursk Oblast, he waahanga o te Russian SFSR, i te USSR. I haere ia ki te Kura Motuhake o te Air Force No. 4, i whakawhiwhia ki te whakangungu rererangi tuatahi i te taha o te maatauranga tuarua. I haere ia ki te Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, engari ko te whakaekenga o te Axis o te Soviet Union i te 1941 i aukati i ana akoranga. I uru ia ki te 103rd Guards Rifle Division i te Hanuere 1945, i kite ia i nga mahi i nga waahanga whakamutunga o te pakanga, i Hungary, Austria me Czechoslovakia, me te
Ko te Mahi Parenga Balaton i te Maehe o taua tau. I a ia e mahi ana i te pakanga, i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te Tohu "Mo te Toa", mo tana mahi i te Whanau o Vienna. I noho tonu tana roopu ki te mahi tae noa ki te tukunga o nga ope Axis i Czechoslovakia i te 12 o Mei 1945.