Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Grabsky i te 3 o Paenga-whawha 1923 i Kyiv ki tetahi whanau mahi-a-iwi Hurai. I te 25 o Hune 1941, whai muri i te timatanga o Operation Barbarossa, i tono ia mo te ope Whero, a i mahi tuatahi ia i roto i nga hoia. Whai muri i tana whara i te Pakanga o Stalingrad, i tukuna ia ki te whakauru ki tetahi roopu tank. I a ia e rangatira ana i te 52nd Tank Guards Brigade, i kitea e ia i te ngahuru o te tau 1943, i te wa o te
Te Pakanga o Kiev. I te mutunga o Hepetema 1943, i whakatuhia e nga hoia Soviet tetahi piriti i Lyutizh, i te taha matau o te Dnieper. I mua noa i te ata o te 4 o Noema 1943, ka eke nga taaka o te 52nd Tank Guards Brigade ki te piriti, ma te waka waka. I roto i te whakaeke i nga tuunga o te hoariri, ko Grabsky i roto i te rangatira, i whakangaro i tetahi tank Tiger, na reira, i awhina i te 52nd Tank Guards Brigade ki te whiti i te Dnieper.