Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I mahi a Tsalikov hei rangatira rangatahi i nga tau moata o te 1930, a, i mau i nga tuunga kaimahi i muri i tana paahitanga mai i te Whare Wananga o Frunze. Ko ia te rangatira o te roopu i te wa i tiimata ai te Operation Barbarossa, ka riro ia hei rangatira rangatira i nga wiki tuatahi o te pakanga ka whakawhiwhia ki a ia mo tana mahi. I te mutunga, i whakawhiwhia a Tsalikov ki te rangatira o te 377th Rifle Division, i arahina e ia ki nga mahi ki te whakaora i te Siege o Leningrad. I te mutunga o te tau 1942 i tohua ia hei rangatira mo te 3rd Guards Rifle Division, i arahi ia i te whakaeke a te Soviet i Stalingrad. I whakawhiwhia a Tsalikov ki tana kaiārahi i te wehenga i te whakamutunga, te
Ko Donbas Strategic Offensive, me te Crimean Offensive. I eke ia ki te whakahau i te 13th Guards Rifle Corps i muri i te mutunga o te Crimean Offensive, engari i patua e te maina i te wa o te Šiauliai Offensive i te waenganui o te 1944.