Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te 35th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division o te Reserve o te High Command (RGK) i hangaia i waenga i te Maehe me te Mahuru 1943 i te Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training Camp i Moscow, he waahanga o te Rohe hoia o Moscow. I riro a Colonel Nikolai Salmin i te rangatira o te wehenga i te 15 o Hurae. I muri i te whakaoti i tana hanganga, i tukuna te wehenga ki te mua i waenga i te 4 me te 5 o Hepetema i roto i nga roopu e wha, ka uru atu ki te 37th Army o te Steppe Front (i whakaingoatia hei 2nd Ukrainian Front i te 20 o Oketopa). I uru te wehenga ki te whakaoranga o te taha maui o Ukraine ki te rawhiti o Kremenchug, te Pakanga o te Dnieper, me te whakaeke ki Krivoy Rog i te mutunga o te tau 1943. i te marama o Hanuere, i tukuna te wehenga me te ope taua 37 ki te 3rd Ukrainian Front ka whawhai i te pakanga o te rohe o Ukraine.
Ko te whakaeke o Nikopol<unk>Krivoy Rog, te Bereznegovatoye<unk>Snigirevka whakaeke, me te whakaeke o Odessa. I aromatawaihia a Salmin mo te "mahi ngoikore, he maha nga wa ka ngaro te mana o nga waahanga wehenga i te haerenga me nga mahi whawhai" i nga mahi a te ope i te rohe o Lyubotyn me te whiti o Dnieper me te Tonga Bug. I te mutunga, i tukuna a Salmin mai i te whakahau i te 26 o Poutu-te-rangi 1944 ka whakakapihia e te kaihauturu o te ope taua mo te paruru rererangi a Colonel Mikhail Slyusarev. I whawhai te 35th i te whakaeke Tuarua o Jassy<unk>Kishinev me te noho o Bulgaria. I noho tonu te wehenga ki te 37th Army e noho ana i Bulgaria mo te toenga o te pakanga.