Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Mai i te Haratua 1919, I mahi a Iovlev hei tangata o te ope Whero me te rangatira o te roopu i te 104th Rifle Regiment o te 12th Rifle Division. I whawhai ia i te Runga ki te Tonga me te waahanga ki nga Mana Hākinakina o Ruhia ki te Tonga i te awa o Don, katahi ka uru ki nga Mahi Voronezh<unk>Kastornoye me Donbass. I te hotoke o te 1919-1920 i mate ia ki te typhoid ka tukuna ki te hohipera. I tukuna ia ki te ako i te kura hoia mo te tau kotahi o te Raki o te Rawhiti i Samara i te puna o te tau 1920, i mahi ia i te Raki o Turkestan i te
e whawhai ana mō Bukhara me tētahi rōpū rangatahi i tangohia mai i te kura. Whai muri i tana tohu i te kura, ka noho a Iovlev hei rangatira mo te tari whakahaere me te whakakao i te Kaunihera o te Kaunihera o te Kaunihera o te Kaunihera o Khorezm Soviet Republic i te Mei 1921. I uru ia ki te aukati i te nekehanga Basmachi, i mahi ia hei kaiawhina mo te waahanga whakahaere o nga kaimahi o te Ropu Whakahaere o Samarkand mai i te Akuhata 1922.