From February 1919, he was a military commissar of the 10th Rifle Division in battles in Estonia. From August 1919, the head of the Livno-Yeletsk defense region for the campaign against the cavalry of Konstantin Mamontov during his of the southern of the Soviet troops. From October 1919, he was the commander of the 48th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Infantry Division of the 8th Army of the Red Army and took part in the defeat of the troops of General A.I. Denikin and in the Soviet-Polish war. From January 1921 he was the chief and military commissar of the 43rd United Courses of the command staff of the Red Army. He was a delegate of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party. He participated in the suppression of the Kronstadt Mutiny of 1921 as the commander of the 501st Infantry Regiment.