For his success in leading the crossing he was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 20 December 1943. Upon returning to the front he fought in the Lvov–Sandomierz, Vistula–Oder, and Silesian offensives, and in 1944 he was appointed deputy commander of the 178th Guards Rifle Regiment. In May that year his family was deported to Central Asia because they were Crimean Tatars after the Red Army took control of Crimea; his status as a war hero did not save his mother and sisters from being considered "traitors" due to their ethnicity, and he eventually learned of their exile to the Uzbek SSR via a letter. On 18 March 1945 he was killed in action during the Upper Silesian Offensive and was buried on the Hill of Glory in Lviv. The farewell address at his funeral was made by Marshall Konstantin Rokossovsky. His wife Mariya had not received a letter from him since March and was not notified of his death until 1948 when she received a letter from the chairman of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik that he was killed in action. A street was named in his honor in Simferopol and an obelisk in his honor was built in Crimea in 2014.