He rose to command a squadron of the 40th Cavalry Regiment of the division in September 1920 and a month later became commander of the barrier detachment of the division. With the division, he fought in battles on the Astrakhan steppe and at Tsaritsyn, in the invasions of Azerbaijan and Georgia, the elimination of Ulagay's Landing, and the fighting against the Army of Wrangel at Yuzovka, Melitopol, and Dzhankoy. From January 1921 he returned to squadron command in fighting against the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine in south Ukraine and the Ukrainian People's Army troops of Yuriy Tyutyunnyk near Kiev.