In February 1945, he was appointed commander of the 7th Guards Fighter Aviation Division and commanded it until the end of the war. The division provided air cover for crossings across the Neisse River in preparation for the Berlin offensive. It participated in Berlin and Prague offensives. Lobov scored his 10th and last aerial victory of the war, when he shot down a Heinkel He-111 bomber over the Czechoslovak city of Mělník. It is also considered as the last of the enemy aircraft destroyed by Soviet pilots in the Great Patriotic War.