Зайцев, Александр
In August 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army and served in World War II, participating in the defense of Leningrad. After being wounded and demobilized in late 1943, he returned to the institute, where he studied with Mikhail Bernshtein, Semion Abugov, Alexander Zaytsev, Genrikh Pavlovsky, and Gleb Savinov.