In April 1943, he was a senior aide to the chief of intelligence of the 18th Guards Rifle Corps of the 13th Army of the Central Front in the Battle of Kursk where he was involved in the defensive battles in the area west of Station Ponyri, the counterattack at Sevsk, Konotop, and Priluki.
Thereupon his youngest son, Hryhory Samoylovych, was incriminated in slandering the Tsar and executed in Sevsk.
The region received its name after the Severians, an East Slavic tribe which inhabited the territory in the late 1st millennium A.D. Their main settlements included the present-day cities of Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv (Chernigov), Putyvl (Putivl), Hlukhiv (Glukhov), Liubech, Kursk, Rylsk, Starodub, Trubchevsk, Sevsk, Bryansk, and Belgorod.
Sevsky Urban Administrative Okrug, an administrative division which the town of Sevsk and four rural localities in Sevsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia are incorporated as
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Sevskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Sevsky Urban Administrative Okrug in Sevsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia is incorporated as
Eight Moscow regiments were removed from the city and transferred to Belgorod, Sevsk, and Kiev.