He reached the rank of Senior Sergeant by September 1943 and led a machine gun crew in the Battle of the Dnieper.

He received secondary education and graduated from a training course for Russian language teachers in Baku.

[1][2] On the night of 26 September, he crossed the river with a small detachment at the village of Voyskovoye in Solone Raion.

In the morning German troops counterattacks and during one attack Safarov ran out of ammunition for his machine gun.

The reinforcements encircled the German troops, who committed tanks in an effort to break out.

[3] On 19 March 1944 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin.