For his bravery, he was awarded the orders of the Patriotic War (II degree, 1945) and Red Star (1944), as well as the medals for Courage (1943), Battle Merit (1944) and the Victory over Germany (1946).

After that, he worked on his PhD titled Focusing and dispersive properties of particular magnetic fields (Russian: Исследование фокусирующих и диспергирующих свойств некоторых вариантов магнитных полей), which he defended in May 1956 under Academician Lev Artsimovich.

[1] In 1957, Irodov published his first book, a collection of problems in atomic physics, which was republished in 1959 and later translated into Polish, Romanian and English.

[1] Irodov spent 27 years of his life writing a series of handbooks that fully covered a university course on general physics.

In his handbooks, Irodov aimed for brevity, crafting concise and clear definitions while removing unessential details and heavy calculus, and he focused on relating theory to practical examples and problems.