He is one of the Soviet war heroes to conduct a "fire taran" – a suicide attack by an aircraft on a ground target.

After his Ilyushin Il-2 was hit by antiaircraft fire, Taranchiev crashed his plane into a concentration of German tanks in Estonia in March 1944.

A month later, he had made 11 combat sorties, destroying or damaging 13 vehicles, 12 freight carriages, and a motorcycle.

For an air attack on German ground troops west of Narva on 18 February, the regiment received thanks from the 30th Guards Rifle Corps.

[1][2] In 2015, Kyrgyz Pochtasy issued a stamp depicting Taranchiev and his Il-2 for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.