Rodin was awarded the title for reportedly making 110 attack sorties in World War II between November 1943 and April 1945.

[1] Rodin was born on 23 April 1923 in Orlovka village in Oryol Governorate to a peasant family.

In March, Rodin led ten Il-2s in a ground attack supporting troops of the 38th Army.

In the attack, the Il-2s reportedly destroyed two German artillery batteries and several anti-aircraft guns, twelve vehicles and a number of railway cars.

Rodin had reportedly made 110 attack sorties, destroying five enemy aircraft on the ground and shooting down one in the air.

[10] On 29 June 1945, Rodin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his actions.

He commanded a fighter aviation regiment in the Belorussian Military District from November 1955 to April 1959.

He became the chief of the political department at the Kharkov Higher Military Aviation Pilot School.

[11] Rodin died on 31 October 2002 and was buried at the Nikolskoe Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.