After graduation from high school, he worked as an assistant foreman at the Tiflis Mechanical Artillery Plant.

From May 1938 to March 1939, he flew 12 missions in a Tupolev SB bomber and was credited in the destruction of 70 ships and 30 enemy aircraft on the ground.

From November 1939 to January 1940, he studied at the courses of the highest command personnel at the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army.

[3] From July 1940, he served as commander of the 4th Aviation Division, during which he participated in the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States.

In August 1940, he served as deputy commander of Air Force of the Kiev Special Military District.

Following the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, Slyusarev became deputy commander of the Air Force of the Southwestern Front, which was created on the basis of the Kiev Special Military District.

[5] At the request of the commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Force, at the end of 1952, he was again sent to China, where he was appointed deputy commander of the 64th Fighter Aviation Corps.

Parts of the fighter corps were stationed at airfields in Northeast China and fought actively against the U.S. Air Force, during the Korean War.

Following the cessation of hostilities, the corps returned to the USSR, where it became part of the 22nd Air Army in Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR.

His daughter Natalia is a well known Russian writer and son Anatoly is a professor at the Volga State University of Water Transport in Nizhny Novgorod.