The cavalrymen encountered no resistance in securing the border around the Aramas and, continuing to move southward, easily took thousands of Iranian war prisoners in a campaign aimed at toppling the pro-German government of Rezā Shāh in favor of a pro-Allied one.

Recommended by General Konstantin Rokossovsky for the supreme honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the success at the Dnieper, Colonel Kusimov was awarded the title along with the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union (medal no.

He graduated from the Voroshilov Military Academy of the USSR Army General Staff in 1951, subsequently rising to the rank of major-general.

Major-general Kusimov served in the Soviet Army until 1969 and was concurrently elected to various party and government posts.

A museum honoring the Bashkir war hero and general exists in his native Bashkortostan.