In 1932, he graduated from a professional technical school of factory apprenticeship, after which he worked as a foreman of locksmiths at the Lugansk steam locomotive repair plant.

From March 1938 to August 1938, Bobrov fought in the Spanish Civil War as a foreign volunteer for the Republican Government.

[2] Following the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Bobrov scored his first aerial victory of the war, when he shot down a Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 bomber, while flying a Yak-1.

As a result, he served as pilot technique inspector of the 190th Fighter Aviation Division from March 1944 to April 1944.

[6] By 24 July 1944, Bobrov flew 424 sorties, during which he conducted 112 dogfights, and was credited with 23 solo and 11 shared aerial victories.

[7] On 11 August 1944, Bobrov was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but chief marshal of aviation Alexander Novikov and colonel general Konstantin Vershinin refused to present him the award.

[4] By the decree of the President of the USSR of 20 March 1991, for “courage and military valor displayed during the Great Patriotic War,” Bobrov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, along with the Order of Lenin.