[1] As a boy, Zamansky grew up without a father, and in 1941, when the Germans entered Kremenchuk, he was left without a mother.
Deceiving the commission and adding to his age, he joined the Russian Army and volunteered to go to the front.
In June 1944 he served as a radio operator in 1223th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 3rd Belarusian Front during a breakthrough near Orsha.
After the war, as part of a military unit p / n 74256 in the Northern Group of Forces (Poland) he continued to serve in the Soviet Army.
[1] In 1950, for participating in the beating of a platoon commander he was sentenced by the Military Tribunal to nine years imprisonment under article 193-B of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.