I consider the following to be my contribution to military theory and practice: 1. Creation of mine-explosive barriers and sabotage equipment in the 1925-1930s. For this work he received the title of Candidate of Technical Sciences. The developments found wide application in Spain and during the Great Patriotic War. Their mass production was established. In the TsShPD report regarding the assessment of the effectiveness of mines, “Starinov’s train mines” - PMS - took 1st place.2. Training of partisan personnel in 1930–1933 and 1941–1945.3. The most significant operations carried out under my leadership include the following: In Spain: destruction of the headquarters of the Italian air division; a train crash with Moroccans, a military train crashing in a tunnel, which interrupted important enemy communications for a long time; disabling communications between the enemy's Southern and Madrid fronts for a week. During the Great Patriotic War: in October 1941 - the Kharkov communications routes were turned into practically a trap for the enemy, which obviously greatly hampered his offensive; in February 1942 - ice campaigns through the Taganrog Bay, as a result of which the Mariupol-Rostov-on-Don highway was disabled and the German garrison on Kosaya Gora was destroyed; the creation of a sabotage service in Ukrainian partisan formations and in the Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement in 1943, as a result of which there were over 3,500 train crashes in Ukraine, while in 1942 there were only 202. In 1944 - training and creation of partisan formations of Ukrainian partisans for partisan warfare abroad - in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania. I have written manuals, including top secret ones, on the issues of conducting partisan warfare, which were used in training partisans.