Yevsey volunteered at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941 but was captured the same year and became a prisoner of war for almost 4 years till he was freed in 1945. He continued to attend Osmerkin’s studio and graduated the Institute and joined the Union of Soviet Artists in 1947. Moiseyenko travelled all over Russia and visited Georgia and Belorussia. He was elected a member of the governing body of the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1957 and became the head of the easel painting studio at the Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad in 1958.

Moiseyenko continued to work prolifically and his success was growing in the 1960s. His was elected an associate member of the Academy of Art in 1962 and became a Professor in 1963. His teaching methods and art studio gained enormous popularity among the students. Yevsey was elected an Academician, was appointed a secretary of the Union of Artists in 1973 and received the Lenin Prize for his heroic war paintings in 1974.

In the 1970s Moiseyenko travelled in Europe and visited Greece, France, Holland and Spain several times creating his famous series of Spanish landscapes and paintings. He has his major retrospective at the State Russian Museum in Leningrad and the Central House of Artists in Moscow in 1982. His works are present in all major art museums in Russia and some exclusive private collections.

Yevsey Moiseyenko is regarded as an outstanding master of narrative painting and one of the largest figures of Russian and Soviet art in the second half of the 20^th century.