Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A ranar 28 ga Agusta, 1941, fiye da watanni biyu bayan Operation Barbarossa, mamayewar Jamus ta Tarayyar Soviet ta fara, an umurci Pukhov ya maye gurbin kwamandan rundunar bindigogi ta 304 na rundunar soja ta 38; wannan shi ne umarninsa na farko tun lokacin da bindigar bindigar ta kasance kimanin shekaru 15 da suka gabata. A farkon watan Satumba an canza shi zuwa yankin Kozelshchyna, inda har zuwa 17 ga Satumba ya sha wahala sosai a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe masu ƙarfi, ya koma gabas zuwa yankin Sanzhery, Reshetylivka, da Poltava. Na 304 ya yi yaƙi a cikin Donbass Defensive Operation a watan Oktoba, sannan aka janye shi zuwa ajiyar a yankin Snezhny Kut. Pukhov ya riƙe wannan matsayi har zuwa 20 ga Janairu, 1942, lokacin da aka ba shi umurnin rundunar soja ta 13, wanda ya riƙe har zuwa tsakiyar 1946. Har zuwa tsakiyar 1942 sojojin, wani ɓangare na Bryansk Front, sun riƙe matsayi na tsaro a kan layin Skorodnoye da Kolpny. Sojojin sun yi yaƙi a cikin
Yaƙin Voronezh a tsakiyar 1942 da Voronezh-Kastornensk aikin kai hari a farkon 1943. A ranar 14 ga Fabrairu, bayan na biyun, an daukaka Pukhov zuwa Laftanar Janar. A lokacin yakin Kursk a watan Yuli, sojojin, suna riƙe da matsayi a gefen arewacin Kursk bulge, sun kori kwanaki shida na hare-haren Jamus a cikin mummunan fadace-fadace, suna hana nasarar Jamus da kuma iyakance ci gaban Jamus zuwa kilomita 10 zuwa 12. Lokacin da sojojin Soviet suka koma kai hari bayan sun ci sojojin Jamus da gaske, Sojoji na 13 sun yi yaƙi a Operation Kutuzov.