Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan murmurewa, an mayar da Lyakhov zuwa Kudu maso Yammacin Yammacin kuma a ranar 4 ga Oktoba aka nada shi shugaban ma'aikata na 987th Rifle Regiment na 226th Rifle Division. Tare da rukunin a matsayin wani ɓangare na rundunar soja ta 21 ya yi yaƙi a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na tsaro a gabashin gabar Seversky Donets. Saboda ayyukansa a yakin Yastrebovo a ranar 29 ga Disamba, wanda aka ji masa rauni, sai aka ba Major Lyakhov lambar yabo ta Red Star a ranar 10 ga Afrilu 1942. An ji rauni a karo na biyu a ranar 13 ga Fabrairun 1942 kusa da Sazhnoye, an nada shi kwamandan rundunar a watan Afrilu, ya jagoranci shi a Yaƙin Kharkov na biyu a watan Mayu da Yuni. A ranar 22 ga Yuni, sashin ya yi tafiya zuwa yankin Korocha, ya koma rundunar sojojin 21, wani bangare na Kudu maso Yammacin Turai sannan kuma Stalingrad Front daga ranar 12 ga Yuli, yana fada a cikin
Yaƙin Voronezh da tsaron hanyoyin zuwa Stalingrad. A lokacin yakin Voronezh, Lyakhov ya ji rauni a karo na uku a ranar 13 ga Yuni kusa da Novo-aleksandrovskoy, Kharkov Oblast.