Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daga farkon Operation Barbarossa a ranar 22 ga Yuni, 1941, Arkhipov ya yi yaƙi a yakin Brody
da kuma yakin farko na Kiev. Daga watan Agusta ya umurci Rundunar Tank na 10 na Brigade na Tank na 10, kuma a watan Disamba ya zama mataimakin kwamandan brigade. An nada shi kwamandan Brigade na 109 na Tank, wanda aka kafa a Voronezh, a watan Afrilu na 1942, Arkhipov ya jagoranci shi a matsayin wani ɓangare na 16th Tank Corps na Bryansk Front a cikin fadace-fadace na yammacin Livny a watan Yuni da Yuli, lokacin da aka kewaye shi har kwana uku. A tsakiyar watan Agusta, an sake komawa 109th zuwa Stalingrad Front, suna shiga cikin hare-haren da aka kai wa sojojin Jamus wadanda suka shiga Volga a arewa maso yammacin Stalingrad a yankin Kotluban tare da Sojojin Sojoji na 1, sannan a cikin fadace-fadace a cikin sashin. Tare da farkon Operation Uranus, brigade ya yi yaƙi a cikin Vertyachy. A watan Janairun 1943, an aika da 109th zuwa Tsakiyar Tsakiya, suna fada a hare-haren Fatezh da Krasny Sevsk.