Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kubva pakutanga kweOperation Barbarossa musi wa22 Chikumi 1941, Arkhipov akarwa muhondo yeBrody
uye Hondo Yokutanga yeKiev. Kubva muna Nyamavhuvhu akarayira 10th Tank Regiment ye10th Tank Brigade, uye muna Zvita akava mutevedzeri wemutungamiriri webrigade. Akagadzwa mutungamiri we109th Tank Brigade, yakaumbwa muVoronezh, muna Kubvumbi 1942, Arkhipov akaitungamira sechikamu che16th Tank Corps yeBryansk Front muhondo dzekudzivirira kumadokero kweLivny munaJune naJuly, panguva iyo yaive yakakomberedzwa kwemazuva matatu. Pakati paAugust, 109th yakaendeswa kuStalingrad Front, ichitora chikamu mukurwisa mauto eGerman akapinda muVolga kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweStalingrad mudunhu reKotluban ne1st Guards Army, ndokuzoita muhondo dzekudzivirira munzvimbo iyi. Nokutanga kweOperation Uranus, brigade yakarwisana munharaunda yeVertyachy. Muna January 1943, 109th yakatumirwa kuCentral Front, ichirwisana mukurwisa Fatezh neKrasny Sevsk.