Nyora kuenderera kweiyi ndima - Muna 1941 Kharchenko akave lieutenant uye mutungamiri weboka mu22 Detached Engineering uye anti-gasi battalion yeNzvimbo Anti-Aircraft Defense mauto. Muna 1942 akadzokera kuchikwata kwaakanga ashumira munzvimbo dzisina basa - ku6th Engineering uye anti-gas regiment yeNKVD anti-aircraft defense mauto. Akabatsira kudzikisira mabhomba, zvimbambaira uye mabhomba echiGerman anodarika zviuru makumi maviri nezvitanhatu panguva yeHondo yeStalingrad neHondo yeKiev (1943)
. Musi waNovember 2, 1944, akapiwa zita rokuti Hero of the Soviet Union uye Order of Lenin nokuda kwezviito zvake mukubvisa zvombo zvisina kuputika nemigodhi.