Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Site na mmalite nke Operation Barbarossa na 22 June 1941, Arkhipov lụrụ ọgụ na
Agha Brody na Agha Mbụ nke Kiev. Site n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ, o nyere iwu na 10th Tank Regiment nke 10th Tank Brigade, na Disemba ọ ghọrọ osote onye isi ndị agha. Onye a họpụtara onye isi nke 109th Tank Brigade, guzobere na Voronezh, n'April 1942, Arkhipov duziri ya dị ka akụkụ nke 16th Tank Corps nke Bryansk Front na ọgụ ọgụ ọdịda anyanwụ nke Livny n'oge June na July, n'oge nke a gbara ya gburugburu ruo ụbọchị atọ. N'etiti ọnwa Ọgọstụ, e zigara ndị agha nke 109 na Stalingrad Front, na-esonye na mwakpo ndị agha German ndị mebiri na Volga n'ebe ugwu ọdịda anyanwụ Stalingrad na mpaghara Kotluban na ndị agha 1st Guards, mgbe ahụ na ọgụ ọgụ na mpaghara ahụ. Site na mmalite nke Operation Uranus, ndị agha ahụ lụrụ ọgụ na mpaghara Vertyachy. Na Jenụwarị 1943, e zigara 109th na Central Front, na-alụ ọgụ na mwakpo Fatezh na Krasny Sevsk.