Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'August 28, 1941, ihe karịrị ọnwa abụọ mgbe Operation Barbarossa, mbuso agha Germany nke Soviet Union malitere, e nyere Pukhov iwu ka ọ nọchie onye isi nke ndị agha 38 nke ndị agha 304th Rifle Division; nke a bụ iwu mbụ ya ebe ọ bụ na ndị agha egbe ahụ dị ihe dị ka afọ 15 tupu mgbe ahụ. Na mbido Septemba, a kpọfere ya na mpaghara Kozelshchyna, ebe ruo Septemba 17 ọ tara ahụhụ dị ukwuu na ọgụ ọgụ siri ike, na-alaghachi n'ebe ọwụwa anyanwụ na mpaghara Sanzhery, Reshetylivka, na Poltava. Mgbe ahụ 304th lụrụ ọgụ na Donbass Defensive Operation n'oge Ọktọba, mgbe ahụ ewepụrụ ya na nchekwa na mpaghara Snezhny Kut. Pukhov nọ n'ọkwa a rue Jenụwarị 20, 1942, mgbe e nyere ya iwu nke ndị agha nke 13, nke o jidere ruo etiti 1946. Ruo etiti 1942, ndị agha, akụkụ nke Bryansk Front, jidere ọnọdụ nchebe na akara Skorodnoye na Kolpny. Ndị agha lụrụ agha na
Agha nke Voronezh n'etiti 1942 na ọrụ mwakpo Voronezh-Kastornensk na mbido 1943. N'abalị iri na anọ nke ọnwa Febụwarị, mgbe nke ikpeazụ a gasịrị, e buliri Pukhov n'ọkwa Lieutenant General. N'oge Agha nke Kursk na July, ndị agha, na-ejide ọnọdụ n'akụkụ ugwu nke Kursk bulge, gbochiri ụbọchị isii nke mwakpo ndị German na ọgụ kpụ ọkụ n'ọnụ, na-egbochi ọganihu ndị German ma na-egbochi ọganihu ndị German na 10 × 12 kilomita. Mgbe ndị agha Soviet gbanwere na mwakpo ahụ mgbe ha merisịrị ndị agha German, ndị agha 13th lụrụ ọgụ na Operation Kutuzov.