Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I muri i te whakaoranga, ka tukuna a Lyakhov ki te Runga ki te Tonga ki te Hauauru, ā, i te 4 o Oketopa ka tohua hei rangatira o te kaimahi o te 987th Rifle Regiment o te 226th Rifle Division. Ki te wehenga rite te wahi o te 21 Army whawhai ia i roto i te whawhai ārai i runga i te pareparenga rawhiti o te Seversky Donets. Mo ana mahi i te pakanga mo Yastrebovo i te 29 o Tihema, i whara ai ia, i whakawhiwhia a Major Lyakhov ki te Order of the Red Star i te 10 o Aperira 1942. I whara ia i te wa tuarua i te 13 o Hui-tanguru 1942 tata ki Sazhnoye, i tohua ia hei rangatira mo te roopu i te Paenga-whawha, i arahi ia i te Pakanga Tuarua o Kharkov i te marama o Mei me Pipiri. I te 22 o Hune i haere te wehenga ki te rohe o Korocha, ka uru atu ki te ope taua 21, tetahi waahanga o te Rohe ki te Hauauru ki te Hauauru, ka uru atu ki te Rohe o Stalingrad mai i te 12 o Hurae, ka whawhai ki te Pakanga o Voronezh
me te whakatikatika i nga huarahi ki Stalingrad. I te Pakanga o Voronezh, i whara a Lyakhov mo te wa tuatoru i te 13 o Pipiri i te tata ki Novo-aleksandrovskoy, Kharkov Oblast.