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in 1929 and became a squad leader, assistant platoon commander, and platoon commander with the regiment. He transferred to the 24th Tank
Battalion of the division to serve as a tank platoon commander and as assistant chief of the battalion school for personnel in the early 1930s. Arkhipov graduated
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on 21 March 1940. He commanded the 108th
Separate Tank Battalion of the brigade from October 1940 and in May 1941 was appointed commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the
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of tank forces on 22 June 1963, he was transferred to the reserve due to illness in July 1971, and died in Moscow on 13 June 1985. He was buried at the
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during June and July, during which it was surrounded for three days. In mid-August, the 109th was relocated to the
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