Kuntsevo Cemetery
Arkhipov advanced to command the 1st Separate Army at Constanța in April 1958 and in May 1960 became first deputy commander-in-chief of the Siberian Military District. From September 1961 he was senior military adviser to the commander of a military district of the East German National People's Army. Promoted to colonel general 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 Kuntsevo Cemetery.