In the autumn of 1934 Sergey Bartminskiy, the former deputy of the Ukrainian SSR State Political Directorate forced Honcharenko to move to Ivanovo where he started playing for the local Dynamo.
In the same year he played for RSFSR team and was named one of the best 33 football players in USSR and the second best right winger.
During the Nazi occupation of Kyiv he lived with his mother-in-law and was a member of a sport society Rukh.
The members of Rukh were loyal to the new civil administration, which made it possible to work legally, receive rations, and, most importantly, to avoid being arrested and sent to Germany.
Soon he was found by Nikolai Trusevich and was offered a workplace at the bakery #1, where he was able to play for a factory football team Start Kyiv.
First, he was held in a solitary confinement by the Gestapo, then, in September 1942 he was transferred to Syrets concentration camp.
In September 1964, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Honcharenko the Medal for Battle Merit.