The following month, "Smyshlyony" began escorting supply and troop convoys to and from encircled Sevastopol and attacked Axis troops with her main guns. She escorted the tanker "Emba", towing a floating dock for an evacuated repair base, from Sevastopol to Poti between 10 and 15 November. Storms on this voyage repeatedly snapped the tow cables, forcing the destroyer to take the dock in tow herself. She began shelling Axis troops near Sevastopol on 23 November and on 28 November stood off Cape Fiolent, escorting the battleship as the latter conducted a bombardment, to which "Smyshlyony" added 120 shells. Between 28 November and the end of the year, the ship fired almost a thousand shells. After undergoing scheduled preventative maintenance at Tuapse in December, she returned to Sevastopol with reinforcements and bombarded Axis forces, expending more than 800 shells between 22 and 31 December. On 28–30 December, she covered the amphibious landings at Kerch and Feodosia.