Serving with the Baltic Fleet, she participated in minelaying and escort operations in the Gulf of Riga campaign after the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941. Taken out of action by propeller damage in the first half of July, the destroyer returned to service in late August, conducting shore bombardments and minelaying during the Siege of Leningrad. In November and December she participated in the evacuation of Hanko, after which she remained in Leningrad. "Stoyky" saw little action for the rest of the war, receiving the title of Guards in 1942 and being renamed "Vitse-Admiral Drozd" () in 1943. Postwar, she continued to serve in the Baltic and was briefly converted to a target ship before being sunk during a 1961 storm.