About a year after the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, she was ordered to join the Northern Fleet, sailing through the Arctic Ocean.

Together with several other destroyers, Razyaryonny left the Soviet Far East in July 1942 and arrived off Murmansk three months later, suffering a bent propeller shaft that during the journey that kept her under repair until January 1943.

Razyaryonny was repaired postwar using a stern salvaged from a sunken sister ship and served until the late 1950s, when she was sunk during a nuclear test.

[11][12][13] As a result of the weakness of the Northern Fleet and the importance of the Arctic convoys of World War II, Stavka decided to transfer several modern ships from the Pacific to the Northern Fleet in May 1942; this was ordered by People's Commissar of the Navy Admiral Nikolay Kuznetsov on 18 June.

[13] It was replaced by a spare from Razumny within a week, but her speed had to be reduced to 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) due to vibrations from a bent propeller shaft.

Resuming the journey, the expedition entered the Chukchi Sea, where on 17 August Razyaryonny became trapped between ice floes, needing to be extricated by the icebreakers Mikoyan and Kaganovich.

After the expedition reached Kola Bay on 14 October,[15] Razyaryonny was placed in a floating dock at Cape Abram-Karg, where she was repaired by the beginning of 1943.

Six days later, however, the destroyer ran aground on Salny Island en route to Vaenga after a power failure temporarily disabled steering.

[12] With a detachment of ships, she searched for German warships as far as Berlevåg in far northern Norway on 26 October, and finding none, shelled Vardø during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive.

[citation needed][17] While escorting Convoy KP-1 to Liinakhamari with Razumny on 23 January 1945, the destroyer discovered the German submarine U-293 with her sonar at 12:20.

[16][18] Razyaryonny became part of the White Sea Flotilla on 1 March 1954, but was removed from the combat fleet on 17 February 1956 before being reclassified as the test ship OS-4 ten days later.