Although her crew suffered heavy losses, the aft part of the ship remained afloat and was towed to Soviet naval bases, ultimately being repaired during the Siege of Leningrad by the fitting of a bow from an unfinished Project 30 destroyer from late 1942 to early 1943.

Returning to service in September of the latter year, Storozhevoy bombarded Axis positions during the final months of the siege.

The crew complement of the Storozhevoy class numbered 207 in peacetime, but this increased to 271 in wartime, as more personnel were needed to operate additional equipment.

Variations in fuel oil capacity meant that the range of the Project 7Us varied from 1,380 to 2,700 nautical miles (2,560 to 5,000 km; 1,590 to 3,110 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph), that upper figure demonstrated by Storozhevoy.

[5] The new bow fitted onto Storozhevoy included the twin 130 mm BL-2M turret of the Project 30 ships, with a supply of 744 rounds.

[9] With the 2nd Destroyer Division of the fleet's Light Forces Detachment, she was transferred from Riga to Ust-Dvinsk, Latvia, on 14 June 1941, a week before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

To lay additional mines there, she departed Ust-Dvinsk again on the night of 26 June alongside her sisters Stoyky and Serdity as well as the old Izyaslav-class destroyer Engels.

A torpedo launched by either S-59 or S-31 struck the left side of the ship near the forward magazine; the resulting explosion blew off her bow with its superstructure and the foremast.

Her further combat service was limited to shelling Axis positions in support of ground forces during the Siege of Leningrad.

Her crew was disbanded on 28 January 1958 and on 11 March she was removed from the fleet to be transferred for scrapping, which was carried out by Glavvtorchermet between 1958 and 1959[12] at Liepāja.