Beginning her sea trials when Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began in June 1941, the destroyer was placed in service to provide naval gunfire support in September.

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.

Two pumps were installed in the former magazines and winches, cable hangers, compressed air cylinders, and decompression chambers were fitted on the deck and superstructure.

[8] By the 22 June 1941 beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, she was near completion, preparing for mooring trials.

The workload of the shipyard and the Siege of Leningrad prevented a quick completion, although on 30 August the Soviet naval jack was raised aboard her and on 20 September she was conditionally accepted by the navy.

[10] After the war, between August and October 1945, Stroyny completed sea trials before officially joining the Baltic Fleet on 11 December.

During this period she was renamed SDK-10 on 20 March 1956 and SS-17 on 27 December of that year, the latter after the Soviet Navy decided to classify her as a regular rescue ship.

The former destroyer was struck from the Navy List on 27 August 1965 before its crew disbanded on 12 September; the ship was scrapped at Liepāja between 1965 and 1966.