Perekop was designed to operate on the Amur River and on the Strait of Tartary between Outer Manchuria, Sakhalin and Japan to protect against the threat the Japanese empire posed against the Russian Far East.

Khasan had a small forecastle allowing for limited high seas capabilities along the Strait of Tartary and the Amur River Basin.

112 shipyard, in Gorky (now called Nizhny Novgorod) along with her two sister ships and named Lazo (Лазо) initially.

Work on Khasan continued at Gorky until the mid-1939 when sections of the monitor began to be sent east through the Trans-Siberian railway to Khabarovsk Factory No.

Khasan's intended role of defending against Japanese aggression had become redundant and her poor oceangoing characteristics and low speed meant she had little practicality on the high seas.

Khasan spent the rest of her service life as a training ship on the Amur River until 7 September 1955 when she was decommissioned and placed in reserve.