Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A farkon yakin, an sake sanya shi zuwa Rukunin Jirgin Ruwa na Uku na Baltic Fleet. A lokacin da aka kwashe sojojin Soviet
daga Tallinn zuwa Kronstadt a lokacin Operation Barbarossa, "Yakov Sverdlov" an sanya shi a matsayin mai rakiyar jirgin ruwa. A lokacin aikin, ta buga wani mine kuma ya nutse kusa da Cape Juminda a ranar 28 ga Agusta, 1941. An gano jirgin ruwa kuma an gano shi a ranar 16 ga Yuni, 2018; yana kwance a zurfin, jirgin ya rabu biyu.