Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan Operation Barbarossa, mamayewar Jamus na Tarayyar Soviet, ya fara a ranar 22 ga Yuni, 1941, Drozd ya jagoranci rundunar a kan ayyukan da aka yi a cikin Irbe Strait da Gulf of Finland. Ya kula da motsi na jirgin ruwa daga Gulf of Riga zuwa Tallinn, kuma ya jagoranci rundunar a cikin tsaron babban sansanin sojan ruwa a tashar jiragen ruwa na karshe, da kuma kwashe shi
zuwa Kronstadt. An lura da "jagorancinsa na jaruntaka" a cikin waɗannan ayyukan ta Kwamitin Tsakiya na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Tarayyar Soviet, Drozd ya zama mataimakin Admiral a ranar 16 ga Satumba kuma an ba shi kwamandan rundunar jiragen ruwa na Baltic. A wannan matsayin ya kula da kwashewar Oktoba na Hanko Naval Base kuma ya jagoranci rundunar a cikin tsaron Leningrad. An ba shi lambar yabo ta biyu ta Red Banner a 1942, Drozd ya duba gyaran jiragen ruwa na jirgin ruwa da kuma horar da ma'aikatansa. An kashe shi a ranar 29 ga Janairu 1943 lokacin da motarsa ta fadi ta cikin kankara tsakanin Kronstadt da Leningrad a cikin Tekun Finland bayan wani harin Jamus ya karya kankara. An binne shi a cikin Kabarin Kwaminisanci na Alexander Nevsky Lavra a Leningrad.