Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yegipko ya koma USSR a watan Agusta 1938, yana ɗaukar matsayin kwamandan Brigade na biyu na Jirgin Ruwa na Black Sea. Ya riƙe wannan matsayi har zuwa Disamba 1939, lokacin da ya zama kwamandan rundunar jirgin ruwa na Baltic Fleet. Ya rike wannan mukamin a lokacin Yakin Soviet-Finnish, ya bar shi a watan Mayu 1940 don ci gaba da karatunsa a Kwalejin Naval. Ya kammala karatunsa a watan Afrilu na 1941, wanda aka inganta a ranar 26 ga Afrilu zuwa kyaftin na 1. Daga wannan watan har zuwa Satumba ya kasance kwamandan Brigade na 1 na Jirgin Ruwa na Baltic. Yegipko ya shiga cikin ayyukan soja bayan mamayewar Jamus na Tarayyar Soviet a watan Yunin 1941. A lokacin da Soviet ta kwashe Tallinn
a watan Agustan 1941, jirgin ruwansa, "S-5", ya buge wani ma'adinai, kuma Yegipko ya tashi daga hasumiyar kula da ruwa a cikin ruwa. Wani jirgin ruwa ya ceto shi, yana da rauni sosai. Daga Satumba zuwa Oktoba 1941 ya kasance a hannun Majalisar Sojoji na Baltic Fleet, kafin a nada shi a matsayin mai kula da jiragen ruwa na Soviet a Birtaniya. A matsayin mai kula da jiragen ruwa Yegipko sau da yawa ya yi aiki a matsayin mai lura a kan jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya, kuma ya tashi a kan jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya a kan aikin aikin Arctic.