Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kwehondo, iye akagoverwazve kuChitatu Destroyer Chikamu cheBaltic Fleet. Mukati mokubviswa kweSoviet Navy
kubva kuTallinn kuenda kuKronstadt panguva yeOperation Barbarossa, "Yakov Sverdlov" yakapiwa sechifambiso kune mureza. Munguva yokuvhiyiwa, iye akarova mugodhi ndokunyura pedyo Cape Juminda musi wa 28 August 1941. Chikepe chakapunzika chakawanikwa uye chakazivikanwa musi wa 16 Chikumi 2018.