Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Operation Barbarossa, mbuso agha Germany nke Soviet Union, bidoro na 22 June 1941, Drozd duziri ndị agha na-arụ ọrụ na-egwupụta akụ na Irbe Strait na Gulf of Finland. Ọ na-elekọta ngagharị nke ụgbọ mmiri ahụ site na Gulf nke Riga ruo Tallinn, ma na-eduzi ndị agha ahụ na-agbachitere isi ụgbọ mmiri na ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri nke ikpeazụ, na nke ya.
Ịpụ na Kronstadt. N'ịbụ onye Kọmitii Central nke Communist Party nke Soviet Union kwuru maka "ndú obi ike" ya na arụmọrụ ndị a, a kwalitere Drozd ka ọ bụrụ osote onye isi na 16 Septemba ma nye ya onye isi ndị Baltic Fleet Squadron. N'ọnọdụ a, o lekọtara mwepụ nke Ọktọba nke Hanko Naval Base ma duru ndị agha ahụ na-agbachitere Leningrad. E nyere ya Order nke Red Banner nke abụọ na 1942, Drozd nyochara ndozi nke ụgbọ mmiri nke ndị agha ahụ na ọzụzụ ọgụ nke ndị ọrụ ya. E gburu ya na 29 Jenụwarị 1943 mgbe ụgbọ ala ya dara n'etiti ice dị n'etiti Kronstadt na Leningrad na Ọwara Oké Osimiri Finland mgbe shell German mebiri ice ahụ. E liri ya n'ili ndị Kọmunist nke Alexander Nevsky Lavra na Leningrad.