During the Soviet offensive against Japan in August–September 1945, "T-275" saw action against Japanese forces in the Soviet landings at Seising, Korea, on 15 August 1945. In February 1946, the United States began negotiations for the return of ships loaned to the Soviet Union for use during World War II, and on 8 May 1947, United States Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal informed the United States Department of State that the United States Department of the Navy wanted 480 of the 585 combatant ships it had transferred to the Soviet Union for World War II use returned. Deteriorating relations between the two countries as the Cold War broke out led to protracted negotiations over the ships, and by the mid-1950s the U.S. Navy found it too expensive to bring home ships that had become worthless to it anyway. Many ex-American ships were merely administratively "returned" to the United States and instead sold for scrap in the Soviet Union, while the U.S. Navy did not seriously pursue the return of others because it viewed them as no longer worth the cost of recovery. The Soviet Union never returned "T-275" to the United States, instead decommissioning her on 23 October 1947, after which she was converted into a civilian whaling ship and renamed Buran ("Blizzard"). Unaware of her conversion or status, the U.S. Navy reclassified her as a "fleet minesweeper" (MSF) and redesignated her MSF-263 on 7 February 1955. "Buran" was scrapped in 1960. Unaware of her fate, the U.S. Navy kept "Measure" on its Naval Vessel Register until finally striking her on 1 January 1983. The Soviet Union awarded "T-275" the Order of the Red Banner on 14 September 1945 for her World War II service against Japanese forces in August–September 1945.