 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kwa1943, Hondo yeGungwa Dema yaisanganisira vatyairi vatanhatu chete vakasara, kusanganisira Nezamozhnik uye Zheleznyakov. Akatakura Mukuru weNaval General Staff Admiral Ivan Isakov kubva kuPoti kuenda kuTuapse musi wa13 Ndira. Mazuva matatu gare gare, iye negwapa rokutsvaira zvimbambaira Gruz vakaperekedza Kalinin kubva kuPoti kuenda kuTuapse. Pasi mureza Counter Admiral Nikolay Basisty akatsigira kumhara musi 4 February munharaunda Stanichka uye Yuzhnaya Ozereyka pamwe Zheleznyakov, kuedza kudzorera Novorossiysk. Vaparadzi vaviri vakapfura nzvimbo dzeGerman mumupata weNovorossiysk uye paOzereyka pakati pa03:52 na06:15 mangwanani iwayo, ne Nezamozhnik ichishandisa zana nemakumi manomwe nematatu 102 mm shells mukutsigira kurutivi rworuboshwe rwekumhara kukuru. Kumhara kukuru kwakasangana nekupikiswa kwakasimba uye na6: 20 Basisty akaraira kubviswa kuti vadzivise kurwiswa nendege kweGerman, vachisiya mauto akange aburitswa; kumhara kwekutsausa kwakawana beachhead iyo yakazozivikanwa seMalaya Zemlya. Muparadzi akafukidza kubviswa kwezvikepe zvehondo kuGelendzhik ndokudzokera kuTuapse. Munzira, iye akarwiswa vashanu German Junkers Ju 87 vanobhururuka mabhomba pa 10:13, uyo akarasikirwa ne mabhomba gumi nemashanu; imwe ndege yakanzi yakadonhedzwa nevanopesana nendege. 