 Nyorai kuenderera kweiyi ndima - Boyky yaive imwe ye29 s inozivikanwa zviri pamutemo seProjekti 7 yakavakirwa Soviet Navy mukupera kwema1930. Yakapedzwa muna 1939, yakapiwa kuBlack Sea Fleet. Pashure pokutanga kwokupinda kweGermany muSoviet Union Operation Barbarossa muna June 1941, ngarava yacho yakabatsira kuisa migodhi pedyo neSevastopol. Mukati meKukombwa kweOdessa, Boyky yakatakura mauto nekutengeswa uku ichipa rutsigiro rwezvombo zvehondo kune vadziviriri uye ndokuvabatsira kuti vabve muna Gumiguru. Munguva yeKukombwa kweSevastopol, akaita mabasa akafanana uye akabva apinda muhondo yeKerch Peninsula pakupera kwa1941. 