 Bodry aiva mumwe 29 s pamutemo kuzivikanwa sezvo Project 7 yakavakwa nokuda Soviet Navy mukupera 1930s. Yakapedzwa muna 1938, yakapiwa basa muBlack Sea Fleet. Pashure pokupinda kweGermany muSoviet Union Operation Barbarossa muna June 1941, ngarava yacho yakafukidza kubviswa kweDanube Flotilla kuOdessa mwedzi wakatevera. Munguva yeKukombwa kweOdessa, Bodry yakatakura mauto nezvokuyamura apo yaipa rutsigiro rwemoto wehondo kuvadziviriri uye yakabatsira kuvaparadza muna Gumiguru. Munguva yeKukombwa kweSevastopol, akaita mabasa akafanana uye akabva apinda muhondo yeKerch Peninsulapakupera kwa1941. Ngarava yacho yakarova mauto eGermany muna January 1942 isati yatanga kugadziriswa mwedzi wakatevera. Bodry yakakuvadzwa zvikuru mukati mokurwiswa nendege kweGermany muna July uye yakanga ichigadziriswa kutozosvikira pakupera kwa 1944. 