Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te Operation Barbarossa, te whakaekenga a Tiamana ki te Soviet Union, i tiimata i te 22 o Pipiri 1941, i arahi a Drozd i te wehenga i runga i nga mahi whakaeke i te Irbe Strait me te Gulf of Finland. I whakahaerehia e ia te nekehanga o te kaipuke mai i te Gulf of Riga ki Tallinn, a ka arahi i te wehenga i te parenga o te turanga moana nui i te tauranga whakamutunga, me ona
Te nekehanga ki Kronstadt. I mohiotia mo tana "kaiarahi maia" i roto i enei mahi e te Komiti Matua o te Rōpū Communist o te Soviet Union, i whakatairangahia a Drozd ki te kaitohutohu tuarua i te 16 o Hepetema ka whakawhiwhia ki te rangatira o te Baltic Fleet Squadron. I tenei tuunga i tirotiro ia i te tangohanga o Oketopa o te turanga moana o Hanko me te arahi i te roopu i te paruru o Leningrad. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te Order of the Red Banner i te tau 1942, i tirotirohia e Drozd nga whakatika o nga kaipuke o te kapa me te whakangungu whawhai o ona kaimahi. I mate ia i te 29 o Hanuere 1943 i te wa i hinga ai tana motuka i roto i te hukapapa i waenga o Kronstadt me Leningrad i te Moana o Finland i muri i te pakaru o te hukapapa a Tiamana. I tanumia ia ki te urupa Communist o te Alexander Nevsky Lavra i Leningrad.