The Stroyny was a Storozhevoy-class destroyer built for Soviet Navy in the late 1930s as the Project 7U (Uluchshenny; improved) where the design flaws of previous Project 7 Gnevny-class were addressed. She was laid down on 29th December 1938 as a Gnevny-class destroyer but she was rebuilt to Storozhevoy-class standard following Stalin's orders. She was commissioned on 30th August 1941. She spent her entire war career in the Leningrad area conducting shore bombardment and naval gunfire support. During her service, she had to have gun liners exchanged twice, as her main armament fired a total of 5,424 shells in the span of four years. In 1953, she was converted into a rescue ship, made a target ship in 1963, and sold for scrap two years later.

Stroyny was introduced as a premium pack during Update 1.79 "Project X". As the main armament of all Project 7U destroyers is manually driven, the turrets suffer from poor traverse speed rendering these difficult when switching targets. The guns themselves are also protected only by 8 mm thick antifragmentation armour covering sides, front and top side. As with most destroyers from other navies as well, the Storozhevoy class features unarmoured magazines above waterline leading to fatal explosion when hit. Her boilers and transmission also take up nearly the entire length of the ship past the bridge.

It was removed from the store after the 2019 Summer sale. It was made available for purchase with Golden Eagles for the 2019 "Russian Navy Day" mini-event until it was removed from in-game sale after the split of naval into Bluewater and Coastal trees in Update "New Power". It was briefly made available for purchase with Golden Eagles for the 2022, 2023, and 2024 "Russian Navy Day" mini-events.