The Kerch was a Fidonisy-class destroyer built for the Imperial Russian Navy. The Fidonisy-class was an improvement on the previous Derzky-class destroyers. Kerch was laid down on 29 October 1915 and commissioned on 27 June 1917. After the Russian Revolution, she joined the Bolsheviks and conducted several shore bombardments along the Crimea. On 29 April 1918, she sailed to Novorossiysk to avoid capture by advancing German forces. On 18 June, she scuttled the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship Svobodnaya Rossiya and Kerch’s sister ship Fidonisy to avoid being handed over to the Germans as a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Kerch herself was then scuttled for the same reason off the harbour entrance at Tuapse. In 1929, the Soviets attempted to refloat her, but the wreck broke apart. In 1932, they raised her engine room and used it as a source of energy for the Tuapse power plant.

Kerch was introduced in Update "New Power" as a GE premium. As a destroyer from the Imperial era, Kerch is very similar to the reserve Frunze, differing mainly in its secondary weapons, where it has a somewhat more usable secondary battery but far worse torpedoes.