The name means echo. Hibiki was the second of the Akatsuki class, a Type III Fubuki-class design whose turrets elevated to 75 degrees so the main guns could be used against aircraft. Maizuru Naval Arsenal laid her down on 21 February 1930, launched her on 16 June 1932 and commissioned her on 31 March 1933 in Destroyer Division 6 with Inazuma, Ikazuchi and Akatsuki.
At Pearl Harbor she was with Destroyer Division 6, covering Kondo's Southern Force and escorting troop ships for the landings in Malaya and the Philippines through March 1942. In May and June 1942 she supported the Kiska landing. Catalinas damaged her at Kiska on 12 June, and she went back to Ominato. She escorted the carriers Unyo and Taiyo between Yokosuka and Truk from November 1942 to April 1943, then patrolled north of Hokkaido and helped evacuate the Aleutians in August 1943.
In late 1943 she escorted tankers and troop convoys to Truk and Rabaul, and she rescued survivors of the tanker Terukawa Maru on 21 December. On 14 May 1944 she rescued 125 survivors of her sister Inazuma. In the Battle of the Philippine Sea she was with the First Supply Force and was strafed, with two men killed. In September 1944, leaving Takao with a convoy for Manila, she was torpedoed by USS Hake; the explosion almost severed her bow and she went home for long repairs.
She spent 1945 in home waters and was a guard ship at Kure at the surrender. After the war she repatriated troops. The Soviet Navy took her at Nakhodka on 5 April 1947, rearmed her with Soviet guns, and renamed her Verniy and, in 1948, Dekabrist.
Sources: Allyn Nevitt's combinedfleet.com Tabular Record of Movement for IJN Hibiki; Wikipedia, Japanese destroyer Hibiki, rewritten here.