It was powered by the 120hp M-2 engine which was also a copy of the original British one and was produced from 1925 until 1929.
Due to the larger, but lighter floats, it was 170Kg lighter than the original 504L which was the original floatplane version of the 504K.
It only served with the Soviet Workers and Peasant's Air Fleet as a trainer in the Sevastopol Maritime Flying School and saw also service in the training squadron of the Baltic Fleet, based in Leningrad during the 1920s. Apparently it was also briefly used as a scouting airplane for the Baltic Fleet. Seventy three machines were made and some of them served until 1934.
Sources:
1. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/У-1 (translated)
2. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/mu1.html (translated)
3. http://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/108785
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