#soviet sniper

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Kyra Petrovskaya: Soviet sniper girl and survivor the Siege of Leningrad, 1940-1980

Kyra Petrovskaya was a Russian-American author, actress, and sniper during World War II.

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Lady Death (Людмила Павличенко)

Lyudmila Pavlichenko (30.05.1916 — 10.10.1974)

most successful female sniper in history!

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OKOK!!! HERE ME OUT!!! JUST WAIT!! But..... What if........ Lady Nagant is or could be russian. Ok, here me out THIS is Female Soviet Sniper Lyudmila Pavilchenko, who had 309 sniper kills to her credit during the japanese war with the russian army:

SHE SPEAKS PERFECT RUSSIAN AND SOUNDS AMAZING DOING SO!!! AND THIS IS LITERARY LADY NAGANT BUT REAL, NOW WHAT IF WE CROSS REFRENCE BOTH AND LET HER SPEAK RUSSIAN. SOMEBODY GET HER A RUSSIAN VA CAUSE SHE WOULD SOUND SO SEXY. OR SCREW IT SHE CAN SPEAK BOTH!!! RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE IDC, JUST DO IT.

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Lady Death

Major! Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974)

Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is credited with 309 confirmed kills, making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history.

In 1942, she toured the US, Canada and the UK at the invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt, relating her experiences as a soldier on the front lines.

Initially she was not taken seriously by the American press who tried to belittle her and even criticised her uniform:

"Gentlemen,I am 25 years old and I have killed 309 fascist invaders by now. Don't you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?"

(Chicago)

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Советский снайпер Семён Номоконов Semyon Nomokonov (1900–1973) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 367 kills. An ethnic Evenk, Nomokonov was among the indigenous peoples of Russia who fought in the war. He received the nickname Taiga Shaman from the enemies.Nomokonov was born in a poor family of hunters and from childhood lived in taiga. Nomokonov took the rifle for the first time at the age of seven. He hunted sable, Manchurian wapiti and elk, and was nicknamed Eye of the Kite.Nomokonov started his military service in August 1941, initially in a subsistence farm of a regiment. Nomokonov became a sniper by chance. In the fall of 1941 he was evacuating one of the wounded, when he noticed a German, aiming at him. Nomokonov killed him with his own rifle. After that Nomokonov was transferred to a sniper platoon. He started to shoot from a Mosin–Nagant rifle without a telescopic sight. Nomokonov fought at the Valdai Heights, Karelian Isthmus, Ukraine, Lithuania, East Prussia and then in Manchuria. He initially marked the number of kills on his smoking pipe. Nomokonov was wounded eight times and suffered a blast injury twice.As a sniper instructor, Nomokonov trained over 150 soldiers.Nomokonov was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Lenin and medals.He left nine children and 49 grandchildren.

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Роза Шанина - советский одиночный снайпер отдельного взвода снайперов-девушек 3-го Белорусского фронта, кавалер ордена Славы; одна из первых женщин-снайперов, удостоенных этой награды.

Roza Shanina - a Soviet sniper during World War II, received Orders of Glory 3rd and 2nd class, one of the first female snipers to receive this award, and Medal of Courage.

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ROZA SHANINA

Roza Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with fifty-nine confirmed kills, including twelve soldiers during the Battle of Vilnius. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a marksman on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession).

In 1944, a Canadian newspaper described Shanina as “the unseen terror of East Prussia”. She became the first Soviet female sniper to be awarded the Order of Glory and was the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive it. According to the report of Major Degtyarev (the commander of the 1138th Rifle Regiment) for the corresponding commendation list, between 6 and 11 April Shanina killed 13 enemy soldiers while subjected to artillery and machine-gun fire. By May 1944, her sniper tally increased to 17 confirmed enemy kills, and Shanina was praised as a precise and brave soldier. The same year, on 9 June, Shanina’s portrait was featured on the front page of the Soviet newspaper Unichtozhim Vraga.

When Operation Bagration commenced in the Vitebsk region on 22 June 1944, it was decided that female snipers would be withdrawn. They voluntarily continued to support the advancing infantry anyway, and despite the Soviet policy of sparing snipers, Shanina asked to be sent to the front line. Although her request was refused, she went anyway. Shanina was later sanctioned for going to the front line without permission but did not face a court-martial. She wanted to be attached to a battalion or a reconnaissance company, turning to the commander of the 5th Army, Nikolai Krylov. Shanina also wrote twice to Joseph Stalin with the same request.

In the face of the East Prussian Offensive, the Germans tried to strengthen the localities they controlled against great odds. In a diary entry dated 16 January 1945, Shanina wrote that despite her wish to be in a safer place, some unknown force was drawing her to the front line. In the same entry, she wrote that she had no fear and that she had even agreed to go “to a melee combat”. The next day, Shanina wrote in a letter that she might be on the verge of being killed because her battalion had lost 72 out of 78 people. Her last diary entry reports that German fire had become so intense that the Soviet troops, including herself, had sheltered inside self-propelled guns.

On 27 January Shanina was severely injured while shielding a wounded artillery officer. She was found by two soldiers disemboweled, with her chest torn open by a shell fragment. Despite attempts to save her, Shanina died the following day near the Richau estate (later a Soviet settlement of Telmanovka. Shanina was buried under a spreading pear tree on the shore of the Alle River (now called the Lava) and was later reinterred in the settlement of Znamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast.

In 1964–65 a renewed interest in Shanina arose in the Soviet press, largely due to the publication of her diary. The newspaper Severny Komsomolets asked Shanina’s contemporaries to write what they knew about her. Streets in Arkhangelsk, Shangaly, and Stroyevskoye were named after her, and the village of Yedma has a museum dedicated to Shanina. The local school where she studied in 1931–35 has a commemorative plate.

Shanina’s personal life was thwarted by war. On 10 October 1944, she wrote in her diary, “I can’t accept that Misha Panarin doesn’t live anymore. What a good guy! [He] has been killed … He loved me, I know, and I him … My heart is heavy, I’m twenty, but I have no close [male] friend”. In November 1944, Shanina wrote that she “is flogging into her head that [she] loves” a man named Nikolai, although he “doesn’t shine in upbringing and education”. In the same entry, she wrote that she did not think about marriage because “it’s not the time now”. She later wrote that she “had it out” with Nikolai and “wrote him a note in the sense of but I’m given to the one and will love no other one“. Ultimately in her last diary record, filled with somber tones, Shanina wrote that she “cannot find a solace” now and is “of no use to anyone”.

This is the last known picture of Rosa Shanina. The photo was taken on January 1, 1945. 28 days later she was killed in action.

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Lyudmila Pavlichenko | Людмила Павличенко

Liudmyla Mykhailovna Pavlychenko was a Ukrainian Red Army Soviet sniper during World War II. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history