Arsenal Factory
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Arsenal Special Device Production State Enterprise, also known as the Arsenal Factory, is one of the oldest factories in Kyiv.
Headquarters of the Arsenal SDP SE.
The Kyiv Arsenal Factory, seen with bullet damage during the pro-Bolshevik mutiny when Ukrainian government troops suppressed them.
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko
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Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is the deadliest female sniper, and one of the deadliest snipers in history, with 309 confirmed kills. She
Arsenal Factory
…and the factory was initially based in a Kyiv Fortress compound in the Pechersk (Печерськ) district of the city. Workers at the factory included sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who worked as a grinder at the factory prior to 1941. On January 29, 1918, the workers of the factory organized an armed pro-Bolshevik mutiny known…
Pavlichenko in 1943
Pavlichenko in a trench (1942).
Pavlichenko (center) with Justice Robert Jackson (left) and US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in Washington DC in September 1942.
Second Soviet Union-issued postage stamp dedicated to Pavlichenko