Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is credited with killing 309 enemy combatants. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol, during the early stages of the fighting on the Eastern Front. Her score of 309 kills likely places her within the top five snipers of all time, but her kills may be significantly more numerous, as a confirmed kill has to be witnessed by a third party.

Bila Tserkva is a city in Central Ukraine, located on the Ros river in the historical Right Bank region. The largest city in Kyiv Oblast, it serves as the administrative centre of Bila Tserkva Raion and Bila Tserkva urban hromada and has a population of 207,273..