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
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
Soviet snipers
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Snipers of the Soviet Union played an important role mainly on the Eastern Front of World War II, apart from other preceding and subsequent conflicts. In World War II, Soviet snipers used the 7.62×54m
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Vasily Zaytsev (left), possibly the best-known Soviet sniper, during the Battle of Stalingrad in December 1942