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  2. Tania Chernova - Wikipedia

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    After that, she joined Vasily Zaitsev's sniper school and trained as a sniper. The group of snipers that Zaitsev formed was called "The Hares". Chernova participated in a raid on a German headquarters after which she and the rest of the Hares claimed to have killed Germans by picking off guards one by one. Tania claimed she had killed 24 soldiers.

  3. Vasily Zaitsev (sniper) - Wikipedia

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    Zaitsev, left, in Stalingrad, December 1942 Zaitsev's sniper rifle, a 7.62×54mmR Mosin Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a PU 3.5× sniper scope on display at the Volgograd's Stalingrad Panorama Museum. Zaitsev was serving in the Soviet Navy as a clerk in Vladivostok when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Like many of his ...

  4. Erwin König - Wikipedia

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    Erwin König was reported to have been a German Heer Officer in the Wehrmacht the regular military of Germany or was an Officer in the Waffen-SS who was a sniper killed by the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad.

  5. This WWII Sniper Turned the Battlefield Into His Hunting Ground

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    Confirmed kills: 400 Army: Soviet Union Vasily Zaitsev was a renowned sniper in the Soviet military. He reportedly engaged in a high-stakes duel during the Battle of Stalingrad with a German ...

  6. War of the Rats - Wikipedia

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    Colonel Heinz Thorvald was joined by Corporal Nikki Mond in his search to find and kill Vasily Zaytsev. Nikki acted as a spotter and general accomplice to Thorvald. Tania Chernova is an American with family ties to Russia. Her family was killed during the war and the only thing she wants is revenge.

  7. Snipers of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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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 7.62×54mmR rifle cartridge with light, heavy, armour-piercing (B-30), armour-piercing-incendiary (B-32), zeroing-and-incendiary (P3), and tracer bullets ...

  8. List of Russian people - Wikipedia

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    Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper, killed 412 enemy soldiers and officers, including 6 snipers, a hero of the Battle of Stalingrad Georgy Zhukov , Soviet marshal, chief of the General Staff and representative of STAVKA , four times the Hero of the Soviet Union , oversaw all the main Soviet battle operations of the Eastern Front (World War II ...

  9. Sasha Filippov - Wikipedia

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    Sasha Filippov was born in 1925 in Stalingrad (modern-day Volgograd), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.At the time of the Battle of Stalingrad, Filippov lived in the Stalingrad suburb of Dar-Gora with his father, mother, and a younger brother who was born in 1932.