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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 ...
Tania Chernova (1920? – c. 2015?) was a Russian-American woman known for serving in the Red Army as a sniper during World War II.She traveled to Belarus to get her grandparents out of Russia, but upon arriving learned that German invaders had already killed them.
He is sent to Stalingrad to take on the increasingly aggressive Soviet snipers. [7] Initially he is successful, killing four of Zaytsev's partners, but eventually he is outwitted by the Russian, portrayed by Jude Law. [8] König appears in the 1999 novel War of the Rats by David L. Robbins in which he is an SS Colonel named Heinz Thorvald.
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 ...
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.
The film's main character is a fictionalized version of Vasily Zaitsev, a sniper and Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. [8] [9] It includes a snipers' duel between Zaitsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König. [10]
An Austrian sniper on the Eastern Front during World War II who was credited with 345 kills between 1943 and 1945. [30] 345 Nazi Germany: Abukhadzhi Idrisov: 1918–1983 1939–1944 A Soviet Chechen sniper credited with 349+ kills during World War II. He was reported to have killed 100 soldiers in only 10 days of fighting.
Vasily Zaitsev may refer to: Vasily Zaitsev (pilot) (1910–1961), Soviet World War II flying ace Vasily Zaitsev (sniper) (1915–1991), Soviet World War II sniper