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Once she had recovered from her injuries, instead of being sent back to the front, she became a propagandist for the Red Army, [5] where she was nicknamed "Lady Death." [14] [5] [2] (The Germans called her "the Russian bitch from hell.") [15] She also trained snipers for combat duty until the end of the war in 1945. [2]
Tatyana Nikolayevna Baramzina (Russian: Татья́на Никола́евна Барамзина́; 19 December 1919 – 5 July 1944) was a Soviet sniper and telephone operator in World War II who was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 March 1945 for her self-sacrifice to defend wounded Red Army soldiers.
Tatyana Ignatovna Kostyrina (Russian: Татьяна Игнатовна Костырина; 18 July 1924 – 22 November 1943) was a sniper in the Red Army during World War II and one of the top women snipers in history. After her death in combat she was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 16 May 1944.
In 1941–1945 a total of 2,484 Soviet female snipers were deployed for the war and their combined tally of kills is estimated to be at least 11,280. [ 19 ] After the momentous victory in the Battle of Stalingrad , the Soviets mounted nationwide counter-offensives and Shanina on 2 April 1944 joined the 184th Rifle Division , where a separate ...
Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya (Russian: Нина Алексеевна Лобковская; born 8 March 1924) was a female sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She attained the rank of lieutenant and commanded a separate women’s sniper company of the 3rd Shock Army during World War II. She was wounded twice and killed 89 people during ...
Olga Fyodorvna Kiss née Bordashevskaya (Russian: Ольга Фёдоровна Бордашевская; 1919 – 29 March 2002) was a soldier in the Red Army during World War II, credited as one of the top women snipers in history.
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.
Soviet sniper. The most successful female sniper during World War II. She served in the Soviet army and had 309 confirmed kills. Pavlichenko was called "Lady Death" for her ability with a sniper rifle. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odesa and the siege of Sevastopol. She was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union [48] 309 Soviet Union