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Battle for Sevastopol (Russian: Битва за Севастополь, lit. 'Battle for Sevastopol'; Ukrainian: Незламна, lit. 'Indestructible') is a 2015 biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet woman who joined the Red Army to fight the German invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. [1]
The number of soldiers Pavlichenko is credited with killing during World War II was 309, [12] [9] including 36 Axis snipers. In June 1942, Pavlichenko was hit in the face with shrapnel from a mortar shell. When she was injured, the Soviet High Command ordered for her to be evacuated from Sevastopol via submarine. [13]
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 ...
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 or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...
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 ...
Ivan Pavlovich Gorelikov (Russian: Иван Павлович Гореликов; 27 October 1907 — 6 November 1975) was one of the best Soviet snipers during World War II, who killed over 300 Nazis. He commanded a sniper platoon during the war.
Natalya Venediktovna Kovshova (Russian: Наталья Венедиктовна Ковшова; 26 November 1920 – 14 August 1942) was a Soviet female sniper who fought in World War II. She fought with her friend Mariya Polivanova who acted as her spotter.