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Lyudmila Pavlichenko

1916 - 1974

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Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (née Belova; 12 July [O.S. 29 June] 1916 – 10 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. She is credited with killing 309 enemy combatants, thus being considered as one of the deadliest snipers in history. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol, during the early stages of the fighting on the Eastern Front. After she was injured in battle by a mortar shell, she was evacuated to Moscow. After she recovered from her injuries, she trained other Red Army snipers and was a public spokeswoman for the Red Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lyudmila Pavlichenko is the 92nd most popular military personnel, the 29th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Military Personnel.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper during World War II. She was most famous for her 309 confirmed kills, which is the most of any female sniper in history.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 92 out of 2,058. Before her are Ivan Konev, Subutai, Erich Hartmann, Hattori Hanzō, Walther von Brauchitsch, and Hephaestion. After her are Nero Claudius Drusus, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Albert Kesselring, Heinrich Müller, Bernard Montgomery, and Wilhelm Canaris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 10. Before her are Kirk Douglas, Elena Ceaușescu, Roald Dahl, Gregory Peck, Francis Crick, and Aldo Moro. After her are Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Gough Whitlam, Claude Shannon, João Havelange, Ahmed Ben Bella, and Olivia de Havilland. Among people deceased in 1974, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 7. Before her are Charles Lindbergh, Oskar Schindler, Georgy Zhukov, Juan Perón, Georges Pompidou, and Amin al-Husseini. After her are James Chadwick, Vittorio De Sica, Pär Lagerkvist, U Thant, Baldur von Schirach, and Duke Ellington.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 29 out of 1,365. Before her are Anna Akhmatova (1889), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ludwig von Mises (1881), and Kliment Voroshilov (1881). After her are Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), Edgar de Wahl (1867), Sergei Korolev (1906), Wilhelm Reich (1897), Ivan Mazepa (1639), and Moshe Sharett (1894).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 2. Before her are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595). After her are Nestor Makhno (1888), Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Roman Shukhevych (1907), John Demjanjuk (1920), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Mikhail Kirponos (1892), and Alfred Redl (1864).

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