MILITARY PERSONNEL

Roza Shanina

1924 - 1945

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Roza Georgiyevna Shanina (Russian: Ро́за Гео́ргиевна Ша́нина, IPA: [ˈrozə ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪɪvnəˈʂanʲɪnə]; 3 April 1924 – 28 January 1945) was a Soviet sniper during World War II who was credited with over 50 kills. Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a sniper on the front line. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roza Shanina has received more than 1,147,747 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Roza Shanina is the 682nd most popular military personnel (down from 463rd in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from Russia (down from 400th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Roza Shanina was a Soviet sniper during World War II. She was the most successful female sniper in history, with a confirmed kill count of 309 Germans.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Roza Shanina ranks 682 out of 2,058. Before her are Marie-Pierre Kœnig, August Hirt, Ling Tong, Duško Popov, Grigory Kulik, and Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After her are Rostam Farrokhzad, Hans Langsdorff, Mark W. Clark, Raoul Salan, Maximilian von Prittwitz, and Kemal Reis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Roza Shanina ranks 93. Before her are Paul Desmond, Arthur Danto, Vasil Bykaŭ, Leonid Kogan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and Jacques Vergès. After her are Tengiz Abuladze, Robert Frank, Noboru Takeshita, Marina Berti, Jozef Tomko, and Richard Bull. Among people deceased in 1945, Roza Shanina ranks 119. Before her are Wilhelm Rediess, Takijirō Ōnishi, Leonid Pasternak, August Hirt, Robert Brasillach, and Rudolf Lange. After her are Le Pétomane, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Robert Desnos, Albrecht Penck, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Roza Shanina ranks 564 out of 3,761. Before her are Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Xenia of Saint Petersburg (1719), Lauri Kristian Relander (1883), Konstantin Simonov (1915), Valery Gergiev (1953), and Otto Braun (1872). After her are Nicolas de Staël (1914), Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835), Uliana of Tver (1325), Matvei Zakharov (1898), Nikolai Medtner (1879), and Yury Solomin (1935).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Roza Shanina ranks 52. Before her are Lauri Törni (1919), Mikhail Skobelev (1843), Sergey Biryuzov (1904), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Markian Popov (1902), and Werner Kempf (1886). After her are Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Mikhail Miloradovich (1771), Sergey Akhromeyev (1923), Nikolay Voronov (1899), and Boris Sheremetev (1652).

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