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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 1,117,909 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Roza Shanina is the 463rd most popular military personnel (up from 488th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Russia (down from 397th in 2019) and the 36th 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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  • 60.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Roza Shanina ranks 463 out of 1,468. Before her are Okita Sōji, Gustav Wagner, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Christian Wirth, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, and James Paul Moody. After her are José Sanjurjo, Jisaburō Ozawa, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Günther Korten, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, and Franz Böhme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Roza Shanina ranks 61. Before her are Matthäus Hetzenauer, Eduardo Chillida, Roberto Eduardo Viola, Rosamunde Pilcher, Hermann Buhl, and Roberts Blossom. After her are Ephraim Kishon, Antony Hewish, Michel Tournier, Raj Kapoor, Ante Marković, and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Among people deceased in 1945, Roza Shanina ranks 89. Before her are Hans Oster, Mitsuru Ushijima, Fritz Klein, Plutarco Elías Calles, Walter Bradford Cannon, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger. After her are Kurt Gerstein, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Kiril, Prince of Preslav, Philipp Bouhler, Anton Dostler, and Walter Krüger.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Roza Shanina ranks 401 out of 3,262. Before her are Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Vasili Kuznetsov (1901), Yaroslav II of Vladimir (1191), Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943), and Valery Leontiev (1949). After her are Shamil Basayev (1965), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Avvakum (1620), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Leonid Rogozov (1934), and Pyotr Krasnov (1869).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Roza Shanina ranks 36. Before her are Leonid Govorov (1897), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), and Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848). After her are Lauri Törni (1919), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Werner Ostendorff (1903), and Filipp Golikov (1900).

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