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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 103rd most popular military personnel (down from 92nd in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 29th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 103 out of 2,058. Before her are Edward Smith, Ahmad Sanjar, Nestor Makhno, Andrea Doria, Robert E. Lee, and John of Austria. After her are Hattori Hanzō, Mardonius, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Walther von Reichenau, and Yonatan Netanyahu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 12. Before her are Ferruccio Lamborghini, Gregory Peck, Aldo Moro, Gough Whitlam, Elena Ceaușescu, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel. After her are Francis Crick, Roald Dahl, Ahmed Ben Bella, João Havelange, Olivia de Havilland, and Yehudi Menuhin. Among people deceased in 1974, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 15. Before her are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, James Chadwick, Pär Lagerkvist, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Vittorio De Sica, and U Thant. After her are Baldur von Schirach, Nick Drake, Julius Evola, David Oistrakh, Erich Kästner, and Rudolf Dassler.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 37 out of 1,365. Before her are Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Nestor Makhno (1888), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), Anne of Kiev (1025), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), and Petro Poroshenko (1965). After her are Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Wilhelm Reich (1897), Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Trofim Lysenko (1898), and Symon Petliura (1879).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Ukraine

Among military personnels born in Ukraine, Lyudmila Pavlichenko ranks 3. Before her are Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), and Nestor Makhno (1888). After her are Semyon Timoshenko (1895), John Demjanjuk (1920), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), and Alfred Redl (1864).

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