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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. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession). In 1944, a Canadian newspaper described Shanina as "the unseen terror of East Prussia". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roza Shanina is the 557th most popular military personnel (up from 682nd in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from Russia (up from 564th in 2019) and the 40th 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 557 out of 2,058. Before her are Deng Ai, William Bligh, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Erich Fellgiebel, Yevhen Konovalets, and William Westmoreland. After her are Franz von Hipper, Johan Laidoner, Xu Chu, Serena, Xu Da, and Ivan Yakubovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Roza Shanina ranks 84. Before her are Torsten Wiesel, Ephraim Kishon, Sabu Dastagir, David Bronstein, Kenneth Waltz, and Christopher C. Kraft Jr.. After her are Sverre Fehn, Bulat Okudzhava, James Baldwin, Hermann Buhl, Claude Sautet, and Milka Planinc. Among people deceased in 1945, Roza Shanina ranks 100. Before her are Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Fritz Klein, Hans Kammler, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Albrecht Penck. After her are Bernhard Rust, Georg Kaiser, Walter Bradford Cannon, Philipp Bouhler, Eduard Bloch, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Roza Shanina ranks 459 out of 3,761. Before her are Ivan Bilibin (1876), Mikhail of Tver (1271), False Dmitry II (1600), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Maria Spiridonova (1884), and Vladimir Bekhterev (1857). After her are Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Pavel Milyukov (1859), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Nikolay Bobrikov (1839), Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1922), and Sacha Guitry (1885).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Roza Shanina ranks 40. Before her are Viktor Kulikov (1921), Alexander Yegorov (1883), Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), and Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (1737). After her are Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), Filipp Golikov (1900), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Alexander Pokryshkin (1913), Lauri Törni (1919), and Werner Kempf (1886).

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