RealLifeHeroes on Instagram: "Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (12 July 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

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