27 Facts About Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Lyudmila Pavlichenko 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.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko died of a stroke at the age of 58.

The family moved to Kiev when Lyudmila Pavlichenko was aged 14.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko's father was a Communist Party member, and had served as a regimental commissar in the Red Army, being awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In 1932, she married Alexei Lyudmila Pavlichenko, and gave birth to a son, Rostislav.

However, the marriage was dissolved, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko returned to live with her parents.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko attended night school as well as performing household chores.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko enrolled at Kiev University in 1937, where she studied history and intended to be a scholar and teacher.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was enrolled in a military-style sniping school for six months by the Red Army.

In June 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was aged 25 in her fourth year studying history at Kiev University when Nazi Germany began its invasion of the Soviet Union.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was among the first round of volunteers at the Odessa recruiting office, where she requested to join the infantry.

The registrar pushed Lyudmila Pavlichenko to be a nurse, but she refused.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was initially assigned to digging trenches and communication routes, armed with a single RGD-33 grenade due to weapons shortages.

On 8 August 1941 Lyudmila Pavlichenko experienced her debut as a wartime sniper when she killed two Nazi officers in Biliaivka at a distance of 400 metres.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was promoted to senior sergeant in August 1941, when she added 100 more kills to her official tally.

In May 1942, newly promoted Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko was cited by the Southern Army Council for killing 257 Axis soldiers.

In June 1942, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was hit in the face with shrapnel from a mortar shell.

In 1942, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was sent to Canada and the United States for a publicity visit as part of the Soviet Union's attempts to convince the other Allies of World War II to open a second front against Nazi Germany.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was later invited by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to tour the US, relating her experiences as a female soldier on the front lines.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko responded to a question about her underwear so:.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was described by the reporters as very blunt and unemotional in her responses.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko appeared before the International Student Assembly being held in Washington, DC, attended the meetings of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and made appearances and speeches in New York City and Chicago.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko visited the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, then the Alfred Herbert works and Standard Motor Factory, from where most funds had been raised.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko had inspected a factory in Birmingham earlier in the day.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was later active in the Soviet Committee of the Veterans of War.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko died from a stroke on 10 October 1974 at 58 and was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a subject of the 2015 film Battle for Sevastopol.