Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya was a female sniper in the Red Army during World War II.
11 Facts About Nina Lobkovskaya
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Nina Lobkovskaya attained the rank of lieutenant and commanded a separate women's sniper company of the 3rd Shock Army during World War II.
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Nina Lobkovskaya was wounded twice and killed 89 people during the war.
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Nina Lobkovskaya's mother was a schoolteacher, and her father was a mining engineer.
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Nina Lobkovskaya's family moved to the Tajik SSR in the 1930s because of her father's poor health, in hopes that the warmer climate would be good for him.
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Nina Lobkovskaya completed her tenth grade of school and attended OSOAVIAKhIM sharpshooting courses before volunteering to join the Red Army, but dreamed of going to college.
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Nina Lobkovskaya's father went to the front in 1942, where he was a machine-gunner before he died in combat.
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Nina Lobkovskaya went to the frontline in mid 1943 as part of a group of 50 women snipers assigned to the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd Shock Army on the Kalinin Front.
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Nina Lobkovskaya said that it was the worst battle in her life.
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Nina Lobkovskaya fought in the battles in the Dramburg area, where a large Nazi formation tried to break out of encirclement but the women's sniper company was brought in along with other units to prevent them from leaving the encirclement.
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Nina Lobkovskaya left the army with the rank of lieutenant.