Nina Pavlovna Petrova was a Soviet sniper during the Winter War and World War II.
10 Facts About Nina Petrova
1.
2.
Nina Petrova was credited with 122 kills by the Soviet government.
3.
Nina Petrova was posthumously awarded the Order of Glory 1st class on 29 June 1945, making her one of only four women to be awarded all three classes of the award.
4.
Three years later, the family moved to Vladivostok where Nina Petrova worked as an accountant during the day and went to school at night.
5.
Later, Nina Petrova moved to Revel and found employment at a shipyard.
6.
From 1934 to 1935, Nina Petrova was the team captain of the Leningrad Military District women's ice hockey team.
7.
On 16 January 1944, in the village of Zarudiny in the Leningrad Oblast, Nina Petrova took out an enemy communications officer and another soldier.
8.
Nina Petrova's position was discovered and she managed to retreat to a different position and shot three more before it was attacked.
9.
In early August 1944, while fighting on the 3rd Baltic Front, Nina Petrova fought in a battle near the Lepassaare railway station in Estonia.
10.
Nina Petrova was killed in action on 1 May 1945, just days before the end of the war, when a mortar attack pushed her off a cliff.