Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya was a Russian female who operated as a sniper for the Soviet Red Army during World War II. She was credited with 309 kills during the war, the same as Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The traditional definition of a sniper is an infantry soldier especially skilled in field craft and marksmanship, who kills selected enemies from concealment with a rifle at long distances. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Red Army flag The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya in Russian), the armed forces organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Lyudmila Pavlichenko. ...

See also

• Other Soviet snipers from World War II:
  • Lyudmila Pavlichenko (also female)
  • Vasily Zaitsev
  • Zikan
  • Ivan Sidorenko
  • Vasiliy Golosov