Sharpshooter

Snipers are on picket duty

Sniper Lisa Mironova, 19 years old

Soviet snipers on the Leningrad front. December, 1941.

Anatoly Chekhov, a famous sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad in Pavlov's house , a native of Kazan

T.P. Brodskaya was a cadet at the Central Women's Sniper School. She received numerous awards including medals such as "For Courage," "For Liberation of Belarus," "For Labor Valor," the Zhukov Medal, the Order of the Patriotic War Second Class, and the Order of the Red Star.

Sniper Maria Lelkhova of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak Infantry Brigade of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak infantry battalion, 1943. Photo by Alexander Arhipov/TASS

Soldiers and commanders of a Separate Sniper Company of the 3rd Shock Army

In one small village of Sychevka, Nikiforovskiy District, Tambov Region, in 1923, the future hero - the boy Peter was born. His childhood was difficult, poverty, hunger. From an early age, he helped his father, had to earn money himself to feed his family. At the age of 7, he went to school, and at 15 he left school and went to study in the Saratov Region. He never returned home. He was caught by the Great Patriotic War. Seventeen year old Peter Sychev began his military service as a soldier of the Bryansk Proletarian Rifle Division from the Oryol Region. On September 23, 1941, a regiment #1104 was formed within the division in the city of Michurinsk. The regiment entered the battle on the near approaches to Moscow and on December 1, 1941, with the heroic efforts of soldiers and officers, stopped the enemy. In December 1941, the regiment liberated the cities of Solnechnogorsk and Volokolamsk. Further and further from Moscow they pushed German occupiers. They reached the Smolensk Region with heavy losses. Peter Sychev was a sniper in the Soviet Army. While serving in a sniper company, he killed 38 German soldiers and officers with well-aimed shots from his sniper rifle, including 6 officers and 3 enemy snipers. Only for the period from August 1943, the sniper Sychev destroyed 24 Germans. In the defense near the village of Novoe Selo, Vitebsk Region, when the 331 Red Banner Smolensk Rifle Division, in which Sychev served, was fighting for liberation, Peter found a German sniper. He hunted him for two days without leaving his position. Having outwitted the German, our hero destroyed him with the first shot and on the same day, December 24, 1943, destroyed another German. A month later, he told about this in a letter to his family. Sniper private Peter Sychev was awarded the government award the Order of the Red Banner. On December 26, 1943, the award found its hero. From the hands of the guard commander, First Lieutenant Sokolov, Peter received the long-awaited Order. In the fighting, he was repeatedly wounded. But fate gave him a chance again and again. He fought, liberating the territory after territory, demonstrating the dedication and bravery of the highest will-power and virility. The years went by. Our soldiers kept fighting. Not often, but he wrote to his family. After a long absence of letters, they received a letter from his friend of Peter. In it, he wrote about the last moments of P. Sychev life. "After a short halt, back to the battle. He crawls on the ground, I shout at him: "Go right!" But he doesn't seem to hear and crawls to the left. Explosion!" A Soviet soldier died heroically on June 25, 1944. It was in the village of Teolin, Dubrovskiy District, Vitebsk Region. Pursuing the retreating enemy, the regiment broke through the enemy defense in the Vitebsk Region and successively captured Babichi, Teolin, Chizhovka, Pugacheva. By order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Marshal of the Soviet Union, comrade Stalin, gratitude was declared for breaking through the enemy's defenses. Hero Peter Sychev remained forever on a foreign land, in a mass grave in which 350 soldiers as brave and courageous as he were buried.

Rank: Chief Petty Officer, Starshina _x000D_ SubDivision: 179th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division _x000D_ He was born in 1906 in the village of Taldyki (Ukrainian Taldiki), Kiev province. He lived in the village of Burlin, Ural region. He worked as a salesman in a general store, then as a baker. He was arrested on October 29, 1929 by the Ural OGPU, convicted by the OGPU troika on January 3, 1930 under Articles 58-7, 58-8, 58-10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code to exile for 3 years. _x000D_ He was rehabilitated on June 10, 1989 by the WKO prosecutor's office by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated January 16, 1989. _x000D_ He had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since July 25, 1941. He fought in 234th and 259th Rifle Regiments of 179th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division. He mastered the sniper business. He often went out on a "hunt" together with the legendary sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union, Kvachantiradze Vasily Shalvovich. _x000D_ On August 11, 1942 he was wounded. On April 18, 1943, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, Kalinin Front) Corporal KD Smolensky was presented by the unit command to the first award for the destruction of 82 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ By order No. 40 of May 11, 1943, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for 43rd Army. On October 18, 1944, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 1st Baltic Front) Senior Sergeant K. D. Smolensky was presented by the unit command to a new award for distinction in combats for the Misa station on September 18, 1944. _x000D_ By the Order No. 54 of October 27, 1944 of the 179th Infantry Division he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. On December 13, 1944, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Vitebsk Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 1st Baltic Front) Senior Sergeant KD Smolensky was presented by the unit command to the Order of Lenin for the destruction of 404 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ By order No. 3 of January 14, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree for 43rd Army. He ended the war with the rank of starshina, destroying 414 fascists and becoming one of the best snipers of the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he worked as a metalworker at the machine-building plant, in the city of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR. He raised two daughters and two sons, one of whom was an adopted orphan who lost his parents during the war. He helped to raise grandchildren. He died on November 25, 1971. He was buried in Bishkek, at the "Old Cemetery", near the «Leather Factory».

Mavlyutov Sharafaddin Khalyafeddinovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 02/23/1921 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/04/1963 _x000D_ _x000D_ Mavlyutov Sharafeddin Khalyafeddinovich was born on February 23, 1921 in the village of Karaguzino of the Kubeliatsky volost of the Verkhneuralsky district of the Orenburg province (now it is the territory of the Karaguzinsky village council of the Sarktash region), Orenburg region. He was drafted into the Red Army on October 4, 1940 by the Gavrilov Military Commissariat of the Chkalovsk (Orenburg) region. _x000D_ He became a Shooter-sniper, served in 165th Rifle Regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR to protect especially important industrial enterprises. He was part of all 900 days of the Leningrad Siege. _x000D_ He was awarded with medals: "For Military Merit" (Order No. 0602 / n December 28, 1942). Description of the feat: “Acting in the combat formations of the 10th and 92nd RKKA rifle divisions on the Karelian Isthmus as a sniper-fighter, he showed courage and courage. Exterminated 32 Hitlerites "; - "For Courage" (Order No. 01800 / n October 18, 1943). Description of the feat: “Acting in the combat of the Red Army on the Leningrad front as a sniper-fighter, he showed courage. Exterminated 71 Nazis "); "For Defense of Leningrad" (Order No. 12239 August 15, 1943); - "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (order No. 0128360 March 2, 1946). _x000D_ From 1945 to 1946, Sergeant Mavlyutov Sharafaddin Khalyafeddinovich is listed as a weapons master of machine-gun armament of the rear department. In 1946 he left for the service at 3rd naval school, in the city of Oranienbaum (information on service at the naval school is still in search). After completing his service and demobilization, he graduated from the Kuvandyk Veterinary School on November 1, 1949, with a certificate of qualification of a Junior Veterinary Feldsher. Family after the war: wife - Mavlyutova Khobizhzhamal Iskhakovna, first son - Mavlyutov Rauf Sharafaddinovich, second son - Mavlyutov Gilmaddin Sharafeddinovich, third son - Mavlyutov Mudarris Sharafaddinovich, fourth son - Mavlyutov Sharafadinovich Sharafaddinovich._x000D_ The date of the tragic death of a war veteran, (he was hit at the workplace by a tractor) is May 4, 1963.

Rimsky Vasiliy Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ In September 1941, he was called up by the Skopinsky district military Commissariat to the Red Army. Since October of the same year on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He fought on the Leningrad and 2nd Belorussian fronts. He began his military career in the engineering and technical part, building pillboxes, bunkers and other structures on the defensive line near Leningrad. In one of the battles, the battalion commander was wounded, and Rimsky, himself wounded, took the commander to a safe place. In March 1942, he was sent to study at a sniper school. After a few months of study, he returned to the front near Leningrad. In the winter, in one of the heavy battles, carrying a wounded company commander from the battlefield, he was wounded in the leg. Member of the CPSU / CPSU since 1943. Later he fought as a medical instructor of the 340th rifle regiment of the 46th rifle division. On June 14, 1944, during the assault on a fortified area 8 km West of the city of Terioka, senior Sergeant Rimsky provided first aid to the soldiers for many hours under continuous enemy fire, and carried 25 seriously wounded from the battlefield. By order of July 6, 1944, senior Sergeant Vasiliy Rimsky was awarded the order of Glory of the 3rd degree. On January 15, 1945, during the battle for the city of Pultusk, senior Sergeant Rimsky carried 36 wounded soldiers and officers from the battlefield and provided them with first aid. At the same time, he destroyed 3 opponents with automatic fire. He was presented for the award of the order of Glory of the 2nd degree. On January 26, 1945, during the fighting at the crossing of the Sona river South of the city of Tsekhanow, Sergeant Rimsky took out 27 wounded soldiers and officers under heavy enemy fire, after which he supervised the evacuation of them. By order of February 3, 1945, senior Sergeant Vasiliy Rimsky was awarded the order of Glory of the 2nd degree. By order of February 27, 1945, senior Sergeant Vasiliy Rimsky was awarded the order of Glory of the 2-nd degree. In 1945, petty officer Rimsky was demobilized. Return home. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on September 23, 1969, Vasiliy Rimsky was awarded the order of Glory of the 1-st degree. Became a full knight of the order of Glory.

Volosnikov Vasily Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Volosnikov Vasily Ivanovich, came to the battlefields when he was 26 years old. But the war broke out and the first to defend the Motherland were called young and healthy men. They were sent to Poltava. He was a sniper in 169 SD (2SB 680 SP-169 SD) under the command of major General V. V. Tsyganov. In one of the bloody battles, they were ordered to take fire on themselves to allow the 5th company to break out of the encirclement.The order was carried out,but only three people survived, and they were taken prisoner, badly wounded and bloodied, and subsequently sent to a concentration camp in southern Bavaria.The father tried to escape twice, but without success, they were brutally beaten and brought back. He stayed in a concentration camp until his release by the American army. After his release, he spent a year in the hospital, because after being tortured and beaten, he had to recover for a long time and was discharged as a disabled person. But when he returned home, where his young wife and little daughter were waiting for him,he found the strength to work and restore the destroyed economy, and gave birth to seven more children with his mother, and raised all of them and put them on their feet, and lived a long decent life. Volosnikov Vasily Ivanovich-years of life-28.04.1915-18.10.1996

30.06.1923 - 28.06.1997_x000D_ Unfortunately, I learned the story of my great-grandmother not from her personally, but from my grandmother._x000D_ Before the war, she worked at the Progress Factory and had a "reservation" from being drafted into the army, but at that time, almost from every family someone went to the front, and my great-grandmother did not want to be an exception. With her friends (Tasya Luzikova and Lena Baiduganova), she went to the Kemerovo Military Commissariat and they asked to be sent to the front. They were sent to the Podolsk Women's Sniper School. They took the oath on May 1, 1944, and Raisa continued her service as a Specialist in the 322nd Rifle Regiment. During her service, she was promoted to the rank of Sergeant Major. During the period of military operations, she personally destroyed 8 German soldiers, this was recorded in her personal book of a sniper-fighter of the Nazis._x000D_ My great-grandmother said very little about her service. But even at the front, a girl was still a girl. Although it was impossible to keep any diaries containing information of a military nature, she kept a Songbook that has been preserved in our family to this day. And according to some records, one can navigate in which places the great-grandmother was at one time or another (For example: "February 22, 1945 in the city of Paranga", "April 5, 1945 M. Rossitten")._x000D_ We learn about the end of the war from its last entry: "We are in the field, on the way to Lubava, but being about 20 kilometers away, we learned about the victory, as we were all happy, because this fight belonged to us, the last and decisive. The soldiers are delighted, everyone is having fun, everywhere you can hear songs, laughter, firing from all kinds of guns, in the evening a movie... Yes, what a joy for us. Here are the girls coming to me. Now memories will begin. This is the end of my writing."_x000D_ She was awarded the Medal For Bravery by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 5, 1945. She was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 11, 1985. She was awarded the Zhukov medal by order of the President of the Russian Federation of January 19, 1996,._x000D_ We still keep her army documents and photos in our house, which we review every May 9, remembering our great-grandmother.

Sniper operations in the SMO zone. A sniper from the Central Military District (CMD) during the performance of a combat mission in the Krasnolimansky direction within the special military operation zone. The sniper pair covered the actions of a special forces group during the task of capturing a Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) strongpoint.

Sniper operations in the SMO zone. Snipers from the Central Military District (CMD) during the performance of a combat mission in the Krasnolimansky direction within the special military operation zone. The sniper pair covered the actions of a special forces group during the task of capturing an AFU strongpoint.