Nina Alexejewna Lobkovskaya

Nina Lobkovskaya ( Russian Нина Алексеевна Лобковская born March 8, 1924 in Fjodorowka, Karagandinskaja oblast ) served as a sniper for the Red Army of the Soviet Union in World War II . She reached the rank of lieutenant .

Lobkovskaya was the oldest of five siblings. Due to her father's poor health, the family relocated to Tajikistan at an unspecified time . Her father joined the Red Army in 1942 and died that same year in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad operation . At the age of 17, Lobkovskaya was selected as one of 300 women to be trained as a sniper in Veshnyaki . This decision was based on the assessment that the sniper's position was particularly compatible with characteristics ascribed to women: patience, smaller body size and better endurance . It was also attributed to these circumstances that women would and should avoid direct physical confrontations.

From February 1945 until the end of the war, Lobkovskaya commanded a unit of snipers that were used in the Battle of Berlin . Her performance as a sniper resulted in at least 89 enemy casualties in World War II.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Biography (Russian), accessed November 12, 2015
2. ↑ La Importancia de los Francotiradores en el Ejercito soviético , documentation of the History Channel in Spanish