Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya
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Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya (Russian: Нина Алексеевна Лобковская) served as a sniper for the Red Army of the Soviet Union during World War II attaining the rank of Lieutenant.
She was born the eldest of five children in Siberia. Her family moved to Tajikistan following the ill health of her father Alexei who had enlisted in the Red Army in 1942 before being killed in the battle for Voronezh in October of the same year.
Lobkovskaya was one of 300 women sent to Veshnyaki to train as snipers.
From February 1945 until the end of the war, Lobkovskaya commanded a company of female snipers who eventually participated in the push into Berlin.
See also
- Sniper
- Soviet sniper
- Mosin-Nagant, sniper rifle most commonly used by Soviet snipers during World War II.
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