10 Deadliest Snipers of World War II

[TomSea]

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10 Deadliest Snipers of World War II

10. Stepan Vasilievich Petrenko: 422 kills

9. Vasilij Ivanovich Golosov: 422 kills

8. Fyodor Trofimovich Dyachenko: 425 kills

7. Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov: 429 kills

6. Mikhail Ivanovich Budenkov: 437 kills

5. Vladimir Nikolaevich Pchelintsev: 456 kills

4. Ivan Nikolayevich Kulbertinov: 489 kills

3. Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin: 494 kills

2. Ivan Mihailovich Sidorenko: around 500 kills

1. Simo Häyhä: 542 Kills (705 unconfirmed)
Simo Häyhä, a Finn, is the only non-Soviet soldier on this list. Nicknamed “White Death” by the troops of the Red Army — whom he tormented, dressed in his snow camouflage, during the bitterly cold Winter War of 1939-1940 — Häyhä is, according to statistics, the deadliest sniper in history.

Read more at: http://www.militaryeducation.org/10-deadliest-snipers-of-world-war-2/

3 Ukrainian names as snipers in the Red Army above,  10, 8 and 2.

Top woman sniper for the Red Army? Lyudmila Pavlichenko, another ethnic Ukrainian.  300 kills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

[GtHawk]

Maybe Lyudmila Pavlichenko would have made that list if she hadn't been wounded in combat and detailed to training female snipers.



She was wounded four times, and after taking a blast of shrapnel to the face she was pulled out of combat duty to train new snipers and engage in propaganda activities.
In less than a year of combat, she had made 309 confirmed kills, including 36 enemy snipers, making her one of the deadliest snipers in history.