Nina Lobkovskaya
Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya | |
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| Native name | Ни́на Алексе́евна Лобко́вская |
| Born | 18 March 1925 Fyodorovka, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service/ | Infantry |
| Years of service | 1942–1945 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
| Unit | 3rd Shock Army |
| Battles/wars | Eastern Front of World War II |
| Awards |            Template:Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Template:Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"Template:Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" Template:Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"    |
Nina Alexeyevna Lobkovskaya (Russian: Ни́на Алексе́евна Лобко́вская) (born 18 March 1925) served as a sniper for the Red Army and attained the rank of Lieutenant in a separate sniper unit of the 3rd Shock Army during World War II. In the war she reached 89 confirmed kills, making her the tenth deadliest female sniper in the war.[1]
Early life
She was born the eldest of five children in Siberia. Her family moved to Stalinabad in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic 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. While the Second World War was not fought in Tajikistan itself, after the arrival of numerous refugees from the war to the Tajik SSR Lobkovskaya took the impact of the war to heart and volunteered for the military after graduating from school under the advice of the Komsomol.[2][3]
Training and service
Lobkovskaya was one of 300 women sent to Veshnyaki in Eastern Russia to train as snipers at the Central Women’s Sniper Training School. From February 1945 until the end of the war, Lobkovskaya commanded a company of female snipers who eventually saw action in the Battle of Berlin. On one night while defending a section of road the unit assisted in the capture of 27 enemy combatants. During the war she reached 89 confirmed kills of enemy combatants,[3] having fought on the Baltic and Belorussian Fronts.[4][5]
Awards and Honors
- Order of the Red Banner
- Two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st Class
- Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class
- Order of Glory 2nd Class
- Order of Glory 3rd Class
- Medal "For Courage"
- Medal "For Battle Merit"
- various campaign and jubilee medals
See also
- Soviet sniper
- Mosin–Nagant, sniper rifle most commonly used by Soviet snipers during World War II.
References
- ^ "Top WW2 Snipers". archive.li. 2016-01-01. Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Troshina, Olga (2009-02-03). "Woman Sniper". ROAD TO VICTORY [THE VOICE OF RUSSIA]. Archived from the original on 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b "Лобковская Нина Алексеевна". soviet-aces-1936-53.ru. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
- ^ "Лобковская Нина Алексеевна". airaces.narod.ru. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
- ^ "Лобковская Нина Алексеевна | Боевой путь Третьей Ударной Армии". thirdshockarmy.gym1517.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-02-13.
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