Brief biography of Pavlichenko

During the year spent on the front line, she managed to destroy enemy soldiers and officers. In her homeland, legends were composed of her, admiring Pavlichenko's heroism and fearlessness, and “Lady Death” was sternly christened abroad. Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlychenko in girlhood - Belova was born on June 29 on July 12 near Kyiv. Lyudmila married a very young, shortly before her son Rostislav was born.

Her father, Major of the NKVD, having learned about the pregnancy of a fifteen -year -old daughter, easily found a student Alexei Pavlichenko, who was around his head with a naive schoolgirl. However, the marriage was not happy. The wife, who was ten years younger than his wife, divorced quite quickly and returned to her parental house. Working at the Arsenal Kiev plant, Lyudmila raised her little son, finding the time for classes in a dash and shooting.

She showed excellent results. In the year, Pavlichenko was credited to the History Faculty of Kyiv State University. In June, Lyudmila was in Odessa, where she underwent a diploma practice. Immediately after the outbreak of World War II, Pavlichenko was eager for the front. Having passed short -term sniper courses, she became a fighter of the Chapaevsky Infantry Division of the Red Army, which was immediately sent to border battles.

Pavlichenko fought in Moldova, participated in the defense of Odessa and Sevastopol, where at the end of the year she met the younger lieutenant Leonid Kitsenko. He was also a sniper, and the couple began to be sent to tasks. But the front -line romance ended tragically. Only Kitsenko managed to submit a report to the command of the marriage with Pavlichenko, he was mortally wounded on the battlefield.

By June, Lyudmila Pavlichenko had confirmed liquidated enemy soldiers and officers, including thirty -six snipers.

Surviving in unthinkable conditions and tirelessly fighting against the fascist invaders, she managed to transfer her skills and experience to others, actively teaching new snipers. After a severe wound, the valiant sniper was evacuated from the siege of Sevastopol. When the recalled from the advanced Lyudmila restored health and strength, she was sent as part of the Soviet youth delegation on an overseas trip.

Pavlichenko Lieutenant had the opportunity to speak to the International Student Assembly in Washington, to the CIO industrial organizations in New York, as well as in Chicago, where she said the famous phrase: “Gentlemen, I am twenty-five years old. At the front, I already managed to destroy three hundred nine fascist invaders. Do not you, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind me for too long?

Later, Pavlichenko will once again meet with the American first lady, when Eleanor Roosevelt will come on an official visit to the Soviet Union. The American woman’s memoirs, where she talks about meeting Lyudmila Pavlichenko, became the basis for the film “The Battle of Sevastopol”, which was released in the year. In the image of an outstanding Soviet sniper, Russian actress Julia Pereshild appeared.

She never returned to the front. After the war, she graduated from the Kyiv State University, worked as a researcher in the Main Headquarters of the Navy. She actively worked in the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, published the books “Heroic Least”. Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko died on October 27 in Moscow, was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery of the capital.

The memory of the sniper is immortalized in the names of the streets of the White Church, where Pavlichenko was born, and Sevastopol. In honor of her, a ship launched in the year was named, then, by the sixtieth anniversary of the heroine, they released a postage brand. Persons of the day March 17: - Gotlib Daimler German engineer, designer and industrialist.