In this case, “best” means “deadliest,” as in the deadliest female sniper in history, Leytenánt (lieutenant) Lyudmila Pavlichenko. “Miss Pavlichenko, well-known to fame/Russia’s your ...

With 309 confirmed kills, and 200 more unconfirmed, Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916-1974) was probably the deadliest woman sniper in history. But before she was a sniper, she had been educated as an ...

In early 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was studying history at Kiev University, but within a year, she had become one of the best snipers of all time, credited with 309 confirmed kills, 36 of which ...