For Lyudmila Pavlichenko, killing Nazis wasn't complicated. “The only feeling I have is the great satisfaction a hunter feels who has killed a beast of prey,” she once said of her job. But Pavlichenko ...

Pavlichenko attained a final kill tally of 309, making her one of the top five deadliest snipers, period. March is Women’s History Month, and accordingly, The National Interest shall honor the ...

Lyudmila Pavlichenko, history’s deadliest female sniper, is considered to be a Soviet propaganda myth by some, including some people in Russia. The divorced teenage mother from the tiny Ukrainian town ...

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 were ...

I was wiping off sweat and waiting for a walk sign halfway through a six-mile run late one night in September 2017 when I noticed an image praising a woman who’d gunned down 300 Nazis wheat-pasted to ...

Junior Lieut. Liudmila Pavlichenko, Russian Army girl sniper who killed 309 Germans, had to cancel a radio interview in Manhattan last week because a dentist pulled one of her front teeth and the ...

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a hunter. She tracked men and she killed them. And no woman was ever better at it. She’d hide under bushes in the snow. Or she’d find a burned-out building and watch in the ...

The print of a smiling woman that’s wheat-pasted to a traffic control box near City Park states, “300 Nazis Fell By Her Gun.” Who’s the “her” in the picture? After doing some research, I found out – ...