Photo of the Hero of the Soviet Union, a female sniper of the Red Army Lyudmila Pavlichenko

An original and very colorful picture in excellent collector's condition. The size is 53*70 mm. Signed on the back. Guarantee of authenticity.

Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (née Belova; June 29 [July 12] 1916, Belaya Tserkva, Vasilkovsky District, Kiev Province, Russian Empire — October 27, 1974, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) was a sniper of the 25th Chapaev Rifle Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Hero of the Soviet Union (1943). After the end of the Great Patriotic War, she served as an officer of the Main (in 1950-1953 — Naval General Staff of the USSR Navy with the rank of major in the Coastal Service until 1956. During the siege of Crimea in the spring of 1942, Pavlichenko served in Sevastopol, and by the time she was wounded, she had more than 300 enemy soldiers on her account. After that, she was invited by US President Franklin Roosevelt to a reception to address members of Congress. The most successful female sniper in world history is 309 enemy soldiers and officers killed. She was given the nickname "Lady Death" by American journalists. However, this nickname was used exclusively by the American and European press, since in the USSR the image was not so propagandized for the perception of a mass audience. In the USSR, she was assigned the image of an honored hero and a war veteran.