Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev was one of the most well-known Soviet snipers during the Second World War, with an extraordinary capability to hit during the ...
In March 1945, with victory over Nazi Germany only weeks away, Pravda praised the nearly one million Soviet women who had fought the Germans and their allies. They had ‘proved themselves as pilots, ...
Golosov was born in 1911 to a working-class Russian family in Belyov. After completing only five grades of school he worked at a drying plant before being conscripted into the Red Army. After ...