Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko[a] (néeBelova; 12 Juli 1916 – 10 Oktober 1974) adalah seorang penembak Soviet dalam Tentara Merah pada Perang Dunia II,[1] yang dikenal karena membunuh 309 orang dengan Senjata SVT-40 Dan Mosin Nagant M1891. Ia dianggap sebagai salah satu penembak militer papan atas sepanjang masa Dan, Juga Sebagai Sniper Wanita Paling Mematikan Dalam Sejarah Atau Sniper paling mematikan dari Uni Soviet[2] dan penembak perempuan tersukses dalam sejarah.[3][4]
Valiant, Steve. Lady Death: The True Story of Russian Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. 2015. ISBN1518661203
Pavlichenko, Lyudmila (foreword by Martin Pegler). Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper. 2018. ISBN1784382701
Pennington, Reina, Higham, Robin. Amazons to fighter pilots: a biographical dictionary of military women/Vol. 1, A-Q. 2003. OCLC 773504359
Lyuba, Vinogradova. "Avenging Angels: Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps". 2017. ISBN978-1-68144-285-3 In chapter 2 (page 42) the author reports "Oleg Kaminsky, a Russian historian, undertook the first serious research into the veracity of the tales of the supersniper. He found some oddities in the stories of her earliest days on the front." On page 47 the author writes "Almost all we know about her is based on her own words, which are full of contradictions." The author reports numerous other discrepancies of the sniper's actions and roles.
