Sniper Pavlichenko Lyudmila biography. Life is a feat! hero of the soviet union sniper major pavlichenko lyudmila mikhailovna

As a rule, every publication dedicated to Soviet snipers of the Great Patriotic War mentions the legendary female sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Well, of course - Hero of the Soviet Union! She has 309 destroyed fascist invaders! It would seem that there can be no doubt about her exploits. However, upon careful examination of her combat biography, many things will seem, to put it mildly, rather strange. However, let's start in order.

So, according to Pavlichenko’s biographical descriptions, she began to fight near Odessa on August 6 or 10, 1941 as part of the 54th Razin Rifle Regiment of the famous 25th Chapaev Rifle Division, and killed her first two enemies in the battle near Belyaevka. True, already here doubts arise about the reliability of the information, since the 54th regiment from August 6, throughout the entire month, acted as part of the battle group of Colonel Monakhov in the Eastern sector of the defense of Odessa, mainly in the Gildendorf area (where the village of Kotovsky is now located ).

It is curious that, according to some articles on the Internet, Pavlichenko fought not in a simple unit, but as part of a sniper platoon, whose commander was 23-year-old Lieutenant Vasily Kovtun. In the same platoon there was allegedly another female sniper from Odessa, Genya Golovataya, who was also “famous for her well-aimed shots.” As some sources report, one day “the Germans sent their sniper platoon against Kovtun’s platoon. Apparently, they decided to quickly deal with the Soviet riflemen. The massive duel lasted for several hours, Kovtun’s platoon lost more than half.” At the same time, our snipers, naturally, “killed” most of the “German snipers.” However, this “mass duel” raises great doubts, since only Romanian units took part in the battles near Odessa, and on the German side - only one infantry regiment and several small artillery units. In addition, neither the Germans nor the Romanians had snipers at all at that time, much less sniper units.

In general, as it was customary to say then, “the fame of our snipers thundered along the entire front,” and the most famous one, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, “who shot 187 fascists on the outskirts of Odessa,” was known not only to the defenders of the city, but also to the enemies who “ They were terribly afraid of her.” However, despite such great fame, Pavlichenko, for some reason, was not awarded for a long time, although several Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR were issued on awarding the defenders of Odessa with orders and medals.

In all Decrees, in the long lists of those awarded, there are many actual heroes of battles - commanders, pilots, artillerymen, machine gunners, anti-aircraft gunners, Red Army soldiers, Red Navy men... Let us note, however, that orders and medals were also awarded to many persons who clearly did not go into bayonet attacks and even never not holding weapons. Among them are cooks and bakers, production managers, clerks and draftsmen of headquarters, translators, propaganda instructors, executive secretaries of divisional party committees, editors and deputy editors of newspapers, typists and telephone operators, artists of front-line brigades, military lawyers and NKVD investigators (well, how could we be without them!)... However, , in this case we are of little interest in how, for example, the artist Steinberg received the Order of the Red Star, how the telephone operator Kulchitskaya and the bread delivery man Blyakher earned medals “For Military Merit,” or how and for what many others received awards. Who knows, maybe they really accomplished some feats? However, we are extremely interested in why the name of sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko is not on the list of awardees. After all, all the media claim that in the battles for Odessa, Pavlichenko destroyed as many as 187 enemy soldiers and officers! And this - in just two and a half months! No Soviet sniper had such a fantastic achievement at that time. Yes, for such a combat score, any sniper would have been nominated for the title of Hero long ago! However, we repeat, neither the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, nor any order, nor even the medal “For Military Merit”, which sometimes was awarded even for such dubious “feats” as “hardworking to the point of illness for one’s work” or “takes part in the social and political life of the unit”, Pavlichenko did not receive it then. In the Decrees on awards there is neither the name of the deceased sniper platoon commander Vasily Kovtun, nor Marchenko who replaced him, nor the “legendary” Genya Golovataya, nor anyone else from the “sniper platoon” in which Pavlichenko served. Naturally, the question arises - why? After all, some of the distinguished snipers of other units received their well-deserved awards. Thus, Red Army soldier V.F. Shapovalov and Red Navy soldier N.I. Shvaronok were awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The award documents also describe the exploits of these snipers. For example, it is said about Shapovalov that he “doesn’t throw a single cartridge without hitting the target and kills from 27 to 40 fascists every day.” So, in the battles of September 13, 1941, Shapovalov destroyed 80 enemy soldiers, and on September 15 - another 50 (although, to be honest, these figures are very doubtful! ). Apparently, Shvaronok also shot accurately: for example, on September 18 he shot 40 enemies...

The medal "For Courage" was awarded to Red Navy sniper A.P. Terin. Sniper Corporal P. M. Tutashvili was also nominated for the same medal, although for some reason he did not receive it. The sniper of the 25th division N.D. Suchkov, who, having fired 95 shots, destroyed 85 fascists, was also nominated for an award. Why, after all, did not the political instructors and commanders present the “thunderstorm of the fascists” Pavlichenko for the award? Is it because few people believed in the 187 fascist soldiers and officers she “killed”?

When leaving Odessa, on October 16, 1941, the 25th division, in which Pavlichenko served, was transferred to Crimea. Here, defending Sevastopol, Pavlichenko “killed 72 more fascists” with her sniper rifle by March 16, 1942, i.e. Pavlichenko's combat tally had already reached 260 killed enemies, including almost 30 German snipers. Incredible record! The successes of many famous Soviet snipers who have already been awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, such as I. D. Vezhlivtsev, P. I. Golichenkov, A. A. Kalinin, S. P. Loskutov, V. N. Pchelintsev, F. A Smolyachkov and others were much more modest: only 100 to 155 fascist warriors were destroyed. And Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who far surpassed all other Soviet snipers, “Symbol of the Defense of Sevastopol”, still has no awards. How so? Strange, very strange...

And only on April 24, 1942 she was given... no, not the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but... just a medal “For Military Merit”! Together with her, this medal was awarded to several other Sevastopol snipers, whose combat count did not exceed 20-30 incapacitated enemies. How so? She, the most productive of the Soviet snipers, “with whose name Soviet soldiers went into battle,” was so depersonalized and “equated” with novice shooters?!

Apparently, there were serious doubts about the veracity of Pavlichenko’s combat account, for example, regarding her success in the fight against enemy snipers. And, by the way, she herself involuntarily confirms this with one of her statements: “...German snipers taught me a lot, and their science was beneficial. Sometimes they would catch me and pin me to the ground. Well, I shout: “Machine gunners, save me!” And until they fire a couple of bursts from a machine gun, I cannot get out of the fire. And the bullets are whistling above my ear all the time and land literally next to me, but not at me.

What did I learn from the German snipers? They taught me, first of all, how to put a helmet on a stick so that you could think that it was a person. I used to do this: I see a Fritz standing there. “Well,” I think, “mine!” I shoot, but it turns out I only hit the helmet. It even got to the point where she fired several shots and still didn’t realize that it wasn’t a person. Sometimes I even lost all self-control. And while you’re shooting, they discover you and start giving a “concert.” Here we had to be patient. They also set up mannequins; standing just like a living Fritz, you also open fire. There were cases here that not only snipers, but also artillerymen were subjected to this.”

Well, as they say, no comments. In fairness, it should be noted that the number of “enemy soldiers and officers destroyed” by other Sevastopol snipers was also highly doubtful. The declared successes of snipers amazed every imagination, reaching 100 or more per day (a record number - “173 shot fascists” - was counted to snipers on May 2). And, for example, in April 1942, the snipers of Sevastopol were credited with 1,492 fascists killed by them. However, in reality, the German 11th Army lost only 458 people killed and 50 missing, as well as 1,865 wounded in the entire Crimea this month. Let us note, by the way, that enemy troops suffered losses mainly from artillery and mortar fire, and losses from snipers, according to statistics, amounted to no more than 5-10 percent...

In addition to describing Pavlichenko’s combat activities, we will also mention some very important facts in the life of a female sniper: her wounds, concussions and other cases of “temporary incapacity for combat.” So, she received her first concussion at the very beginning of her time at the front, in August 1941, during an air raid. Fortunately, the concussion was minor and Pavlichenko remained in the regiment. The second concussion from a shell explosion, around August 10-11, turned out to be more serious with partial hearing loss, and Pavlichenko ended up in the Odessa hospital for three weeks. And Pavlichenko received her first wound in the head (the shrapnel went tangentially) in a battle near the village of Tatarka on October 12, 1941, after which she ended up in the medical battalion of the 25th Infantry Division. Together with the medical battalion, Pavlichenko was evacuated to Crimea on the motor ship “Jean Zhores”. After treatment, she returned to the regiment only on November 9, 1941, that is, she did not take part in battles for almost a month. Pavlichenko received a second, more serious wound and concussion near the Mekenzia farmstead near Sevastopol, approximately on December 19, 1941. Then a shell fragment hit her in the right shoulder near the shoulder blade and another sniper, 36-year-old junior lieutenant Alexei Kitsenko, who later became her front-line husband, pulled her out of the battlefield. This serious injury cost Pavlichenko at least another month in the hospital. But for the longest period of time she was incapacitated by the death of her beloved, whose arm was torn off by a shrapnel before Pavlichenko’s eyes, after which he died on March 4, 1942. The nervous shock experienced by Pavlichenko was so strong that her hands began to tremble, and there could be no talk of using her as a sniper. Taking all this into account, the command sent Pavlichenko on a long leave to improve her health, where she remained until the very end of May 1942, that is, she was not on the front line for three months. She received a third wound and another concussion on June 16, 1942, when she was at the headquarters of the 54th regiment, which was targeted by German heavy artillery. At the same time, a shell fragment cut Pavlichenko’s right cheek on the cheekbone and tore off his right earlobe. Once again in the medical battalion, she, along with other wounded, was taken on June 19 on the L-4 submarine from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk. Pavlichenko never had the chance to go to the front again.

It is not difficult to calculate that out of the eleven months of service as a sniper Pavlichenko, she spent almost half of them not in sniper ambushes, but in a hospital bed. In addition, let’s not forget that Pavlichenko was a woman and, like any other woman, was out of action for several days every month, as they say, for purely “female reasons.” It turns out that she destroyed three hundred enemy soldiers and officers in just 5 - 6 months. How such a fantastic result could be achieved in such an extremely short period of time cannot be explained by any sane person even slightly knowledgeable in military affairs.

In total, as we see, Pavlichenko was wounded three times and shell-shocked four times, that is, she repeatedly “shed blood for the Motherland.” But even for this, none of the male commanders, for some reason, considered it necessary to present Pavlichenko, at that time another of the rare female snipers, for a worthy reward.

The defense of Sevastopol ended in a huge disaster for the city’s defenders: almost one hundred thousand people were killed or captured. This tragedy became a huge moral shock for the entire Soviet people. In order to somehow smooth out the unpleasant impression of defeat, all the media of that time began to talk about the “massive and unprecedented heroism of the defenders of Sevastopol,” which inflicted “enormous losses on the Nazi troops.”

It should be noted here that by that time, not only in the Sevastopol area, but also on the entire Soviet-German front, the Red Army had suffered catastrophically huge losses in manpower and, naturally, was in dire need of replenishment. However, there were no longer enough men, so it was decided to recruit women into the army en masse. The country needed heroines whose exploits would inspire Soviet women to voluntarily join the ranks of the Active Army. The image of the martyr Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya had already faded considerably by that time. In addition, her burning of stables and residential buildings (with all the ensuing consequences for civilians and unfortunate horses!), from the point of view of universal morality, was, to put it mildly, not very attractive. We needed the names of new heroines. It was then that they finally remembered the “thunderstorm of the fascists” and, two weeks after the fall of Sevastopol, on July 16, 1942, Senior Sergeant Pavlichenko was awarded the Order of Lenin.

Let us recall that at that time Pavlichenko had 309 enemies “shot” by her, and, as we calculated, in less than six months! Let us especially emphasize that none of the Soviet snipers had such effectiveness, neither before nor after Pavlichenko. Why wasn’t she given the Hero’s Gold Star for this phenomenal record? After all, they awarded another Sevastopol sniper, Sergeant Major N.P. Adamiya, the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, although he had about 200 fascists in his combat record? By the way, Adamia not only shot accurately, but also trained more than 80 soldiers in sniper work. And for some reason, the platoon commander, senior sergeant Pavlichenko, never taught any of her subordinates the art of a sniper. Another Sevastopol sniper, Corporal I. I. Bogatyr, had only about 75 enemies, however, he also received the title of Hero. What about Pavlichenko?! Apparently, the command believed that she had not yet “earned” the Gold Star. However, the career of the “best Soviet sniper” was just beginning...

Already being treated in a hospital in Novorossiysk, she received a sudden call to Moscow, to the GPU of the Red Army. The Main Political Directorate, having far-reaching propaganda plans, began to actively “work” with the newly minted candidate for heroine. Soon, after appropriate processing, Pavlichenko was sent to England, the USA and Canada as a member of the “people's embassy” in August 1942, where she began to publicly shame our allies for not wanting to open a second front. It is curious that Pavlichenko, like another member of the delegation, also our famous sniper Hero of the Soviet Union V.N. Pchelintsev (by that time he had 144 killed Germans) was constantly asked to show his skill in shooting. And, if Pchelintsev willingly demonstrated his skill, Pavlichenko always stubbornly refused to shoot. Of course, one could attribute this to female coquetry, but, most likely, Pavlichenko was terrified of simply “missing the mark”...

It is interesting that Western reporters, greedy for the sensational headlines of their articles, called Pavlichenko nothing more than “Miss Colt”, “Lady Death”, “Bolshevik Valkyrie” and endowed her with other loud epithets. Already in our time, after the release of the pretentious film “Unbroken” (“Battle for Sevastopol”), our writers and journalists, no less susceptible to exalted headlines, began to call Pavlichenko nothing more than “The Woman Who Changed the Course of History.” Apparently, out of great intelligence, they believe that if Pavlichenko had not made her crowning speech in America about the gentlemen hiding behind her back, then the second front in Europe would never have opened. In general, in their opinion, it turns out that it was not such leaders as Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and Churchill who changed the course of history, but a simple senior sergeant...

Soviet political leaders were satisfied with Pavlichenko's almost year-long tour of the Allied countries as an agitator. First, on June 3, 1943, she was awarded the rank of lieutenant, and soon after returning from abroad, by a separate Order to the troops of the North Caucasus Front dated October 23, 1943 (almost a year and a half after the end of the battles for Sevastopol!), she was finally , awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (“Golden Star” No. 1218). Then, on May 15, 1944, another promotion in rank followed and Pavlichenko became a senior lieutenant. In general, the career was made and Pavlichenko’s reputation as the best sniper among women was firmly established...

Perhaps the oddities in Pavlichenko’s combat biography are an exception? Well, let’s remember that, as they write on the Internet, along with Pavlichenko, the 25th Chapaev Division included sniper Genya Golovataya, as they say, “originally from Odessa.” Now Genya Solomonovna (Samoilovna) under the surname Peretyatko lives in the United States of America. It is very interesting what they write about her on many Internet sites: “...Having gone to the front at the age of 18 as a professional sniper and taking part in fierce battles, Genya made an invaluable contribution to the victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany. During the war years, she destroyed one and a half hundred reptiles. Recipient of many orders. Now she is one of the most honored veterans of the Great Patriotic War in the Russian-speaking community of New York.” Although, we note, there are absolutely no documentary details about her combat activities in the battles for Odessa. And, most importantly, despite the 148 “bastards she killed,” which Genya likes to talk about in her numerous interviews, there are no award documents for the “holder of many orders” either. Apparently, this is why, as one of her fellow tribesmen in Brighton Beach writes, “at the end of the 70s, Genya Peretyatko left a not very grateful country” and moved to the States for permanent residence. She was probably offended that there were no award documents for her...

Many Internet sites also mention the mysterious female sniper Libo Rugo or Lyuba Rugova. Who is she, where did she come from, where did she fight, in what units? Nothing is known! There is only scanty information that she was only 20 years old, and she “destroyed” neither more nor less - 242 or as many as 275 fascists! However, it is in vain to look for her name among the Heroes of the Soviet Union, among those awarded orders or at least medals. And in numerous literature devoted to the events of the Great Patriotic War, a sniper with that name is also not mentioned. And all because this is an obvious myth, or someone’s outright lie.

No less mysterious are the female snipers Ekaterina Zhdanova and Tari Vutchinnik, who have exactly 155 “killed” each. As with Libo Rugo, there is absolutely no other information about them. So where did they come from? It turns out that these names were named by a certain Hasso G. Stakhov in his book “Tragedy on the Neva. An eyewitness account", published in Munich in 2001. Is it possible to believe the opus of this “eyewitness” “Herr Hasso G. Stakhov”, especially considering that among the thousands of books about the war published in our country, these names are not mentioned anywhere and, of course, no award documents for these female snipers either No?

We must honestly admit that serious doubts are raised not only by the successes of some famous female snipers, but also by male snipers. For example, the successes of the most successful Soviet sniper Mikhail Ilyich Surkov, who accounted for as many as 702 (!) killed fascists, but who, for some reason, was never awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. But this is a topic for a separate study...

Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (nee Belova). Born on July 12, 1916 in Bila Tserkva (now Kiev region) - died on October 27, 1974 in Moscow. Legendary Soviet sniper. Destroyed 309 German soldiers and officers. The most successful female sniper in world history. Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).

Lyudmila Belova, known as Lyudmila Pavlichenko, was born on July 12, 1916 in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Vasilkovsky district, Kiev province (now Kiev region).

Father - Mikhail Belov, employee, later NKVD officer.

The mother was of noble origin, was a highly educated woman, instilled in her daughter a love of knowledge, and taught her foreign languages.

Until the age of 14 she studied at secondary school No. 3 in the city of Bila Tserkva. Then her father was transferred to serve in Kyiv.

After finishing the ninth grade, she worked as a grinder at the Arsenal plant in Kiev and at the same time studied in the tenth grade, completing her secondary education.

In 1937 she entered the history department of the Kyiv State University named after T.G. Shevchenko. During my studies I was involved in gliding and shooting sports.

She demonstrated outstanding results in shooting. According to some experts, Lyudmila had a special structure of the eyeball. In addition, she had excellent hearing and excellent intuition. A good memory also helped her - she memorized ballistic tables and accurately calculated the distance to an object, adjusted for wind.

When the Great Patriotic War began, she was in Odessa for graduate practice. From the very first days of the war, Lyudmila Pavlichenko volunteered to go to the front.

To ensure her ability to wield a weapon, during a sniper course she was given an impromptu test near a hill defended by Soviet soldiers. Lyudmila was handed a gun and pointed to two Romanians who were working with the Germans.

“When I shot them both, I was finally accepted,” she said. Pavlichenko did not include these two shots in her list of winning shots - according to her, they were just test shots.

Private Pavlichenko was enlisted in the 25th Infantry Division named after Vasily Chapaev.

On her first day at the front, she came face to face with the enemy. Paralyzed by fear, she was unable to lift the rifle, she said. Next to her was a young soldier whose life was instantly taken by a German bullet. Lyudmila was shocked, the shock prompted her to action. "He was a beautiful, happy boy who was killed right in front of my eyes. Now nothing could stop me," she said.

As part of the Chapaev division, it participated in defensive battles in Moldova and southern Ukraine. She was assigned to a sniper platoon.

In mid-October 1941, the troops of the Primorsky Army were forced to leave Odessa and evacuate to Crimea to strengthen the defense of the city of Sevastopol, the naval base of the Black Sea Fleet. Lyudmila Pavlichenko spent 250 days and nights in heavy and heroic battles near Sevastopol.

During the first months of the war and the defense of Odessa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko destroyed 179 German and Romanian soldiers and officers. By June 1942, Pavlichenko already had 309 confirmed killed enemy soldiers and officers, including 36 enemy snipers. In addition, during the period of defensive battles, she was able to train many snipers, passing on her experience to the front-line soldiers.

In his autobiographical book "Heroic story" Lyudmila Pavlichenko wrote: “Hatred teaches me a lot. It taught me to kill enemies. I am a sniper. Near Odessa and Sevastopol, I destroyed 309 fascists with a sniper rifle. Hatred sharpened my vision and hearing, made me cunning and dexterous; hatred taught me to disguise myself and deceive the enemy , in time to unravel his various tricks and tricks; hatred taught me to patiently hunt for enemy snipers for several days. Nothing can quench the thirst for revenge. As long as at least one invader walks on our land, I will mercilessly beat the enemy. When I went to fight, I first felt only anger for the fact that the Germans violated our peaceful life. But everything that I saw later gave me a feeling of such unquenchable hatred that it is difficult to express it with anything other than a bullet in the heart of a Nazi. When I walked through the streets Sevastopol, kids often stopped me and asked: “How many did you kill yesterday?”

Weapons of Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Mosin rifle (now kept in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow); Tokarev-40 self-loading rifle.

Lyudmila's achievements surpassed several dozen male snipers of World War II. However, for a woman, her results were simply fantastic, especially considering that she spent only a year at the front, after which she was wounded, was evacuated from Sevastopol and never returned to the front, training other snipers.

In June 1942 she was seriously wounded. She was evacuated from besieged Sevastopol to the Caucasus, and then completely recalled from the front line and sent along with a delegation of Soviet youth to Canada and the United States of America.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the USA (newsreel)

During her visit overseas, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, together with the secretary of the Moscow city committee of the Komsomol Nikolai Krasavchenko and sniper Vladimir Pchelintsev, attended a reception with the President of the United States.

At the invitation of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, members of the Soviet delegation lived for some time in the White House. Later, Eleanor Roosevelt organized a tour of the country for Soviet representatives.

Lieutenant Pavlichenko made a speech before the International Student Assembly in Washington, before the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in New York, but many remembered her words spoken in Chicago: “Gentlemen, I am twenty-five years old. At the front, I have already managed to destroy three hundred and nine "Fascist invaders. Don't you think, gentlemen, that you've been hiding behind my back for too long?" After these words, as reporters described, the crowd froze for a minute and then exploded into a frenzied noise of approval.

From another American speech by Pavlichenko: “I want to tell you that we will win! That there is no force that could interfere with the victorious march of the free peoples of the world! We must unite! As a Russian soldier, I offer you, the great soldiers of America, my hand.” .

In the USA she was given a Colt pistol, in Canada - a Winchester rifle (the latter is exhibited in the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Moscow).

In Canada, the Soviet military delegation was welcomed by several thousand Canadians gathered at Union Station Toronto.

Her photo was published by all the leading media outlets in America, and she appeared on the cover of Life magazine.

American country singer Woody Guthrie wrote a song about her “Miss Pavlichenko”, in which the words sounded:

Miss Pavlichenko is well known to all of us,
Russia is your country, and fighting is a craft,
The whole world will love you forever and ever
For those three hundred Nazis who fell before you.

In the mountains and hollows, quiet as a doe,
In the spreading forests, knowing no fear.
The sight rose - the Fritz fell to the ground,
Three hundred Nazis fell before you...

After returning from a trip abroad, Lieutenant Pavlichenko served as an instructor at the Vystrel sniper school near Moscow.

After the end of the war, Lyudmila Mikhailovna defended her diploma at Kiev University and became a senior researcher at the General Staff of the USSR Navy. In 1956, she went to work for the public organization “Soviet Committee of War Veterans.”

In 1957, she met Eleanor Roosevelt for the second time, during the latter’s visit to the USSR.

She died on October 27, 1974 in Moscow. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery, her mother Elena Belova, her husband and son were buried next to her.

At school No. 3 in Bila Tserkva there is a museum of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, created during the Soviet era.

Streets in the cities of Sevastopol and Belaya Tserkov are named in honor of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (secondary school No. 3, where Lyudmila Mikhailovna studied, is located on this street in Belaya Tserkov).

A ship of the Ministry of Fisheries was named after Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The ship was launched in 1976 and decommissioned in 1996.

Sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Lyudmila Pavlichenko's height: 156 centimeters.

Personal life of Lyudmila Pavlichenko:

She was married three times.

First husband - Alexey Pavlichenko. She met him at the age of fifteen, when she was in the eighth grade and lived with her parents in Bila Tserkva. Their meeting took place at a dance; he was a student at the Agricultural Institute, much older than her. Lyudmila fell in love and soon became pregnant. Lyuda's father, NKVD officer Mikhail Belov, found Alexei and forced him to marry.

In 1932, Lyudmila gave birth to a son, Rostislav (1932-2007).

However, family life did not work out; the husband turned out to be a dishonest person. According to the stories of those who knew Lyudmila, she hated the father of her child so much that she did not even want to say his name. I was going to get rid of the Pavlichenko surname, but the war prevented me from filing for divorce.

Second husband - Alexey Kitsenko. They met before the war in Kyiv. He was her partner at the front. At the front, they submitted a report on marriage registration.

But their happiness was short-lived: in February 1942, Alexey was mortally wounded by shrapnel from an exploding shell during an artillery attack. As Lyudmila said, he essentially saved her life: Alexey was sitting with his hand on her shoulders and when a shell exploded next to them, he got all the fragments and received seven wounds. One fragment almost cut off Alexei’s hand - the one that lay on Lyudmila’s shoulder. If he hadn’t hugged her, the fragment would have broken Lyudmila’s spine.

For Lyudmila, Kitsenko's death was a heavy blow; for some time she could not even shoot - her hands were shaking.

Third husband - Konstantin Andreevich Shevelev (1906-1963).

Son, Rostislav Pavlichenko, died at the age of 76 from a stroke.

Granddaughter - Alena Rostislavovna, lives in Greece with two children and is a member of the Union of Artists of Greece.

The widow of Pavlichenko’s son is Lyubov Davydovna Krasheninnikova, a retired major of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko with her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter

About her grandmother, her granddaughter Alena recalled: “Grandmother loved children very much and never punished me. We lived in perfect harmony. Just look at her deep and tender gaze! Despite the fact that I was a rather nimble child, she always told me everything. forgave. If I did something wrong, she raised her eyebrow and looked carefully into her eyes. It became clear that it was impossible to do this - this was the worst punishment! She was always busy with something - on the road. I still can’t imagine how "She survived all the horror of the war! At home we never talked about the war, and she didn’t want to talk about it either. It’s scary. Nevertheless, after everything, she managed to maintain tenderness, femininity and humanity."

During her last visit to Russia, Alena almost went to prison. The fact is that she wanted to take her grandmother’s relics with her to Greece - a dagger and a small revolver. But when her luggage was checked at Sheremetyevo, she was detained and accused of illegally transporting weapons. After some time, an examination was carried out, which showed that the dagger and revolver were of cultural value. A criminal case was opened against Alena under the article “Smuggling,” and she faced 7 years in prison.

Alena regretted: “I really didn’t think that these things needed to be documented. Moreover, they were taken away from me. After a while I started looking for them, but there was no trace of them.”

The image of Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the cinema:

In 2015, a Russian-Ukrainian film was released "Battle for Sevastopol"(ukr. "Unbreakable") directed by Sergei Mokritsky, dedicated to the life story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The role of Lyudmila Pavlichenko in the film was played by a Russian actress. The release of the film on movie screens was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The plot of the film is based on real events. In addition to colorful battle scenes, much attention in the plot is paid to the emotional experiences of the heroes, and the love line occupies a prominent place.

It is worth noting that Pavlyuchenko’s relatives were critical of the film and the actress who played the famous sniper.

In particular, Lyudmila Pavlichenko’s granddaughter Alena Rostislavovna said about Peresild: “The actress, of course, does not look like a grandmother. Yulia showed her as very silent and cold. Lyudmila Mikhailovna was bright and temperamental. It is clear that it is difficult for an actress to play her.”

The widow of Pavlichenko’s son, Lyubov Davydovna Krasheninnikova, also stated that Yulia Peresild is not like her legendary mother-in-law: “Lyudmila Mikhailovna was a sniper, but this does not mean that in life she was stern and reserved. On the contrary, she was a kind-hearted person. And the actress showed Pavlichenko as silent and the same everywhere.”

The Lyudmila-D rifle in the computer game Destiny and the Lyuda sniper rifle in the computer game Borderlands 2 are named after Lyudmila Pavlichenko.

Also, in honor of Lyudmila Mikhailovna, the main character of the second season of the 2009 anime series “Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini” bears the surname Pavlichenko.

Born on July 1, 1916 in the village of Belaya Tserkov, now a city in the Kyiv region, in the family of an employee. After graduating from school, she worked for 5 years at the Arsenal plant in Kyiv. Then she graduated from 4 courses at Kyiv State University. While still a student, she graduated from sniper school.

In July 1941, Lyuda Pavlichenko volunteered for the army. She fought first near Odessa, and then near Sevastopol.

By July 1942, the sniper of the 2nd company of the 54th Infantry Regiment (25th Infantry Division, Primorsky Army, North Caucasus Front) Lieutenant L. M. Pavlichenko destroyed 309 enemy soldiers and officers with a sniper rifle, including 36 snipers.

On October 25, 1943, for courage and military valor shown in battles with enemies, she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1943, Coast Guard Major Lyudmila Pavlichenko completed the Shot course. She no longer took part in hostilities.

In 1945 she graduated from Kiev State University. In 1945 - 1953 she was a research fellow at the General Staff of the Navy. She participated in many international congresses and conferences and did a lot of work in the Soviet War Veterans Committee. Author of the book "Heroic Reality". She died on October 27, 1974. She was buried in Moscow.

Awarded orders: Lenin (twice), medals. The name of the Heroine is given to a vessel of the Marine River Economy.

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In fighting Sevastopol, the name of the sniper of the 25th Chapaev Division, Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko, was well known. Her enemies also knew her, with whom Sergeant Pavlichenko had his own scores to settle. She was born in the city of Belaya Tserkov, Kyiv region. After graduating from school, she worked for several years at the Kiev Arsenal plant, then entered the history department of Kyiv State University. As a student, she mastered the skill of a sniper at a special school at Osoaviakhim.

She came from Kyiv to Odessa to complete her thesis here on Bogdan Khmelnitsky. She worked in the city scientific library. But the war broke out and Luda volunteered for the army.

The future most successful female sniper received her first baptism of fire near Odessa. Here, in one of the battles, the platoon commander was killed. Lyudmila took command. She rushed to the machine gun, but an enemy shell exploded nearby, and she was shell-shocked. However, Lyudmila did not go to the hospital, she remained in the ranks of the city’s defenders, and boldly defeated the enemy.

In October 1941, the Primorsky Army was transferred to Crimea. For 250 days and nights, in cooperation with the Black Sea Fleet, she heroically fought with superior enemy forces and defended Sevastopol.

Every day at 3 o'clock in the morning Lyudmila Pavlichenko usually went out into ambush. She either lay for hours on the wet, damp ground, or hid from the sun so that the enemy would not see. It often happened that in order to shoot for sure, she had to wait a day, or even two.

But the girl, a courageous warrior, knew how to do it. She knew how to endure, knew how to shoot accurately, knew how to camouflage herself, and studied the habits of the enemy. And the number of fascists destroyed by her grew all the time...

The sniper movement developed widely in Sevastopol. Marksmanship specialists were assigned to all parts of the SOR (Sevastopol Defensive Region). With their fire they destroyed many fascist soldiers and officers.

On March 16, 1942, a rally of snipers was held. Vice Admiral Oktyabrsky and General Petrov spoke at it. The report was made by the Chief of Staff of the Army, General - Major Vorobev. Present at this meeting were: member of the Military Council of the Fleet, divisional commissar I. I. Azarov and member of the Military Council of the Primorsky Army, brigade commissar M. G. Kuznetsov.

Snipers, well known in Sevastopol, made heated speeches. Among them was Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko, who had 187 exterminated fascists in Odessa and already 72 in Sevastopol. She pledged to bring the number of killed enemies to 300. The famous sniper Noah Adamia, sergeant of the 7th Marine Brigade, and many also spoke other. They all took obligations to destroy as many fascist invaders as possible and help train new snipers.

The Nazis suffered heavy losses from sniper fire. In April 1942, 1,492 enemies were destroyed, and in just 10 days of May - 1,019.

One day in the spring of 1942, on one of the sectors of the front, a German sniper caused a lot of trouble. It was not possible to eliminate him. Then the command of the unit instructed Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who by that time was already a recognized shooter, to destroy him. Lyudmila established: the enemy sniper acts like this: he crawls out of the trench and approaches, then hits the target and retreats. Pavlichenko took a position and waited. I waited for a long time, but the enemy sniper showed no signs of life. Apparently, he noticed that he was being watched and decided not to rush.

In the evening, Pavlichenko ordered her observer. leave The night has passed. The German was silent. When dawn broke, he began to approach cautiously. She raised the rifle and saw his eyes in the scope. Shot. The enemy fell down dead. She crawled towards him. It was written in his personal book that he was a high-class sniper and during the battles in the west he destroyed about 500 French soldiers and officers.

“A historian by education, a warrior by mentality, she fights with all the fervor of her young heart” - this is what the Krasny Chernomorets newspaper wrote about her on May 3, 1942.

One day Lyudmila entered into single combat with 5 German machine gunners. Only one managed to escape. Another time, a brave girl - warrior and sniper Leonid Kitsenko was tasked with getting to the German command post and destroying the officers there. Having suffered losses, the enemies fired mortars at the area where the snipers were located. But Lyudmila and Leonid, having changed their position, continued to fire accurately. The enemy was forced to abandon his command post.

While snipers were performing combat missions, the most unexpected incidents often happened. Lyudmila Pavlichenko spoke about one of them:

One day, 5 snipers went on a night ambush. We passed the enemy's front line and camouflaged ourselves in the bushes near the road. In 2 days we managed to exterminate 130 fascist soldiers and 10 officers. The angry Nazis sent a company of machine gunners against us. One platoon began to go around the height on the right, and the other on the left. But we quickly changed our position. The Nazis, not understanding what was going on, began shooting at each other, and the snipers safely returned to their unit.

In the fall of 1942, a delegation of Soviet youth consisting of the Secretary of the Komsomol Committee N. Krasavchenko, L. Pavlichenko and V. Pchelintsev, at the invitation of youth organizations, went to the USA and then to England. At that time, the Allies were greatly concerned about the need to conduct not only military training, but also the spiritual mobilization of youth. The trip was intended to further this goal. At the same time, it was important to establish connections with various foreign youth organizations.

The Soviet people were greeted with extraordinary enthusiasm. Everywhere they were invited to rallies and meetings. Newspapers wrote about our snipers on the front pages. There was a stream of letters and telegrams addressed to the delegation. In the United States, Pavlichenko met with the president's wife. Eleanor Roosevelt was very attentive to Lyudmila.

Both in the USA and in England, the trip of the delegation of Soviet youth received a very big response. For the first time during the war years, the British met representatives of the youth of the fighting Soviet people. Our envoys carried out their high mission with dignity. The speeches of the delegates were full of confidence in victory over fascism. The people who raised such young people cannot be defeated - was the unanimous opinion of the British...

Lyudmila Mikhailovna was distinguished not only by her high sniper skill, but also by her heroism and dedication. She not only destroyed hated enemies herself, but also taught other warriors the art of sniper. She was injured. Her combat score - 309 destroyed enemy soldiers and officers - is the best result among female snipers.

In 1943, the brave girl was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (the only one among female snipers awarded this title during her lifetime. Others were awarded posthumously).

And so Pavlichenko arrived in Moscow from Sevastopol, straight from the firing position. She was dressed in military style: a tunic tied with a belt, a skirt, and boots on her feet.

War changes people's psychology. Love for the Motherland leads a person to conscious self-denial in the name of victory. The most difficult art of a sniper, it would seem, is not a woman’s job at all. But the Kyiv University student became a threat to enemies in Sevastopol.

Lyudmila talked about the battles calmly, without drama. She recalled in detail how she chose the most convenient firing positions - those from which the enemy could least expect fire. And the story turned out as if it was led by a born warrior, and not by yesterday’s student. It was noticeable that she was tired, and at the same time it seemed unusual and strange for her to suddenly leave Sevastopol. It was felt that Lyudmila felt awkward in front of the comrades whom she left behind; they continued to live amid the roar of explosions and the flames of fires.

In Moscow, Pavlichenko often had to perform, although she did not particularly like this activity. We always listened to her with bated breath. She once told this story:

When I walked along the streets of Sevastopol, children often stopped me and asked: “How many did you kill yesterday?”

I reported to them in detail. One day I had to honestly say that I had not fired at enemies for several days.

He said it right, this little Sevastopol resident. From the hour when the fascist robbers burst into our country, every day I lived was filled with one thought - to defeat the enemy.

When I went to fight, at first I felt only anger that the Germans had violated our peaceful life. But everything that I saw later gave me a feeling of such unquenchable hatred that it is difficult to express it with anything other than a bullet in the heart of a Hitlerite.

In a village recaptured from the enemy, I saw the corpse of a 13-year-old girl. She was killed by the Nazis. Scoundrels - this is how they demonstrated their ability to wield a bayonet! I saw brains on the wall of the house, and next to it was the corpse of a 3-year-old child. The Germans lived in this house. The child was capricious and crying. He interfered with the rest of these animals. They didn't even allow the mother to bury her child. The poor woman has gone crazy.

I saw a teacher who was shot. Her body lay at the side of the road along which the Krauts were running away from us. The officer wanted to rape her. A proud Russian woman chose death over shame. She hit the fascist pig in the face. The officer shot her, then violated the corpse.

They do not disdain anything, German soldiers and officers. Everything human is alien to them. There is no word in our language that would define their vile essence. What can you say about the German in whose bag I saw a doll and a toy watch taken from our child? Can you really call him a man, a warrior? No! This is a mad jackal that must be destroyed to save our children.

There are still many fighters among us who fiercely hate the Krauts, but they have not yet fully mastered the fighting technique and their weapons. This is inactive hatred. It contributes nothing to our cause of struggle for the independence of the Motherland. Destroy the fascist! Then the people will tell you: you really hate the enemy. If you don't know how to destroy enemies yet, learn. This is now your sacred duty to the Motherland, mother, wife and children.

Hate teaches you a lot. She taught me how to kill my enemies. I'm a sniper. Near Odessa and Sevastopol, I destroyed 309 fascists with a sniper rifle. Hatred sharpened my vision and hearing, made me cunning and dexterous; hatred taught me to disguise myself and deceive the enemy, to unravel his various tricks and tricks in time; hatred taught me to patiently hunt for enemy snipers for several days. Nothing can quench the thirst for revenge. As long as at least one invader walks on our land, I will mercilessly beat the enemy.

In everyday life, Lyudmila was simple and did not boast of her merits. The Museum of the Armed Forces has an exhibition dedicated to Lyudmila Pavlichenko. There are gifts for the famous female sniper: a rifle, an optical sight and much more. But the most touching gift is an ordinary slingshot from the children.

How I “hunted” in Sevastopol.

"...In Sevastopol, I came back to my unit. Then I was wounded in the head. I was always wounded only by fragments of long-range shells, everything else somehow passed me by. But the Krauts sometimes gave such “concerts” to snipers that pure horror. As soon as they detect sniper fire, they begin to sculpt you, and so they sculpt you for three hours straight. There is only one thing left: lie down, be silent and do not move. Either they will kill you, or you have to wait until they shoot back.

The German snipers also taught me a lot, and their science was beneficial. It used to be that they would catch me and pin me to the ground. Well, I shout: “Machine gunners, save me!” And until they fire a couple of bursts from a machine gun, I cannot get out of the fire. And the bullets are constantly whistling above your ear and landing literally next to you, but not at me.

What did I learn from the German snipers? They taught me, first of all, how to put a helmet on a stick so that you could think that it was a person. I used to do this: I see a Fritz standing there. “Well,” I think, “mine!” I shoot, but it turns out I only hit the helmet. It even got to the point where she fired several shots and still didn’t realize that it wasn’t a person. Sometimes I even lost all self-control. And while you are shooting, they will discover you and begin to give a “concert”. Here we had to be patient. They also set up mannequins; standing just like a living Fritz, you also open fire. There were cases here that this was carried out not only by snipers, but also by artillerymen.

Snipers have different techniques. I usually lie in front of the front line, or under a bush, or tear off a trench. I have several firing points. I am at one point for no more than two or three days. I always have an observer with me who looks through binoculars, gives me directions, and keeps an eye on the dead. Intelligence checks the dead. Lying in one place for 18 hours is quite a difficult task, and you cannot move, and therefore there are simply critical moments. You need hellish patience here. During the ambush, they took with them dry rations, water, sometimes soda, sometimes chocolate, but in general snipers were not allowed chocolate...

My first rifle was destroyed near Odessa, the second - near Sevastopol. In general, I had one so-called exit rifle, and my working rifle was an ordinary three-line rifle. I had good binoculars.

Our day went like this: no later than 4 o’clock in the morning you go to the battlefield and sit there until the evening. I call my firing position combat. If not to the battlefield, then they went behind enemy lines, but then they left no later than 3 o’clock in the morning. It also happened that you would lie there all day, but not kill a single Kraut. And if you lie like this for 3 days and still don’t kill a single person, then probably no one will talk to you later, because you are literally furious.

I must say that if I didn’t have the physical skills and training, I wouldn’t be able to lie in an ambush for 18 hours. I felt this especially at first; as they say, “a bad head gives no rest to your feet.” I got into such trouble that I had to lie down and wait until either the Krauts stopped shooting or the machine gunners came to the rescue. And it happens that the machine gunners are far away, because you won’t shout to them: “Help me out!”

Near Sevastopol, the Germans complained loudly about our snipers, they knew many of our snipers by name, and often said: “Hey, come over to us!” And then they said: “Damn you! You’ll disappear anyway.”

But there was not a single case of snipers surrendering. There were cases that at critical moments snipers killed themselves, but did not surrender to the Germans..."

iov75 in the post True stories from women about the war .
In 1916, in the town of Belaya Tserkov in Ukraine, a beautiful girl Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko was born. A little later, her family moved to Kyiv. After finishing the ninth grade, Lyudmila worked as a grinder at the Arsenal plant and at the same time studied in the tenth grade, completing her secondary education.
In 1937 she entered the history department of Kyiv State University. As a student, like many others then, she was involved in gliding and shooting sports. The Great Patriotic War found Lyudmila in Odessa during graduate practice. From the very first days of the war, Lyudmila Pavlichenko volunteered to go to the front.
Lieutenant Pavlichenko fought in the 25th Chapaevskaya Rifle Division. She took part in battles in Moldova, in the defense of Odessa and Sevastopol. By June 1942, Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko had already killed 309 German soldiers and officers. In a year! For example, Matthias Hetzenauer, who was probably the most productive German sniper of World War II during the four years of the war - 345.
In June 1942 Lyudmila was wounded. Having barely recovered, she was sent with a delegation to Canada and the United States. During the trip, she received a reception from the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt. Many people then remembered her performance in Chicago. " Gentlemen, - a ringing voice rang out over the crowd of thousands of people gathered. — I am twenty five years old. At the front, I had already managed to destroy three hundred and nine fascist invaders. Don't you think, gentlemen, that you've been hiding behind my back for too long??!” The crowd froze for a minute, and then exploded into a frenzied roar of approval...
After returning, Major Pavlichenko served as an instructor at the Vystrel sniper school. On October 25, 1943, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war in 1945, Lyudmila Mikhailovna graduated from Kiev University. From 1945 to 1953 she was a research fellow at the General Staff of the Navy. Later she worked in the Soviet War Veterans Committee. She died on October 27, 1974 in Moscow. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.
Take a look at her beautiful face.

For myself, I long ago realized why in difficult situations women are often tougher and more desperate than men. Since ancient times, men have competed in one way or another: hunting, tournaments... And also since ancient times, if a woman had to take up a weapon, it means there are no longer any living male defenders left at the entrance to the cave or at the gate of the castle. Historically and from the point of view of nature, a woman is the last line of defense, she has only children and decrepit old people behind her, and there is no one to help her. This is the attitude we fight with if we suddenly have to fight. It cannot be otherwise, it is against our nature.

Now trolls and those close to them will come running, claiming that a woman’s place is “kinder, kirchen, kuchen.” I’ll tell them all at once, so that I can only ban them later: “Who are you to tell us our place? You don’t have to answer me, answer yourself.”

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is a Russian tennis player, winner of many international competitions held under the auspices of the WTA and ITF. She repeatedly won junior Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles. As a member of the Russian national team, she reached the final of the Fed Cup.

Biography of the athlete

Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Sergeevna was born in July 1991 in Samara. In the family of the future tennis player, almost everyone was involved in different sports at one time or another. Her grandmother played professional basketball, her mother competed in various swimming competitions, and her father competed in rowing. The Pavlyuchenkov family instilled this love of sports in their children.

Nastya first stepped on a tennis court at the age of 6. Her mother became her first coach, then her older brother Alexander worked with her.

Junior career

The Russian tennis player made her debut at international competitions in 2004. At the tournament in Poland, she immediately managed to make it to the semifinals, forcing many experts to talk about herself as a very promising athlete.

The first successes came to the young tennis player at the age of 14. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, paired with Yulia Solonitskaya, won the ITF tournament, which was held in St. Petersburg.

A year later, the athlete became the best in singles at competitions in Casale Monferrato, Italy. Also, in a duet with Evgenia Rodina, Anastasia won the tournament in Podolsk. Thanks to these victories, Pavlyuchenkova became the first racket of the world among juniors.

Professional career

In 2007, when it became clear to everyone that the young Russian woman had a bright future in tennis, her family decided to take a very serious step. In order for Anastasia to train more productively, her parents sold their car and moved to a more modest apartment. With the money they raised, they were able to pay for their daughter’s accommodation and studies in France, where the famous mentor Patrick Mutorgla became her coach.

And the results were not long in coming. This year, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, for whom tennis has become almost the meaning of her whole life, won the doubles title at the ITF tournaments in Les Contamines-Montjoie, Minsk and Poitiers. It is noteworthy that all these competitions took place on hard surfaces, which became the “crown” for the Russian athlete.

This year Anastasia made her debut at the Grand Slam tournaments. On the Wimbledon courts she managed to qualify, but stopped at the first round stage.

2008 started very well for Anastasia. Within two weeks, she won the doubles at three ITF tournaments - in Vsevolozhsk, Moscow and the Belgian Torhout. A month later, in a duet with Romanian tennis player Sorana Crastei, she won for the first time a competition held under the auspices of the WTA, which took place in Fez, Morocco.

At four more ITF tournaments, Pavlyuchenkova triumphed in singles. In addition to competitions on carpet in Minsk, she became the best on hard court in Moscow, Poitiers and Bratislava.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova performed relatively successfully at the Grand Slam tournaments this year. On courts in France and the USA she made it to the second round, and at Wimbledon to the third.

Gradually gaining invaluable sports experience in various competitions, Anastasia improved her skills every year. In 2010, she won the singles title for the first time at the WTA tournament in Monterrey, and then repeated her achievement in Istanbul.

2011 brought new achievements to the 20-year-old Russian athlete. In January, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova won the doubles title at a tournament in Brisbane, and in March she was again the best singles player in Monterrey. On the courts of Roland Garros and the US Open, she managed to make it to the 1/4 finals.

Thanks to Pavlyuchenkova’s good results, Anastasia, whose ranking in the list of the best tennis players on the planet was at a record thirteenth mark, was invited to the national team to participate in the Fed Cup. Here Russia reached the final, where it lost to the Czech Republic.

In 2013, Pavlyuchenkova began training under the guidance of former legendary tennis player Martina Hingis. In January, Anastasia won the doubles tournament in Brisbane, then won again in Monterrey. In May, the athlete became the best singles skater at a competition in Oeiras, Portugal, and in September, in a duet with Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, she triumphed in Seoul.

At the Universiade in Kazan, the tennis player won a gold medal in doubles and a silver medal in the team event. In the Fed Cup, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, as part of the Russian national team, again reached the final, where she was defeated by Italy.

Performances at Grand Slam tournaments were also successful this year. In doubles, she reached the quarter finals in Australia and France.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova continues to delight her fans with her excellent play and victories at prestigious tournaments. 2017 began on a positive note for her - she won the doubles competition in Sydney.

Life outside of tennis

Despite a busy schedule of training and performances, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova finds time to have fun. She likes to attend football matches and go to the cinema. She can also often be seen at various fashion shows.