Battle for Sevastopol is a 2015 biographical war film, about which Ukrainian Red Army Soviet sniper during World War II?
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Battle for Sevastopol Battle for Sevastopol (Ukrainian: "Незламна" "Indestructible"; Russian: "Битва за Севастополь" ) is a 2015 biographical war film about Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a young Soviet Ukrainian who joined the Red Army to fight the Nazi invasion of the USSR and became one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The film, a joint Ukrainian-Russian production, was released in both countries on April 2, 2015; its international premiere took place two weeks later at the Beijing International Film Festival.
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko Liudmyla Mykhailovna Pavlychenko (Ukrainian: Людмила Михайлівна Павличенко , Russian: Людмила Михайловна Павличенко ; July 12, 1916October 10, 1974) was a Ukrainian Red Army Soviet sniper during World War II. Credited with 309 kills, she is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history.
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Fedir Dyachenko Fedir Trofymovych Dyachenko (; (June 16, 1917 - August 8, 1995), was a Ukrainian Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with as many as 423 (425) kills. He was born in the village of Velyki Krynky, now part of Hlobyne Raion of Poltava Oblast.
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Battle of Petrikowka The Battle of Petrikowka (present-day Petrykivka, Ukraine) took place between 27 and 30 September 1941, during World War II. Fought between Italian and Soviet forces, it was the first significant engagement involving the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia.
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Georgy Drozd Georgy Ivanovich Drozd (Ukrainian: Георгій Іванович Дрозд ; 28 May 1941, Kiev - 10 June 2015, Kiev) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor, member of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine. People's Artist of Ukraine (1999).
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Ilya Kaverin Ilya Ananevich Kaverin (Russian: Илья Ананьевич Каверин; 15 May 1910 – 19 November 1963) was a Red Army senior sergeant and Hero of the Soviet Union. Kaverin was awarded the title for reportedly resisting German troops from his burned-out tank during the Battle of Kiev in 1943. He reportedly killed 30 German soldiers. After the war Kaverin was demobilized and returned to his native Astara.
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Yevhen Konovalets Yevhen Konovalets (Ukrainian:Євген Олексійович Коновалець) (June 14, 1891 – May 23, 1938) was a military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. He is best known as the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists between 1929 and 1938.
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Vladimir Fedorovich Vladimirov Vladimir Fedorovich Vladimirov (Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Владимиров; 9 July 1914 – December 1943) was a Red Army Lieutenant during World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin for his actions during the Battle of the Dnieper. Vladimirov was killed in action during December 1943.
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Babi Yar Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр , Babyn Yar; Russian: Бабий Яр , Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.
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Shakir Geniatullin Shakir Nigmatulinovich Geniatullin (Russian: Шакир Нигматулинович Гениатуллин ; 1895 - 1946) was a Soviet military officer and Red Army major-general during World War II.
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Panfilov's 28 Men Panfilov's 28 Men (Russian: 28 панфиловцев , translit. "28 panfilovtsev") is a 2016 war film based on a Soviet propaganda legend about a group of soldiers – Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen – heroically halting and destroying Nazi tanks headed for Moscow before all perishing together on the battlefield. It is set in the Eastern Front of World War II and covers the 8th Guards Rifle Division operations during the 1941 Battle of Moscow.
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Nicholas Minue Nicholas Minue (March 13, 1905 – April 28, 1943) was a Ukrainian American and United States Army career veteran who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II. Private Minue with fixed bayonet, singlehandedly assaulted and destroyed several enemy positions while under fire near Medjez El Bab, Tunisia, until he was fatally wounded.
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Viktor Leselidze Viktor Nikolaevich Leselidze (Russian: Виктор Николаевич Леселидзе , Georgian: ვიქტორ ლესელიძე , Viktor Leselidze) (January 7, 1907 – June 28, 1944), was a Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union who distinguished himself during a fatal yet successful melee assault against Finnish forces at the Svir River in World War II. He was also the brother of Col.General Konstantin Leselidze who died in the same year.
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Defence of Sevastopol Defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, or Воскресший Севастополь ) is a 1911 historical war film about the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War and one of the most important films in the history of Russian cinema and cinema in general. It was the first feature film made in the Russian Empire and it premiered on October 26 at the Livadia Palace of Tsar Nicolas II. It was also the first film in the world recorded using two cameras. The film was also notable for using special "sound effects" (gun and canon fire) and for using the actual war veterans as consultants.
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Victory Day over Nazism in World War II Victory Day over Nazism in World War II (Ukrainian: День перемоги над нацизмом у Другій світовій війні ) or Victory Day (Ukrainian: День перемоги ) is a national holiday and a day off in Ukraine. It was first celebrated on 9 May 2015 and follows the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation on May 8 (which pays tribute to the victims of World War II and was also first celebrated in 2015). The holiday replaced the Soviet "Victory Day", which was celebrated in the post-Soviet Union states, including Ukraine, until 2014 inclusive.
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Isaac Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаа́к Эммануи́лович Ба́бель ; ] ; 13 July [O.S. 1 July] 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of "Red Cavalry", "Story of My Dovecote", and "Tales of Odessa", all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry". Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge as a result of his long-term affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of 15 May 1939. After confessing under interrogation to being a Trotskyist terrorist and foreign spy, he was shot on 27 January 1940.
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Robert Brichenok Robert Ivanovich Brichenok (Russian: Роберт Иванович Бриченок Belarusian: Роберт Іванавіч Брычонак 17 January – 5 February 1972) was a Soviet artillery lieutenant general. He took part in World War I, Russian Civil war, Winter war and World War II.
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NKVD prisoner massacres The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions carried out by the Soviet NKVD secret police during World War II against political prisoners across Eastern Europe, primarily Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic states, Bessarabia and other parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was retreating following the Nazi German attack on the Soviet positions in occupied Poland, known as Operation Barbarossa.
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Hunan Avetisyan Hunan Avetisyan (Armenian: Հունան Ավետիսյան , Russian: Уна́н Мкрти́чович Аветися́н ; 20 July 1913 – 16 September 1943) was a Soviet Red Army senior sergeant from the 89th Rifle Division who sacrificed his life by covering the embrasure of a German machine gun pillbox with his body so that his fellow soldiers could keep moving against the enemy in the Novorossiysk-Taman Operation of the Battle of the Caucasus. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin in recognition of his sacrifice by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in May 1944.
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Simon Ostrovsky Simon Ostrovsky (Russian: Симо́н Остро́вский ; born February 2, 1981) is a Soviet-born American documentary filmmaker and journalist at CNN best known for his coverage of the 2014 crisis in Ukraine for VICE News and Selfie Soldiers, a 2015 documentary in which he re-enacted a Russian soldier's social media posts to track him to Ukraine. He was briefly held hostage by pro-Russia militants there in April 2014. Ostrovsky won an Emmy Award in 2013 for his work with VICE.
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Odessa Bolshevik Uprising The Odessa Bolshevik Uprising (Ukrainian: "Одеське січневе збройне повстання" ) was a Bolshevik-led uprising of workers and sailors allied with approaching Red Guards forces of Soviet Russia.
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Shchors (film) Shchors (Russian: Щopc ) is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin, the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors. Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov (1912–2006).