What is the name of the Soviet sniper and World War II hero who had has sight restored by Vladimir Filatov?
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Vladimir Filatov Vladimir Petrovich Filatov (Russian: Владимир Филaтoв , 15 [O.S. 27] February 1875, Mikhaylovka, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire - 30 October 1956, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) was a Russian and Ukrainian ophthalmologist and surgeon best known for his development of tissue therapy. He introduced the tube flap grafting method, corneal transplantation and preservation of grafts from cadaver eyes. He founded the Institute of Eye Diseases & Tissue Therapy in Odessa, Soviet Union (today Ukraine). Filatov is also credited for restoring Vasily Zaytsev's sight when he suffered an injury to his eyes from a mortar attack during Battle of Stalingrad.
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Vasily Zaytsev Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev; 23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. Prior to 10 November, he killed 32 Axis soldiers with a standard-issue rifle. Between 10 November 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers, including 11 snipers.
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Sergei Solnechnikov Sergei Alexandrovich Solnechnikov (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Солнечников , 19 August 1980 – 28 March 2012) was a Russian military officer, who at the cost of his own life saved his subordinates covering a grenade. He was honored as a Hero of the Russian Federation, posthumously.
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Idris Suleymanov Idris Hasan oglu Suleymanov (Azerbaijani: İdris Həsən oğlu Süleymanov; 12 February 1915 – 29 July 1986) was an Azerbaijani Red Army Lieutenant and Hero of the Soviet Union. During the Battle of the Caucasus near Mozdok in November 1942, he led the 1st Rifle Platoon of the 1st Separate Rifle Battalion in the 43rd Separate Rifle Brigade. He reportedly launched a counterattack and was wounded in the eye and leg but did not leave the front line. Suleymanov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 13 December 1942. He retired postwar and worked at the local social security department.
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Nikolai Gulayev Nikolay Dmitriyevich Gulayev (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Гулаев ) (1918–1985) was an aviation commander of the Soviet Army and ace during the Great Patriotic War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union and recipient of several other awards.
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Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (Russian: Николай Иванович Кузнецов ) (July 27, 1911–March 9, 1944) was a semi-legendary Soviet intelligence agent and partisan who operated in Nazi-occupied Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) during World War II who personally killed six high-ranking German officials. His file is still not fully disclosed and will be held until 2025 in the FSB archives. It was not until 1990 that Kuznetsov was officially recognized as a NKVD agent. He used several pseudonyms during his intelligence operations: e.g. Rudolf Schmidt, Nikolai Vasilevitsh Grachev (Николай Васильевич Грачёв) and Oberleutnant Paul Siebert. Kuznetsov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Mariya Bayda Mariya Karpovna Bayda (Russian: Мария Карповна Байда ; February 1, 1922 – August 30, 2002) was a World War II scout in the Crimea. When she was surrounded by Wehrmacht submachine gunners, she fought a heated gun battle against them, killing fifteen, wounding several more, and routing the rest, escaping wounded. For her wartime exploits, Bayda was awarded the honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Viktor Leonov Viktor Nikolayevich Leonov (Russian: "Виктор Николаевич Леонов") (21 November , 1916 in Zaraysk – October 7, 2003 in Moscow) was a Soviet sailor, two-time Hero of the Soviet Union. Viktor Leonov helped lay the foundation for modern day Russian Spetsnaz operations.
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Ivan Papanin Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin (Russian: Иван Дмитриевич Папанин , 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 – January 30, 1986) was a Soviet polar explorer, scientist, Counter Admiral, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded nine Orders of Lenin.
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Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard, later Hesketh-Prichard (17 November 1876 – 14 June 1922) was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War. Concerned not only with improving the quality of marksmanship, the measures he introduced to counter the threat of German snipers were credited by a contemporary with saving the lives of over 3,500 Allied soldiers.
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Georgy Morozov Georgy Andrianovich Morozov (Russian: Георгий Андрианович Морозов; 24 April 1923 – 29 April 1971) was a Red Army sergeant and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Morozov was awarded the title for reportedly killing 50 German soldiers during the Battle of the Dnieper and capturing a machine gun. Postwar, he was an overseer at an engineering plant in his home of Elektrostal.
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Kuznetsov Mikhail Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Кузнецо́в ) (1913-1989) was an aviation commander of the Soviet Army and ace during the Great Patriotic War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union and recipient of several other awards.
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Vasilij Kvachantiradze Vasil Kvachantiradze (Georgian: ვასილ შალვას ძე კვაჭანტირაძე Russian: Квачантирадзе, Василий Шалвович (Kvachantiradze, Vasily Shalvovich)); January 1907 – February 9, 1950) was a top Soviet sniper during World War II. He entered Red Army service in 1941 and is credited with confirmed kills numbering at least 215 officers and soldiers of the German Wehrmacht during the Vitebsk-Orsha Offensive, and around 534 confirmed kills total during Operation Bagration or during the war.
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Pavel Batov Pavel Ivanovich Batov (Russian: Павел Иванович Батов ; June 1 [O.S. May 20] 1897 – April 19, 1985) was a senior Red Army general during the Second World War and afterwards, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Batov fought in World War I, where he was awarded the Cross of St. George twice. After being wounded in 1917, he was sent to a school in Petrograd and joined the Bolsheviks. He fought in the Russian Civil War and became an adviser with the XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, Batov commanded the 51st Army in the Crimea. In 1942 he became the commander of the 3rd Army and then the 4th Tank Army, which was renamed the 65th Army. Postwar, Batov commanded the Carpathian Military District.
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Franz Perkhorovich Franz Iosifovich Perkhorovich (Russian: Франц Иосифович Перхорович ; 27 May 1894 – 11 October 1961) was a Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
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Ivan Boyko Ivan Nikiforovich Boyko (Russian: Иван Никифорович Бойко ) (1910-1975) was a colonel of Tank Troops of the Soviet Army. During the Great Patriotic War he was twice Hero of the Soviet Union and recipient of several other awards.
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Anatoly Lebed Anatoly Vyacheslavovich Lebed (Russian: Анатолий Вячеславович Лебедь ; 10 May 1963 – 27 April 2012), was a Hero of the Russian Federation, Guards Lieutenant Colonel in Special Airborne Forces, and an officer of the 45th Guards Spetsnaz Regiment.
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Vasily Reshetnikov Vasily Vasiliyevich Reshetnikov (Russian: Василий Васильевич Решетников ) (born December 23, 1919) was a Soviet pilot during World War II. Reshetnikov flew 307 missions mainly as a pilot for a long-range bomber and in the summer of 1943, received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After World War II concluded he was named commander of Air Division, Air Corps. Reshetnikov was subsequently promoted to Colonel General and took command of Long-range Air Forces from 1969 to 1980 and was made Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force of the Soviet Union from 1980 to 1986.
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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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Israfil Mammadov Israfil Maharram oglu Mamedov (or Mammadov, Azerbaijani: "İsrafil Məhərrəm oğlu Məmmədov" , Azeri Cyrillic: Исрафил Məhəррəм oғлу Мəммəдов, Russian: Исрафил Магеррам оглы Мамедов; 30 May 1919 – 5 May 1946) was an Azeri Red Army lieutenant and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was the assistant commander of a platoon of the Soviet 42nd Rifle Regiment during World War II. He was the first Azerbaijani to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, on 11 December 1941. Mamedov was awarded the title for reportedly killing 70 German soldiers and three officers.
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Viktor Zholudev Viktor Grigoryevich Zholudev (Russian: Виктор Григорьевич Жолудев; 22 March 1905 – 21 July 1944) was a Red Army major general and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Zholudev fought in the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict, the Battle of Lake Khasan in 1938 and the 1939 Battles of Khalkhin Gol, as well as World War II. Zholudev commanded the 37th Guards Rifle Division during its defense of the Stalingrad tractor factory during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Nikolai Biryukov Nikolai Ivanovich Biryukov (6 December 1901, Knyazhaya Baygora, Tambov Governorate – 22 June 1980, Russian: Николай Иванович Бирюков) was a Soviet Army soldier and officer. He fought in the Russian Civil War and in World War II, where he attained the rank of lieutenant general, and was decorated Hero of the Soviet Union.