Vasily Grigorievich Zajcev was a military Soviet and sniper who fought in World War II . His first battle was Stalingrad, where between November 10 and December 17 1942 killed between 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other armies of the 'Axis , including 11 enemy snipers .. According to Vasilii Ivanovich Čujkov (62 ^ Command of the Russian army in defense of Stalingrad), the Germans in an attempt to kill him, sent to Stalingrad Major König, commander of the military school for their sharpshooters. It is said that Zajcev, after a hunt lasting several days, he saw his hunter under a sheet of iron, and killed him. The clash between the two was made in the form of fiction in the film Enemy at the Gates.
Sergeant Vasily Ivanovich Zaitcev Bajtuk division was not beautiful as Jude Law, but for the soldiers of the 62nd Army under General Cujkov was like God His exploits on the west bank of the Volga were followed as the adventures of a hero of romance. Zaitcev, "hare" in Russian, was the most famous sniper of Stalingrad, the man who alone killed more German soldiers than he could kill a piece of artillery. The soldier who trained new snipers, the "hares" to win the war to the Motherland. The shepherd from the Urals who massacred the noble German officers. Vasily Ivanovich Zaitcev is one of the heroes of what was once the Soviet Union.
was decorated for his exploits with the title:
Hero of the Soviet Union
and numerous honors:
Order of Lenin Order of the Red Flags
Order of the Patriotic War, First Class
Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad Medal for Victory over
Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945
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