Battle for Sevastopol is a 2015 biographical war film, about which Ukrainian Red Army Soviet sniper during World War II?
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.
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.