A rifle of the famous sniper Vasily Zaytsev ( popularized in Western media in the film Enemy at the Gates ) is also on display.

Vasily Zaytsev

** Vasily Zaytsev, Russian World War II hero ( b. 1915 )

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (; March 23, 1915 – December 15, 1991 ) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad.

On January 31, 2006, Vasily Zaytsev was reburied on Mamayev Kurgan in Stalingrad ( now Volgagrad ) with full military honors.

US Army News quoted Colonel Paquette: " Vasily Zaytsev is a legend and every USA sniper must memorize his tactics and methods.

* Biography of Vasily Zaytsev at WarHeroes. ru

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In 2001, Law starred as Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev in the film Enemy At The Gates, and learned ballet dancing for the film A. I.

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Sniper Vasily Zaytsev wearing an early variant of the Order of the Red Banner

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* Vasily Zaytsev – sniper who killed 225 at the Battle of Stalingrad ; his achievements are dramatized in the film Enemy at the Gates.

Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied there in 2006.

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One day, Zaytsev ’ s commanding officer called him up and pointed at an enemy soldier in a window 800 meters away.

One of Zaytsev ’ s common tactics was to cover one large area from three positions with two men at each point – a sniper and scout.

After the war, Zaytsev settled in Kiev, where he studied at a textile university before he obtained employment as engineer.

In 2001, a feature length film, Enemy at the Gates, starring Jude Law as Zaytsev, the movie was based on part of William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which includes a " sniper's duel " between Zaytsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.

Between October 1942 and January 1943, Zaytsev made an estimated 400 kills.

Zaytsev was born in Yeleninskoye and grew up in the Ural Mountains, where he learned marksmanship by hunting deer and wolf with his grandfather and younger brother.

Zaytsev served in the Soviet Navy as a clerk in Vladivostok.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Zaytsev, like many of his comrades, volunteered to be transferred to the front line.

On 22 September 1942, Zaytsev crossed the Volga River and joined the 1047th Rifle Regiment of the 284th Rifle Division of the 62nd Army, headed by General Nikolai Batyuk.

Zaytsev took aim from his standard-issue Mosin-Nagant rifle, and with one shot, the soldier was down.

Together with his partner Nikolay Kulikov, Zaytsev would hide and sting.

Zaytsev took part in the battle for Stalingrad until January 1943, when he suffered an injury to his eyes from a mortar attack.

On February 22, 1943, Zaytsev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Zaytsev himself indicates in his own memoirs that a three-day duel did indeed occur and that the sniper he killed was the head of a sniper school near Berlin.

However, by 1962, with the publication in the Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Sokolovsky's volume, Military Strategy, the Soviets laid out their officially endorsed thoughts on the matter, and their ideas on how to cope with nuclear conflict.

The case was then reviewed by Russia's Chief Military Prosecutor Office, and it was decided that Vasily Klubkov, who betrayed Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, was not eligible for rehabilitation.

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* On August 29, 1967, at 1645 hours, during a communist-led tour, Soviet citizen Vasily Matusak suddenly dashed across the Military Demarcation Line into South Korea.

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Vasily Stalin was partially rehabilitated in 1999, when the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court lifted charges of anti-Soviet propaganda that dated from 1953.

The Russians were forced to gather an enormous ransom for their prince, so that Vasily could be released some five months later.