Anniversary of Lyudmila Pavlichenko On July 12, 1916, Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko was born – a legendary sniper of the Great Patriotic War and a Hero of the Soviet Union. She was a member of the VKP(b)/CPSU from 1945. She is the best female sniper in world history. She was born in the city of Bila Tserkva, #Kiev Governorate, of the #Russian Empire. Until she was 14, she studied at secondary school No. 3 in Bila Tserkva, and then the family moved to Kiev.