aisia Maximova Soviet sniper during World War II, credited with 76 confirmed hits. She was a girl when the German army entered Leningrad. She watched the battles for Leningrad and the suffering of the Soviet people. She tried several times to join the army, but was always rejected because she was only 15 years old. In the end, she escaped from the factory where she worked and joined the snipers. With her unit, she reached Berlin at the end of World War II, but returned to Leningrad after the end