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on 29 September 1942, and on 8 February 1943 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for killing a total of 216 Nazis, including 95 that he killed in the course of eleven days. For his work as a sniper he was awarded a personalized sniper rifle named after Hero of the Soviet Union
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village on 25 June 1922. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as a mechanic at the
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466:Юность мужала в боях: статьи, очерки, документы
228:He entered the Red Army in 1941 soon after the
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313:Сталинградская битва: хроника, факты, люди
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926:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
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444:"Ильин Николай Яковлевич"
366:"Ильин Николай Яковлевич"
288:"Ильин Николай Яковлевич"
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190:Nikolai Yakovlevich Ilyin
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484:Saifullin, Gani (1973).
182:Hero of the Soviet Union
62:(located in present-day
931:Soviet military snipers
234:Order of the Red Banner
198:Николай Яковлевич Ильин
42:Николай Яковлевич Ильин
789:Vasilij Kvachantiradze
487:Через реки, через горы
370:soviet-aces-1936-53.ru
292:soviet-aces-1936-53.ru
522:"Жизнь после котла".
144:Years of service
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814:Lyudmila Pavlichenko
729:Tsyrendashi Dorzhiev
546:. 1986. p. 160.
212:Ilyin was born to a
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653:Matthäus Hetzenauer
502:"Действующая армия"
473:. 1966. p. 53.
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668:Helmut Wirnsberger
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51:25 June 1922
911:1943 deaths
906:1922 births
885:Clive Hulme
878:New Zealand
859:Moisey Usik
794:Ivan Larkin
689:Noah Adamia
218:Chornukhyne
54:Chernukhino
38:Native name
900:Categories
637:Simo Häyhä
426:оп. 682524
414:Award list
398:оп. 682525
386:Award list
297:2021-11-03
274:References
216:family in
208:Early life
115:Allegiance
82:Yastrebovo
544:Voenizdat
471:Voenizdat
352:Voenizdat
254:Footnotes
155:Starshina
147:1942–1943
138:Red Army
132:Service/
646:Germany
630:Finland
586:snipers
214:Russian
194:Russian
170:†
593:Canada
430:д. 994
348:Moscow
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178:Awards
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105:Buried
92:, USSR
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