270:. During the battle she and several of her fellow snipers organized fire on a group of enemy soldiers retreating after being attacked by a tank platoon. During the ensuing battle they were attached by an enemy machine gunner stationed in a ruined building. Ziba and a fellow soldier snuck behind the machine gunner and shot him at point blank range. However, she soon was badly wounded by shrapnel from an explosion and her friends Nina Solovey, Fyodor Kirillov, and Yakov Kolyako carried her to a hospital. As she suffered from blood poisoning, she was taken care of by Mariya Shvernik, the wife of politician
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Communist Rifle Division. She underwent very brief training in sharpshooting, using a machine gun, and reconnaissance, and actively promoted the sniper movement. She quickly
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382:[City of my youth. Tahir Salakhov: Post-war Baku was amazing – Kubinka, the market, like from the movie "The Thief of Baghdad" earned with might and main...].
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343:О сатире Горького в период первой русской революции (On Gorky's Satire in the First Russian Revolution Period), "Литературный Азербайджан", 1955, No.12
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Qorkinin dekadentçiliyə və naturalizmə qarşı mübarizəsi (Gorky's
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399:"HER STORY: История первой женщины-снайпера Азербайджана"
185:. After the war she starred in a movie and became a
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630:"Azerbaijani women snipers: fragile, but fearless"
177:, reconnaissance scout, and radio operator in the
547:(in Russian). Азербайджанское гос. изд-во. 1988.
518:"Ганиева Зиба – Советские снайперы 1941-1945 гг"
733:Советские женщины в Великой Отечественной войне
421:"Зиба Ганиева. История женщины-легенды – ФОТО"
16:Azerbaijani Soviet sniper during World War II
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919:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
751:Qodirov, S.; Sultonov, S. (28 May 1972).
282:During the war her photo was featured in
181:who killed at least 20 enemy soldiers in
52:birthplace disputed: usually reported as
904:Women in the Russian and Soviet military
914:Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
451:"Зиба Ганиева: история женщины-легенды"
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331:. She died in Moscow in 2010.
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250:the famous Red Army parade
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152:Ziba Pasha qizi Ganiyeva
894:Soviet military snipers
160:Ziba Paşa qızı Qəniyeva
144:Order of the Red Banner
759:(in Uzbek). p. 2.
564:(in Russian). Litres.
522:soviet-aces-1936-53.ru
470:(1979), vol. 3, p. 137
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325:Candidate of Sciences
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168:Зиба Пашаевна Ганиева
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486:Verchernayaya Moskva
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853:Yelizaveta Mironova
803:Olga Bordashevskaya
284:Verchernyaya Moskva
757:Sovet O‘zbekistoni
308:Vechernyaya Moskva
268:Maryovsky District
201:father and ethnic
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223:Great Purge
199:Azerbaijani
187:philologist
172:Azerbaijani
156:Azerbaijani
873:Categories
611:azerizv.az
363:References
327:degree in
296:Rabotnitsa
193:Early life
92:Allegiance
46:1923-08-20
527:25 August
329:philology
298:in 1942.
278:Publicity
634:AzerNews
561:Снайперы
384:1news.az
351:See also
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211:Guliston
207:Shamakhi
179:Red Army
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