An innate sharpshooter, the young woman was then tasked with countering the German snipers at Sevastopol in the summer of 1941, where she learned all about endurance and restraint. Signal ...

Klaudia was partnered with her best friend Marusia Chikhvintseva who was killed by a German sniper not long after they joined the war. Klaudia gave an interview prior to her death, reprinted here ...