6193 Zvezda 1/72 "world war II" Soviet snipers

Additional Information

The set includes figures of four Soviet snipers, including a sniper girl. Weapons snipers consists of sniper rifles Mosin, SVT-40 and pistol machine gun PPSH-41. The set also contains elements of the terrain, behind which snipers usually equipped their positions. In the game, the model becomes an important combat unit. Modelers will appreciate the quality and ease of Assembly.

history:

the Sniper movement in the red army traces its history back to Shot courses, TRP regulations and other activities related to initial military training in the USSR. With the beginning of the great Patriotic War snipers began to train in the army. For this purpose the best shooters of division were specially selected. 

March 20, 1942 in suburban Veshnyakov created a special school that trained snipers. Many graduates of the school became Heroes of the Soviet Union. Snipers also trained on the system of universal EDUCATION, all through this system passed about 500 thousand people.  Snipers were armed with Mosin rifles with optical sight or SVT with optical sight, these two rifles became symbols of the great Patriotic War.  

the role of snipers in the battle of Stalingrad is Invaluable. So Vasily Zaitsev destroyed 240 enemy soldiers in Stalingrad, including 11 snipers, and Lyudmila Pavlichenko voluntarily joined the army, became one of the most famous snipers, she defended Odessa and Sevastopol with the troops of the Seaside army.