WWII Red Army Soviet Sniper SEMYON NOMOKONOV 368 Kills NEW Reprint Photo

Description

WW2 World War Two
Semyon Nomokonov (1900, Trans-Baikal Region - 1973, Chita Region) - Soviet sniper.
During the Great Patriotic War, he destroyed 360 German soldiers and officers, including one major general. During the Soviet-Japanese War, he destroyed 8 soldiers and officers of the Kwantung Army. The total confirmed count is 368 enemy soldiers and officers.
Hamnigan
by nationality. (The Hamnigans are an ethnographic group of mixed origin, related to the Buryats, Evenks, Mongols. There are only a few thousand Hamnigans in the world.) Hereditary hunter. From childhood he lived in the taiga. Already at the age of 10 he was considered a real hunter. He had the nickname "The Eye of the Kite".
Member of the Great Patriotic War since November 1941.
His personal weapon was a
Mosin three-line rifle
without a telescopic sight. A sniper rifle with a telescopic sight appeared in the winter of 1942 and until the end of all hostilities.
Nomokonov hit the enemy from
300, 500 meters
, sometimes from a kilometer (1000 m). The sniper's equipment was similar to the hunting one, Semyon used a variety of ropes, laces, flyers, and mirror shards. He fought in the Valdai Heights, the Karelian Isthmus, Ukraine, Lithuania, East Prussia, and then during the Soviet-Japanese war - in Manchuria. He served in 5 fronts, 2 divisions, 6 regiments.
The number of killed enemy soldiers and officers he marked on smoking pipe, burning dots (soldiers) and crosses (officer).
The Germans gave him the nickname "
Taiga Shaman
". He was wounded eight times, suffered two concussions.
Nomokonov was repeatedly mentioned in the reports of the Sovinformburo, front-line and central newspapers reported about him.
After the war, he worked at a state farm in Buryatia. He was a popular man. Articles about his exploits were published in newspapers and even in books.
In ordinary life, Semyon was a very kind, hardworking person. Was married. He had 9 children and 30 grandchildren.
Awards
Order of Lenin 1942
Order of the Red Banner 1945
Order of the Red Star 1943
Order of the Red Star 1945
medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg"
Medal for Military Merit
medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945."
medal "For the victory over Japan"
Jubilee Medal “For Valiant Labor (For Military Valor).
Honorary title - "Honorary Soldier of the Trans-Baikal Military District" (1960)
This is a nice reproduction of an original WW2  photograph
New print on high quality Fujifilm Photo Paper (
Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper
Supreme
- Matte paper
)
produced in a Professional Fujifilm Photographic
Laboratory
Size: 103 X 153 mm (about
4"x6")
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