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History's Living Voices: The Past, Told by Those Who Lived It

History's Living Voices: The Past, Told by Those Who Lived It

Soviet Sniper Describes Pursuing Enemy on Eastern Front (1941) // Memoir of Yevgeni Nikolaev

History's Living Voices: The Past, Told by Those Who Lived It · Nov 12, 2026 · 28:35

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Extracts taken from:

"Red Army Sniper A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War II"
By Yevgeni Nikolaev, translated by David Foreman
30th Nov 2017, Published by Greenhill Books
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Sniper-Eastern-Greenhill-ebook/dp/B09K4Q3RW9/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Thumbnail art by Alex Stoica: http://bananaartstudio.com/

Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist

Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid

Footage taken from the film "Sniper" (1931)

Image Credits:

Leningrad Front By RIA Novosti archive, image 58228 / Vsevolod Tarasevich / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579350

Soviet Soldiers:
By RIA Novosti archive, image 308 / Boris Kudoyarov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18134125
By RIA Novosti archive, image 662767 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579493
By RIA Novosti archive, image 594949 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579499
By RIA Novosti archive, image 660791 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579536
By RIA Novosti archive, image 2675 / B. Vdovenko / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579597
By RIA Novosti archive, image 602161 / Zelma / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579657
By RIA Novosti archive, image 61150 / Alpert / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579747
By RIA Novosti archive, image 62126 / Boris Kudoyarov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579756
By RIA Novosti archive, image 44732 / Zelma / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579770
By RIA Novosti archive, image 633408 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579774

German snipers:
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-216-0417-19 / Dieck / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5410420
German motorcyle By User:Stefan Kühn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=279154​
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