Ivan Sidorenko

Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko (; 12 September 1919 – 19 February 1994) was a Red Army officer and a Hero of the Soviet Union, who served during World War II. With five hundred confirmed kills, he was one of the top Soviet snipers in the war and one of the deadliest snipers in history.

Biography Born to a peasant family in Glinkovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia, Sidorenko attended ten grades of school, and later studied at the Penza Art College at Penza, south-east of Moscow. In 1939, he dropped out of college, and was conscripted into the Red Army for training at the Simferopol Military Infantry School, in the Crimean Peninsula. and used the Russian Mosin–Nagant rifle, equipped with a telescopic sight.

Post-war life After the war ended, he retired from the Red Army, and settled down in Chelyabinsk Oblast, in the Ural Mountains, where he worked as the foreman of a coal mine. In 1974, he moved to the Republic of Dagestan, in the Caucasus.

War Diary of the 1122 Rifle Regiment, page 130, 1 May 1943: