What is Vasily Zaytsev?
{{Infobox Military Person |name= Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev |born= {{birth date|1915|3|23}} |died= {{death date and age|1991|12|15|1915|3|23}} |placeofbirth= [[Yeleninskoye]], [[Russian Empire]] |placeofdeath= [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]] |image= Vasili Záitsev.jpg |caption= |nickname= |allegiance=[[Soviet Union]] |serviceyears= 1942 — 1943 |rank= [[Captain]] |commands= |unit= |battles= [[Eastern Front (World War II)|Great Patriotic War]] * [[Battle of Stalingrad]] |awards= [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] <br /> [[Order of Lenin]] <br /> [[Order of the Red Banner]]<br /> [[Order of the Patriotic War]], 1st Class <br /> [[Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad]] <br /> [[Medal For the Victory Over Germany]] |laterwork= }} [[Captain]] '''Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev''' <ref>{{lang-ru|Васи́лий Григо́рьевич За́йцев}}, {{pronounced|vʌˈsʲilʲɪj grʲɪˈgorʲjevʲɪtɕ ˈzajtsɨf}}</ref> (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[sniper]] during [[World War II]]. He is particularly notable for his activities between 10 November and 17 December 1942, during the [[Battle of Stalingrad]]. He killed 225 [[soldiers]] and officers of the [[Wehrmacht]] and other [[Axis Powers|Axis]] armies, including 11 enemy [[sniper]]s.<ref name=bioru>{{in lang|ru}}[http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=481 Biography] at the website on Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia</ref> Before the 10th November, he had already killed 32 Axis soldiers with the standard [[Mosin-Nagant]] rifle.<ref name=bioru/> Between October 1942 and January 1943, Zaytsev had made 242 verified kills,<ref name=notes>{{Cite web |url=http://www.notesofasniper.com/intro.htm |title=About Vassili Zaitsev |access-date=2008-10-18 |archive-date=2007-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070720095614/http://www.notesofasniper.com/intro.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> but the real number may be much higher;<ref name=wioru>[http://www.wio.ru/galgrnd/sniper/sniper.htm Top WW2 Snipers]</ref> some argue it might have been as many as 400.<ref name=snipercentral