Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (; 12 July 191610 October 1974) was a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with 309 kills. She is regarded as one of the top military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history.
Alexander Pokryshkin
In recent years the actual number of Pokryshkin's kills seems to have become controversial. For example, Russian historian Mikhail Yurevich Vykov researched official records of victories, and downsized his tally to 46 individual and 6 shared victories. This author, together with Aleksandr Rodionov, wrote an article named "Mutnoye Nebo 1941 goda" ("The Murky Sky of 1941") stating that Pokryshkin tried to steal Rechkalov's kills during 1941. However, researcher Oleg V. Levchenko discovered passages written in official documents, in personal documents of Pokryshkin found after his death (that he kept away of his family) and in memoirs of Pokryshkin's comrades, that Pokryshkin in fact shot down 94 enemy aircraft, damaged 19 and destroyed three more on the ground. Levchenko found that no less than 15 victories scored in 1941 were not taken into account, because the documents confirming them were destroyed during the hurried withdrawal from encirclement during the Battle of Uman. This may explain the differences seen between the figures of Vykov and Levchenko.