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.
Maria Spiridonova
Spiridonova's target was , a landowner and Tambov provincial councilor who had been appointed district security chief in Borisoglebsk, a town southeast of Tambov. Luzhenovsky was known for his harsh suppression of peasant unrest in the district, and the SR committee in Tambov "passed a death sentence on him". Spiridonova volunteered to kill him. She stalked Luzhenovsky for several days, and finally got her chance at the Borisoglebsk railway station on 16 January 1906. She fired several shots from a revolver, and hit Luzhenovsky five times. He died on 10 February.
Spiridonova was immediately captured by Luzhenovsky's Cossack bodyguards, and taken to Tambov the next day.