Ziba Ganiyeva

Ziba Pasha qizi Ganiyeva (Azerbaijani: Ziba Paşa qızı Qəniyeva, 20 August 1923, Shamakhi, Azerbaijan[1] or in Uzbekistan[2] – 2010, Moscow)[3] was sniper in the Red Army during World War II credited with 21 kills. After the war she became a philologist.[4][5]

Ziba Ganiyeva
Born(1923-08-20)20 August 1923
Shamakhi, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Died2010
Moscow, Russia
Allegiance Soviet Union
Service/branchRed Army
Years of service1941–1943
RankJunior Lieutenant
Battles/warsWorld War II
AwardsOrder of the Red Banner

Life

Ziba Ganiyeva is Azerbaijani by her father and Uzbek by her mother.[2] In 1937, she was admitted to dance courses at the newly established Uzbek Philharmonia. In 1940, she moved to Moscow to enter the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, but voluntarily enlisted in the army on 7 November 1941, shortly after the opening of the Eastern Front of World War II. She was accompanied by another sniper, Nina Solova.

During the war, Ganiyeva was a radio operator and a spy who crossed the front line 16 times. She participated in the Battle of Moscow. Ziba's military service was discontinued after she was heavily wounded during the reconnaissance operation in Moscow suburbs in 1942. She was carried off the battlefield and subsequently spent 11 months in hospital.

After the war she continued her post-secondary education and, in 1965, received a Candidate of Sciences degree in philology.

Works
  • Qorkinin dekadentçiliyə və naturalizmə qarşı mübarizəsi (Gorky's Struggle Against Decadence and Naturalism), "Azərbaycan", 1955, №6
  • О сатире Горького в период первой русской революции (On Gorky's Satire in the First Russian Revolution Period), "Литературный Азербайджан", 1955, №12
  • Страницы из истории революционной поэзии на урду (Pages from the History of Revolutionary Poetry in Urdu), "Народы Азии и Африки", 1970, №2

References
  1. Ziba Ganiyeva
  2. Великий разлом by V.Galanina-El Registan
  3. Nazarli, Amina (2 July 2015). "Azerbaijani women snipers: fragile, but fearless". AzerNews. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  4. САВАШ - Военно-исторический сайт (in Russian). Archived from the original on 5 April 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2008.
  5. Azerbaijan Soviet Encyclopedia (1979), vol. 3, p. 137
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