Sample, lyudmila signed up for the Red Army, and her almost standard female soldier appearance won the favor of recruiting officials. They thought that she could be an excellent logistics staff or a battlefield nurse, but she expressed her hope to pick up a rifle and directly attack the enemy at the front line. She wanted to be a real soldier. The recruiter smiled and asked her, "Do you know how to hold a gun?" Lyudmila immediately took a skillful aiming posture and confidently said that he was a dead shot. But the officers still tried to persuade lyudmila to become a field nurse. They described the cruelty and blood of the battlefield to her: "Bullets don't care if you are a woman." But this was rejected by lyudmila without consultation. Finally, lyudmila joined the Red Army and became a rifle shooter in the 25th Infantry Division.
1941August, the 25th Infantry Division was ordered to defend a valuable hill in Baya Jefka near Baya Djevka. In a village near Baya Jefka, lyudmila was ordered to carry out her first sniper mission. The gun went off and there was a splash of blood in the scope. Lyudmila won her first victory. The second goal appeared again, and lyudmila didn't hesitate at the moment. The enemy was killed instantly, and lyudmila got the first two results, thus starting her real sniper career. Lyudmila cooperated with an observer. His weapon was 1 Mosinnagan189130 7.62mm sniper rifle with a P.E.4 sight. This 5-magazine rifle has a muzzle velocity of 2,800 ft/s and an effective range of over 600 yards, making it one of the best sniper rifles at that time. In two and a half months in Odessa, lyudmila killed 187 enemies. But lyudmila couldn't change the situation, Odessa finally failed to hold on under the strong German offensive, and the Soviet independent coastal cluster was evacuated to Sevastopol. In the brutal battle that followed, lyudmila was wounded by German mortar shells in June 1942. When Stalin, the supreme commander of the Soviet Union, learned the news, he immediately ordered lyudmila to evacuate Sevastopol by submarine. At this point, her score has reached an astonishing 309, becoming a famous female sniper in the Soviet Union. This figure not only shocked the whole Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, but also shocked the whole world. (Before the Battle of Sevastopol, pavlichenko used the M189130 sniper rifle, and later used the SVT-40 sniper rifle. )