By: Ellie Sakellariou, Kennedy Wheaton, Josh Taylor

Class: Pummel and Hale

​Process Paper

(Wikipedia) (Library of Congress)

​This project had shown both interesting and educational. It was different reading and

learning about someone’s life that hasn’t had any or barely recognition. It is also different to

learn about World War 2 from a different perspective, the perspective of a soldier, or in our

Unsung Heroes’ case, sniper. But this project wasn’t all easy.

It was different to have so much artistic freedom that we had. It was quite different to design

a website rather to a posterboard or a drawing. Realizing now, we should done more for the

design of the website. It seems bland and really doesn’t look that appealing to the eye. If we
changed the font or the color of the text it would have made it more appealing to the eye. Visual

work is just as important as the effort itself.

But the whole project didn’t go as smoothly as we hoped. We had an easy time choosing the

person and getting the information, but getting the interview portion of the project was a

challenge. With Lyudmila and her immediate family/friends all having passed away, it seemed

impossible to find and get an interview with someone that knew her personally or about her.

With the seemingly no surviving radio/TV interviews and the surviving newspaper articles

charging money to be able to see them, we had hit a dead-end road. Luckly, we came across an

interview with a granddaughter of someone who knew her, but that’s it.

It was also difficult determine the likelihood of how she became a sniper. I read an article

that said that she was being rude to the officer and that she got handed the job. While others, like

the one in her autobiography, said that she wore her best dress and heels, brought her medals

with her to convince the man that she could become a sniper. It took the next day, but it worked.

It just made us more careful of information and that first hand info is the best.

Finding videos or photos of Lyudmila Pavlichenko was harder than to admit. The vast

majority of the photos were owned by AP media, which charged hundreds of dollars to get the

rights to for a year or so. The Library of Congress was, once again, our savior. We scoured

youtube to find video of her, we found a vague reference to her in an article, which said she

appeared in the movie Chernomortsy. Chernmortsy is a Russian documentary which has

vanished from the internet, we could only find the IMDB page. The same article mentioned it

might be under a different name, The Black Fleet Sailors, which we found on a film archive
website. We watched the film, and could not find her in it. We were forced to presume that we

has the wrong movie and that Chernomortsy was lost to time.

There was also limited sources about Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Since she was a lesser known

hero outside Russia and not even heard of from the States, it was hard to find viable information

about our Unsung Hero. It seemed like websites just copied the information off of each other.

The only information that we considered safe and liable was her autobiography and few sites that

quoted her and gave resources that backed them up. We didn’t want to plagiarize off of repeating

sites.

Even though this project was educational and helped us understand different viewpoints

outside America, it was not easy as one might expect. We had our stepbacks, but we conquered

them and did a pretty decent website, one that we are proud of.