Simo Häyhä was one of the most famous soldiers to serve in World War II – a Finnish military sniper credited with more than 500 confirmed kills, earning him the nickname “The White Death”.

Russia made more than 300,000 Model 1891/30 sniper rifles during the war. (Illustration by ... German snipers reportedly preferred captured Mosin-Nagants to their own Mauser Karabiner 98k rifles.