Lyuba Makarova was credited with 84 kills. Makarova was one of the 500 who survived the war and returned soon after to her hometown in perm a decorated war hero. She was famous for her role on the Kalinin front and the 2nd Baltic front. Makarova was awarded the order of glory 2nd and 3rd class.
Olga Shirnin feels that while black and white images remain a piece of history, the world itself wasn’t monochrome during the war. Even more so it would be interesting to know how images in history really looked in color. Below is the image of two more snipers, a young Zeba Denoise and Yvegenia Makeeva who was credit with 68 kills.
The entire set of photographs of Russian female snipers were colorized by translator Olga Shrinina who said "Sometimes a picture can say more than many words and I'll be glad if people learn more about Russia and its people through my colorings, especially about our brave women. It was a phenomenon and no other country had so many female soldiers, snipers, pilots, medicals"