Noah Petrovich Adamia

Noah Petrovich Adamia, 1917-1942, a Georgian starshina of the Red Navy, platoon commander of submachine-gunners and sniper instructor in the 7th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. He took part in the Sevastopol sniper movement and is recorded as having trained about eighty snipers; he is credited with more than two hundred enemy soldiers killed during the defence of Sevastopol. He was killed on 3 July 1942, a day before the last of the city's defenders were overcome, and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was conferred on him on 24 July 1942.