Tanya Pavelovna

Lieutenant Tanya Pavelovna (Russian: Таня Павлова) is a major protagonist and playable character of the 2004 video game Call of Duty: Finest Hour.
After the Nazis invaded her small village, Tanya was rescued by the Red Army and joined them to defeat the Axis Powers. After showing her skills with a sniper rifle, she was deployed to Stalingrad and worked with her spotter, Aleksandr Sokolov, to liberate her country.
She was voiced by Kim Thomson.
==Biography==
===Background===
Tanya Pavelovna was born around 1915-1916 in the small village of Pitomnik, which was an isolated part of the Russian region. Due to the village's isolation, they didn't know of the Germans invasion, leaving them to be awakened in the middle of night when they attacked. During the chaos, Tanya was separated from her parents, and was later rescued by the Red Army, and joined to fight against the Nazi Party. During her service, Pavelovna and her unit were ambushed by the Germans, but she managed to escape into a collapsed building. Finding a sniper rifle, Tanya killed several Nazi officers, and due to her skills being reported, she was sent to Stalingrad as a sniper.
===Call of Duty: Finest Hour===
In Stalingrad, Tanya pursued a German sniper across the ruins until she killed him at Mamayev Kurgan. She encountered Russian officer Aleksandr Sokolov, who was battling the German sniper after losing his squad mate Oleg Puskov. Apologizing to Sokolov for the death of Oleg, Pavelovna assigned him to infiltrate the Nazis' bunker to stop them from calling artillery strikes. Tanya then provided support for Aleksandr while he lead a unit to reach the bunker, allowing the Russians to to take back the hill. Following their victory, Pavelovna asked Sokolov if he wanted to be her spotter, and he accepted.
Tanya and Sokolov were later assigned to destroy a German panzer, and then worked with Mikael Kirelenko to set up defenses at a tractor factory. However, the trio were forced to escape to the sewers once another panzer arrived, barely surviving mortar shells while navigating the trench. Returning to the factory, Tanya and Aleksandr eliminated Germans soldier during their advancement, and met with Lieutenant Nikolai Badanov once he arrived. While leaving the area on a tank, they were forced to hide as the vehicle needed repairs. While waiting, Tanya was tasked to locate any German activity, and discovered the Nazis were arriving with a bomber unit. She managed to eliminate several Nazis until she was wounded from a panzer shell, and was later helped back to base by Sokolov. 
==Trivia==
*She is the first playable female character in the franchise.
*The character is based on Tania Chernova, who was a Russian sniper during the Second World War.
*She is similar to Polina Petrova from Call of Duty: Vanguard:
**Both are Russian snipers.
**Both want to liberate their country from the Nazi Party.
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