Yelenika (), also known as Yeleninsky () and Yeleninskoye (), is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo'') in
Kartalinsky District
Kartalinsky District (russian: Картали́нский райо́н; kk, Қарталы ауданы, ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-seven in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.Resolution #161 It is located i ...
of
Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast (russian: Челя́бинская о́бласть, ''Chelyabinskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia in the Ural Mountains region, on the border of Europe and Asia. Its administrative center is the city ...
,
Russia
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.
It is the birthplace of
Vasily Zaytsev, the famous
World War II
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Soviet sniper
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Rural localities in Chelyabinsk Oblast
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