On Friday November 21 1942, Lieutenant Pavlichenko visited Coventry, UK, and accepted donations of £4,516 from Coventry workers to pay for three X-ray units for the Red Army.
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Pavlichenko was sent to Canada and the United States for a publicity visit and became the first Soviet citizen to be received by a US President when Franklin Roosevelt welcomed her to the White House.
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She also visited Coventry Cathedral ruins, then the Alfred Herbert works and Standard Car Factory from where most funds had been raised.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Lyudmila Zykina | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya | Lyudmila Maksakova | Lyudmila Zhuravlyova | Lyudmila Tselikovskaya | Lyudmila Titova | Lyudmila Khazieva | Dmitri Pavlichenko |