Tsyrendashi Rinchinovich Dorzhiev (Russian: Цырендаши Ринчинович Доржиев; 1912 – 3 January 1943) was a Soviet sniper during World War II credited with killing up to 297 Nazi soldiers as well as shooting down a Nazi plane.

Dorzhiev was born in 1912 to an impoverished Buryat family in the village of Barai Adag, located within present-day Buryatia.

He began hunting on the taiga with his father's rifle at the age of 14 and became a skilled tracker and hunter as an adolescent.

[1] Upon volunteering for the Red Army in 1941 shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Dorzhiev was initially assigned to delivering food on a horse, much to his disappointment about not being able to use his marksmanship skills on the front.

However, he was soon allowed to transfer to a rifle company after explaining to his commanding officer that he wanted to become a sniper because of his previous experience as a marksman.