Reference Lists/Russian Imperial Air Force

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Russian Imperial Air Forces Reference List

Contents 1 Related Subjects 2 People 3 Aircraft 4 References 4.1 Books 4.2 Articles 4.3 Other Documents

[edit] Related Subjects

• Development of Military Aviation in Russia Prior to World War I
• Russian Air Force AOB (January 1, 1915)

[edit] People

	Agafonov, Aleksandr	An early Russian aviator who participated both in the Balkan Wars flying as a volunteer pilot for Bulgaria, and in World War I
	Anatra, Artur	Russian airplane designer and manufacturer during World War I
	Buob, Ivan	Russian aviator during World War I who joined the Soviets and fought during the Russian Civil War
	Efimov, Mikhail	Russia's first aviator, trained to fly at the Farman school in France
	Kazakov, Aleksandr	Russia's leading fighter ace during World War I, and participant in the Russian Civil War on the side of the Whites
	Kovanko, Aleksandr	One of Imperial Russia's earliest aeronauts and founder of its first military airship unit
	Romanov, Alexander	Member of the Russian royal family and naval officer, who helped to establish and organize military aviation in Russia
	Nesterov, Pyoter	Famous Russian (Imperial) pilot notable both for flying the first loop in an airplane (in 1913), and for being the first (in 1914) to down an enemy aircraft in combat, which he did by using a ramming, or "Taran", attack that claimed his life as well.
	Pavlov, Ivan	Russian fighter pilot during World War I who sided with the Reds during the Russian Civil War and subsequently served in the Soviet air forces
	Pokrovskii, Viktor	Russian aviator and commander in the White forces during the Russian Civil War
	Postnikov, Fyodor	Early Russian military balloonist who participated in the Russo-Japanese War
	Rudnev, Evgeniy	Russia's third military pilot
	Shidlovskii, Mikhail
	Shirinkin, Aleksei	Russian fighter ace during World War I, sided with the Soviets and flew in the Soviet air forces and as a test pilot
	Vorotnikov, Alexander	World War I Russian aviator who joined the Reds after the Russian Revolution and became one of the earliest commanders of the Red air forces

[edit] Aircraft

Ilya Muromets

Russian four-engine, long-range bomber and reconnaissance aircraft designed by Igor Sikorsky just before World War I.

[edit] References

[edit] Books

	Title	Author	Year
	The 16th Corps Aviation Unit	Khairulin, Marat	2008
	The Airship-Carrying Cruiser "Rus"	Emelin, A. Yu.; Druzhinin, Yu. O.	1997
	Aviation in Russia	Keldysh, M. V.; Svishchev, G. P.; Khristianovich, S.A; others	1988
	Aviator Cavaliers of the Order of St. George & the St. George Weapon from World War I, 1914-1918	Neshkin, M. S.; Shabanov, V. M.	2006
	Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia	Palmer, Scott W.	2006
	Flying Aces: Russian Aces of World War I	Mityurin, D; Medvedko, Yu.	2006
	History of Aerostatics and Aviation in Russia (July 1914-October 1917)	Duz', Pyotr Dmitrievich	1989
	The Ilya Muromets Bomber at War	Nikolskoi, S. N.; Nikolskoi, M. N.	2008
	Pilots of His Majesty	Gribanov, Stanislav V. (editor)	2007
	Russian Aeroplanes 1914-1918	Maslov, Mikhail	2002

[edit] Articles

	Title	Author	Journal	Volume
	Aeroplanes of Lebedev's Factory	Kulikov, Viktor P.	Air Power History	December 2001
	Broken Wings: The Curtiss Aeroplane Company, K-Boats, and the Russian Navy, 1914-1916	Wilson, Timothy	Journal of Military History	Vol. 66, No. 4 (October 2002)
	Foundation of the First Aeronautics School for Officers in Russia	Kartashev, A. V.	Voenno-Istoricheskij Zhurnal	Vol. 2007, No. 1 Internet Supplement
	The Rusalka, Samoyod, Kobchik, and Others	Aleksandrov, A. O.	Tsitadel	1996 No. 1
	Russian Army Aviation, 1914-1917	Kibovskii, Aleksandr	Zeughaus	No 5. (January 1996)
	The Tsar's Ace	Willett, Robert L.	Aviation History Magazine	Vol. 18, No. 4 (March 2008)

[edit] Other Documents

	Title	Year
	The Sikorsky S-16 and Russian Aviation During the Great War	1995