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- ↑ Dr Leo Niehorster, Administrative Order of Battle, Transcaucasus Military District, 22 June 1941
- ↑ Sazonov 1946, p. 13.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, p. 149.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, pp. 132–133.
- ↑ Feskov et al 2013, p. 397.
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- Feskov, V.I.; Golikov, V.I.; Kalashnikov, K.A.; Slugin, S.A. (2013). Вооруженные силы СССР после Второй Мировой войны: от Красной Армии к Советской [The Armed Forces of the USSR after World War II: From the Red Army to the Soviet: Part 1 Land Forces] (in Russian). Tomsk: Scientific and Technical Literature Publishing. ISBN 9785895035306.
- Sazonov, Major General (1 November 1946). "Выписка из исторического формуляра 60 ск" [Extract from the Historical Form of the 60th Rifle Corps]. Pamyat Naroda (in Russian). Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence . Retrieved 21 February 2019. – Located in fond 949, opus 1, file 2 of the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence
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