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- ↑ Meltyukhov 2008, p. 479.
- ↑ Glantz 2010, p. 59.
- ↑ Glantz 2010, p. 171.
- 1 2 Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union 1964, p. 19.
- 1 2 Feskov et al. 2013, p. 382.
- ↑ Vozhakin 2006, p. 200.
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