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References
- Notes
- ↑ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 206–217.
- Bibliography
- Durkota, Allen (1995). The Imperial Russian Air Service: Famous Pilots and Aircraft and World War I. Mountain View, California: Flying Machines Press. ISBN 9780963711021.
- Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell F. & Alegi, Gregory (1997). Above the War Fronts: The British Two-seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces, 1914–1918: Volume 4 of Fighting Airmen of WWI Series: Volume 4 of Air Aces of WWI. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-1-898697-56-5.
- Kulikov, Victor (2013). Russian Aces of World War 1: Aircraft of the Aces. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781780960616.