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- ↑ "News of Bible Translation 2008". Institute for Bible translation, Russia/CIS. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- 1 2 "News of Bible Translation 2011". Institute for Bible translation, Russia/CIS. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ↑ UBS World Report, November 1995, 10-11.
- ↑ Перевод Священного Писания на чувашский язык [Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the Chuvash language]. Российское Библейское общество (in Russian). Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ↑ Шведские ученые перевели Евангелие на язык коми. ИА «Православие на Северной земле» (in Russian). 2008-09-24. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ↑ Перевод Нового Завета на кряшенский язык (in Russian). Российское Библейское Общество. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ↑ В Казани состоялась презентация Нового Завета на кряшенском языке (фоторепортаж) (in Russian). Официальный сайт Казанской епархии «Православие в Татарстане». 2005-12-23. Archived from the original on 2013-04-16. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ↑ Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia p 128 Michael S. Dodson, Brian A. Hatcher · 2013 "... the largest of these translation/ printing projects was the Tatar Turkish New Testament, of which Mirza Farukh was co-translator with Karl Pfander and Felix Zaremba (1794–1874).86 They also worked together on translating tracts and, ..."