Index: Julie Davis
Director of Product Vision: Chris Keeling
Special Projects and Research Manager: Michael Buonagurio
English Edition Editor: Christopher J. Parker
Proofreader: Tim St. Arnold
Russian to English translation services by LanguageTran.com
Russian Edition
Series Design & Artistic Editor: M. Levykin
Editor: G. Pernavsky
Cover Design: V. Petelin
Large-scale Drawings: V. Malginov
Sectional Drawings: P. Shitkin
3-D Graphics: V. Patelaros
Layout Editor: I. Petrovskaya
Layout: R. Yeremeyev
Proofreader: D. Melnik
The quality of some illustrations is that of the archival source material.
The book includes documentation, photography, and illustrations from the following collections: the Central Archive of the Ministry Of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsAMO RF), the Russian State Archive of Sociopolitical History (RGASPI), the Russian State Archive of Economics (RGAE), documents from the archives of Factory No. 9, the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents (RGAKFD), the 1967 photo album “History of KBM,” as well as materials from the archives of Igor Zheltov (IZh), the publisher Strategiya KM (ASKM), Vyacheslav Len (V. Len), Sergei Ageyev (SA), and the author’s personal archive (YuP).
For worldwide distribution except in the CIS (countries of the former Soviet Union) contact:
Casemate Book Distributors
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Library of Congress Control Number 2015912117
ISBN (print): 978-1-940169-02-6 Copyright © 2017
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-940169-08-8 Copyright © 2017
eISBN : 978-1-940169-08-8
Mobi ISBN : 978-1-940169-08-8