Sources on Litviak in Russian



I will be providing detailed annotations on these sources in the future. For now, I have boldfaced the sources that are most reliable and accurate. Sources to be used with caution are so noted.

Published:

"Vozdushnykh Pobed." Ogonek no. 15-16 (828-829) (1943): cover, 1.

"Liubimaia Doch' Sovetskogo Naroda." Ogonek no. 4 (817) (1943): 7.

"Nagradi Za Myzhestvo." Pravda, 6 May 1990, 1.

"Podvig Ostaetsia Podvigom." Komsomolskaia pravda, 6 May 1990, 1.

Arganovskii, Valerii. Belaia Liliia. Moskva: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1979.

Chugaev. Geroi i Podvigi: Sovetskie Listovki Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny 1941-1945 Gg. Moscow: Politizdat, 1958.

Eremin, Boris Nikolaevich. Vozdushnye Boitsy. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1987.

Golovachev, P. "My Ikh Lyubili." In Geroi I Podvigi, edited by M. F. Loshchits, 111-113. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1963.

Gribanov, Stanislav Vikent'evich. "Ognennaia Liliia." In Geroi I Podvigi, edited by M. F. Loshchits, 151-157. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1966.
________. "Vyletala Liliia V Boi." Aviatsiia i kosmonavtika no. 3 (1968): 15-19.
________. "Liliia." In V Nebe Frontovom: Sbornik Vospominaniy Sovetskikh Letchits-Uchastnits Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny, edited by M. A. Kazarinova, N. F. Kravtsova and A. A. Poliantseva, 328-340. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1971.
________. Na Ognennykh Vysotakh. Moscow: DOSAAF, 1977.

Gubin, B. A., and V. A. Kiselev. Vos'maia Vozdushnaia: Boevoi Put' 8-I Vozdushnoi Armii (The Eighth Air (Army): Combat History). Moscow: Voenizdat, 1986.

Kanevskii, A. "Ia Samaia Schastlivaia ..." Aviatsiia i kosmonavtika, March 1990, 36-38.

Kazarinova, M. A., N. F. Kravtsova, and A. A. Poliantseva, eds. V Nebe Frontovom: Sbornik Vospominanii Sovetskikh Letchits-Uchastnits Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny. 1st ed. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1962. [NOTE: Use with caution; contains errors and questionable information. Some articles were allegedly ghostwritten.]
________. V Nebe Frontovom: Sbornik Vospominanii Sovetskikh Letchits-Uchastnits Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny. 2nd ed. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1971. [NOTE: Use with caution; contains errors and questionable information. Some articles were allegedly ghostwritten.]

Kirsanov, N. A., and V. F. Cheremisov. "Zhenshchiny V Voiskakh Protivo-Vozdushnoi Oborony V Gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny." Istoriia SSSR no. 3 (1975): 63-75.

Lavrinenkov, Vladimir Dmitrievich. Vozvrashchenie V Nebo (Return to the Sky). 2nd ed. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1983.

Loshchits, M. F., ed. Geroi I Podvigi. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1963.

Murmantseva, Vera Semenova. "Sovetskie Zhenshchiny V Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voine 1941-1945." Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal no. 2 (1968): 47-54.
________. Zhenshchiny V Soldatskikh Shineliakh. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1971.

Ovchinnikova, L. P. Zhenshchiny V Soldatskikh Shineliakh. Volgograd: Nizhne-Volzhskoe, 1987.

Pasportnikova, Inna. "Geroi Ne Umiraiut." In V Nebe Frontovom: Sbornik Vospominaniy Sovetskikh Letchits-Uchastnits Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny, edited by M. A. Kazarinova, N. F. Kravtsova and A. A. Poliantseva, 369-379. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1971.

Polunina, Ekaterina. Devchonki, Podruzhki, Letchitsy (Girls, Girlfriends, and Female Pilots). Moskva: Vestnik Vozdushnogo Flota, 2004. [NOTE: Use with caution; relies on poor sources and contains questionable information.]

Popovich, M. L. "Nebesnaia Diana." Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal no. 3 (1995): 86-88.

Shchukin, N. Vestnik protivovozdushnoi oborony no. 2 (1991): 77-78.

Shtein, Iu. "Belaia Lilia." In V Nebe Frontovom: Sbornik Vospominaniy Sovetskikh Letchits-Uchastnits Velikoi Otechestvennoi Voiny, edited by M. A. Kazarinova, N. F. Kravtsova and A. A. Poliantseva, 247-257. Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1962.

Shtuchkin, N. "Ee Zvali Lilia." Kryl'ia Rodiny no. 3 (1973): 4-5.
________."Ee Zvali Lilia." Vestnik protivovozdushnoi oborony no. 2 (1991): 75-78.

Web video:

Interview with Valentina Vaschenko, curator of Liliia Litviak museum in Krasnyi Luch, Ukraine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEwzeUMwAi4

Unpublished:

Eremin, Boris Nikolaevich. Interview with Reina Pennington, 10 May 1993.
Pasportnikova, Inna Vladimirovna. "Moi Komandir." 1989.
________. Letters to Reina Pennington, , 27 Aug 1992 and 3 Sep 1992.
________. Interviews with Reina Pennington, 8 May, 12 May and 15 May 1993.
Gridnev, Alexander Vasilevich. "Memuary." ts., n.d.
________. Letters to Reina Pennington, 18 Aug, 19 Aug 1992, 12 May, 13 May, 14 May 1993.
________. "Letter to Kasatkina." edited by Klavdia Ivanovna Terekhova-Kasatkina, n.d.
________. Interviews with Reina Pennington,12 May, 13 May and 14 May 1993.


Documents:

Eremin, B. N. "Nagradnoi list, Lidiia Vladimirovna Litviak (Award Certificate)." 25 May 1989. TsAMO f. 33, op. 686044, d. 4, l. 279. Podolsk, Russia: TsAMO.

Baranov, LtCol Nikolai. "Kharakteristika (Lidiia Vladimirovna Litviak)." 5 February 1943. VVS.

Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich. "Order No. 460056 Awarding Lidiia Vladimirovna Litviak Hero of the Soviet Union, Gold Star No. 11616." 5 May 1990. Order of the President of the USSR.

Kanevskii, A., and B. N. Eremin. "Khronika Boevykh Pobed Gv. Mladshchego Leitenanta Litviak Lidii Vladimirovny, Komandira Zvena 3 Ae 73 Gvardeiskogo Iap." 31 March 1989. Podolsk, Russia: TsAMO.