The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft (General Aviation)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: May 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781841760964
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; Aircraft: general interest; Military vehicles; Reference works; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Military - Weapons; Military Aircraft; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Military; Russia; Military - Aviation; History / Military / Aviation; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Military Science
First sentence: Aviatsionnaya Ispitatelnaya Stantsiya, Morskaya Vedomstva, naval air test station, founded late 16 at Petrograd Poly Inst. with seaplane base at Krestovsky Island.