[Andrey Dikov]

Yuriy Rybin is finalizing the book about Hurricanes used in northern part of Russo-German front. The book is very detailed, contains combat actions and combats service (maintenance, technical kaspects) questions as well. The individual stories of most Hurries are traced including information about English codes and combat history. Yury paid main attention to VVS SF, PVO and army regiments near Murmansk and Northern Karelia.

I offered him and wrote for this book a chapter about Hurricanes of 3 giap KBF (apart 26 iap PVO that was the only regiment which used Hurries near Leningrad). Chapter contains 20 A4 puretext pages with a full and detailed combat history, based on archive information: all claims and losses with comparison with German and Finnish sources etc.etc.

I haven't seen the whole Yury's book, but I know it was roughly ready last spring, when I sent him my chapter. I don't know, when it will be publised in Russia.