Fri Sep 28 10:09:31 EDT 2001
[1] The Numbered Factories and Other Establishments of the Soviet
Defence Industry.
Parts I (Factories & Shipyards) and II (Research & Design
Establishments) have been fully revised and greatly expanded by
Keith Dexter and Ivan Rodionov and are now available in Version 3
from
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/economics/harrison/vpk/
The form of both databases is a Microsoft Excel97 spreadsheet; PDF
versions are also available. The databases list establishments by
type, number, name (past and present), location, ministerial
subordination, and specialisation, and include other details where
available such as brief history (including evacuation details in World
War II), the names of directors and designers, and mail addresses.
The sources include more than 1,000 archival documents.
The overall filesize of material in both parts taken together now
exceeds 7.5 megabytes; this contrasts with 1.5Mb in version 2 and
670kb in version 1. Version 4, now planned, is unlikely to involve
such a a substantial increase in the volume of material.
[2] Ivan Rodionov's Chronology of the Aviation and the Aircraft
Industry of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1916 to 1946.
The third, updated, and greatly expanded edition of Rodionov's
Chronology is now available from
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/economics/harrison/aviaprom/
The core theme of the Chronology is the historical development of
the aircraft industry. Its form is a series of Russian-language files in
Microsoft Word97 format, one for each year from 1916 to 1946. The
filesize of the present edition is approximately 25 megabytes.
In its present edition the Chronology is based on more than 6,500
source references, comprising 3,500 archival documents, 1,000
published secondary sources and 2,000 internet references.
With best wishes and apologies for cross-postings.
Mark Harrison