Translator’s note — surname of famous Soviet test-pilot brothers in the 1930s.
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Editor’s note — the highest mark of the five-point system still employed in Russia.
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Translator’s note — abbreviation for ‘squadron commander’.
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Translator’s note — between the Volga and Moscow rivers.
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Translator’s note — a Moscow street.
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Editor’s note — a common diminutive for Maria.
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Editor’s note — yet another diminutive for Anna.
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Translator’s note — the pre-revolutionary name of the city of Kalinin — now Tver’ again.
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Translator’s note — the scene of fierce beach fighting on the Black Sea coast in the Caucasus during WWII.
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Translator’s note — a square in Moscow with the three major train stations facing onto it.
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Translator’s note — large caltrop-like obstacles made of welded railway girders.
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Translator’s note — Yuri Levitan — a well-known radio announcer during WWII.
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Translator’s note — abbreviation of ‘Soviet Information Bureau’.
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Translator’s note — a historical name for the wives of
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Translator’s note — military commissariat.
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Editor’s note — winged air force insignia.
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