Soviet military aircraft designation system till 1940.

[airman]

Thanx dear borovik and redstar72 for Your informations.
By work on the Russian historic aircraft I use the following sites :
http://base13.glasnet.ru/ ;
http://www.aviarmor.net/ ;
http://www.tupolev.ru/Russian/ ;
http://www.navy.su/ ;
http://www.airwar.ru/ ;
http://www.airforce.ru/ ;
http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/MISC/RAM/ ;
http://www.airpages.ru/ ;
http://eroplan.boom.ru/ ;
http://avicopress.ru/ ;
http://www.brazd.ru/ ;
http://www.avia-rest.ru/ and http://gysn.ru/ and http://il2.sloboda.net/aviaenc/ don't work anymore.
I'll be very grateful for any other useful sites.

Thanks, avia-rest.ru and gysn.ru are returned on-line, sloboda.net seems dead !

 

[redstar72]

"LK" stood for Leningradskii Kombinat, or Leningrad Combination).

A little correction: the Russian word "kombinat" doesn't mean "combination", it means some special sort of industrial enterprise:
"A big industrial enterprise that combines several different enterprises that are related to each other by a technological process or through an administration" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_%28enterprise%29)

"Leningrad integrated works" - I think this would be the most appropriate translation without specific terms.

Some photos and pictures of LK-1 / NIAI-1 here:
http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7626

P.S. The russian word for "combination" is комбинация.

 

[Taranov]

Sukhoi ANT-29 (DIP) drawings in good quality

Source: Airplanes of the World, 2/2001



Photos, same source