Ten Years of the N. E. Zhukovsky Red Army Air Force Military Academy. 1922–1932 (Desyat' let Voennoy vozdushnoy akademii RKKA), 1932. In Russian

Десять лет Военной воздушной академии РККА имени проф. Н. Е. Жуковского. 1922–1932. / Ред. А. Бобуков и В. Боргенс; Обложка худ. А. Ушина.
Москва : Государственное военное издательство, 1932.
190, [2] с. : ил., портр. Издательский коленкоровый переплёт с золотым и серебряным тиснением, формат 225 х 155 мм.
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Ten Years of the N. E. Zhukovsky Red Army Air Force Military Academy. 1922–1932 (Desyat' let Voennoy vozdushnoy akademii RKKA). / Eds. A. Bobukov and V. Borgens; Cover by A. Ushin.
Moscow : State Military Publishing House, 1932.
190, [2] pp. : ill., ports. Publisher’s buckram binding with gold and silver embossing, format 225 x 155 mm.

This 1932 jubilee edition is a significant historical artifact documenting the first decade of the Soviet Union's premier aviation institution. Named after Nikolai Zhukovsky (1847–1921), the "father of Russian aviation," the academy was the crucible where the technical and command elite of the Red Army Air Force was forged. The book provides an exhaustive account of the academy's evolution from its post-revolutionary inception to its status as a world-class center for aeronautical research and military training.
The volume is richly illustrated with photographs of early Soviet aircraft, laboratory equipment, and the sprawling academy campus. It details the transition from wooden biplanes to the more advanced metal designs that would later face the Luftwaffe. However, the book’s historical weight is intensified by its human element. It contains portraits of the high command and faculty, including Ya. I. Alksnis, S. G. Khorkov, and Ya. G. Indrikson.
Within five years of this book's publication, almost the entire leadership featured in these pages would be purged and executed during the "Great Terror" of 1937–1938. Consequently, many copies of this book were censored by their owners—faces were inked out or pages torn out to avoid being associated with "enemies of the people." A complete, unredacted copy like this one is an exceptional rarity, serving as a poignant memorial to a decimated generation of aviation pioneers and a primary source for the tragic history of the Red Army.