Can you tell us who’s the publisher or it’s too early to tell ?

If I publish 4 Syrian MiG-21SMT photos – this is more than fact.

Nope. It’s Photoshoped :p

The most important NEED in publications about Russian military aviation:
To publish really good photos from 1945-1990 period.
This is the “big-hole”…..that YG books are not stuffed.

And since the pictures are so expensive to obtain, we won’t see such book anytime soon.

Having pictures that have not been published before is important but the text (including the pictures caption) also is important (at least for me). For instance, Y. Arsenyev and D. Baranov’s article about the 2nd generation MiG-21 states the serial numbers from which various improvements have been introduced (introduction of the KM-1 seat and the two-piece canopy with airframe 941221, etc). To me, such informations should appear in a serious monography.

To me Yefim Gordon is no historian, no serious researcher and his books should not be used as hard reference. He (or the guys that write under his name perhaps…) is too productive and I always have a feeling of uncompletness when I read his books. It’s true that there are quite a few errors in them but the choice is simple: it’s either his books or nothing. I’ll buy the FRA MiG-21 book even if it’s not the definitive work on the plane. I’m afraid there will never be one.