The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967–1973. The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict

INDEX

xvi, 114, 142, 201–2, 204, 207–8, 214,
219–20, 232–3, 243, 246, 257, 260,
267, 269–70, 272, 289, 295, 308,
329–30, 340, 351, 356, 452n20
Vlasenko, Nikolay (Soviet adviser), 144
Voice of America (VOA), 9
Voinov, Aleksandr (Soviet pilot-adviser),
61
Volkogonov, Dmitry (Soviet military
historian), xxiv, 186
Volobuyev, Evgeny (Soviet naval officer),
331
Voronezhsky Komsomolets (Soviet landing
ship), 22–3
Vorontsov, Yuly (Soviet diplomat), 205,
310
Vybornov, Aleksandr (Soviet pilot), 4, 8,
367n5–6, 430n3
Wadi Natrun (training facility), Eg ypt,
118–9, 163, 338, 401n37
Warnke, Paul (US official), 97
Warsaw Pact, xiii, xvi, xxii, 5, 16, 20, 49, 83,
99, 121, 151–2, 166, 288, 342,
373–4n26
Weizmann, Ezer (Israeli general), 117, 206
West Germany (FRG), 4, 38, 46, 48, 68, 73,
82, 387n10, 388n30. See also East
Germany ; Nazi Germany

Yakovlev Yak–25 (Soviet aircraft),
427–8n15
Yakovlev (Soviet pilot), 422n26
Yakushev, Viktor (Soviet interpreter), 241,
287
Yaremenko, Valery (Russian military
historian), 85, 121–2, 151–2, 154, 184,
187, 393n69, 398n44
Yavorsky, Gennady (Soviet adviser), 272
Yefimov, A.N. (Soviet Air Force com-
mander), 154
Yeltsin, Boris (Russian president), xxii, xxvi,
330

Yemen, 35, 47, 59, 79–80, 234

Yena, Andrey (Soviet air adviser), 289–91

York, Herbert (US disarmament activist),

237

Yost, Charles (US diplomat), 103–4

Yugoslavia, 5, 7, 17, 19–20, 40, 46, 49, 60,

74, 136, 325

Yurchenko (Soviet pilot), 422n26

Yusry, Adel Suleiman (Eg yptian general),

266

Yusubov, Ziyaddin (Soviet interpreter), 144

Zaborsky, Vladimir (Soviet naval officer),

327, 352–3

Zafar (Eg yptian missile), 350

Zakharov, Leonid (Soviet airman), 60–1,

142

Zakharov, Matvey (Soviet chief of staff ),

12, 21, 24, 26, 36–8, 43, 73, 123, 153,

207–8, 342, 378n18

Zamir, Amos (IAF pilot), 179

Zamir, Zvi (Mossad chief ), 147–8, 165,

251, 256, 322, 328, 333–5, 410–11n73,

457n51

Zamyatin, Leonid (TASS director), xvii,

233

Zavesnitsky, S.K. (Soviet SAM officer), 179

Zayyat, Mohamed (Eg yptian foreign

minister), 333, 335

Z e’ev (Israeli rocket), 85, 94, 106–8

Ze’ira, Eliyahu (IDF MI chief ), 111,

147–8, 290–1, 309, 322, 328, 331–2,

334, 349, 455n14

Zeldovich, Yakov (Soviet nuclear weapons

developer), 350

Zhdanov, Aleksey (Soviet SAM adviser),

143

Zhirokhov, Mikhail (Russian aviation

historian), 89, 124, 137, 168, 367n5,

368n20, 421n14, 422n19, 26, 28, 36

Zhukov, Yury (Russian naval historian),

327, 353