About the book: 2022 / Book by Doctor of Historical Sciences, specialist in the field of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces defense, is dedicated to the struggle to gain air supremacy on the Russian-German front during the First World War. The work consistently reveals the course of events related to confrontation in the air sphere and the formation of a domestic air defense system. The work provides for the first time the most accurate data on the losses of the military air fleet of Kaiser Germany and its allies in individual campaigns and for the entire period of the war. The work is replete with numerous facts and examples of the actions of Russian pilots and anti-aircraft gunners who created a reliable air shield in the theater of war and in the near rear of our state. In preparing the work, the author relied on documents from the collections of the Russian State Military Historical Archive (RGVIA), the Russian State Military Archive (RGVA), the Russian State Archive of the Navy (RGA Navy), as well as periodicals and memoirs. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.