Armada

I haven't been doing any new research on Soviet WWII tanks for several years now and I don't plan to do so with a few exceptions (some book projects on post WWII Soviet tanks). I do continue to get many of the new Russian books, but my main focus for the past several years has been US AFVs in the ETO 1944-45.

Armada did a book on Soviet WW2 camouflage and markings a few years ago that appeared in both Russian and English. I don't know if it is still in print. I don't think it had anything comprehensive on air ID markings as they were adopted locally for specific operations so the records are very scattered. A lot of the stuff I had in my books actually came from German Fremde Heer Ost intelligence records, not Russian sources. There have also been a lot of scattered references to these markings in various publications on Russian tanks, such as the rcent MBI book from the Czech Republic on the T-34-76. The other problem of course is that it is very difficult to identify the markings since the turret roofs are not often seen in photos.

I'm afraid that if you are really interested in this subject, you're going to have to piece it together from many sources.