In my experience getting Ph.D. dissertation copied from Russia is a royal pain until you establish a contact with a secretary/someone working in the library or so. You send them money and they scan it for you; working with department chairs or other high ranking people unfortunately does not work (at least did not work for me). It is a pity that there is a sea of works on early sabres (how can I not mention Gorelik, Kirpichnikov or literally dozens of others), but how much is translated ? Close to zero - a few works here, a few works there. I have approximately half of Kaminsky's review papers (unfortunately these ones are _really_ short reviews) scanned, so I can easily put them here (I am sure he would not mind). I do have some of this Ph.D. thesises also in a scanned version, however I would warn that some of them are not of top quality. They have a lot of new information, but you have to distill it from 200 pages.
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