Il-2 evolution table
Il-2 prototypes: TsKB-55, TsKB-57, TsKB-55P, Il-2M-82, Il-2bis, Il-2 with UTK-1
Il-2 prewar-built single-seater (unofficial designation; model 1941 early)
Il-2 wartime-built single-seater (unofficial designation: model 1941 late)
Il-2 single seater with VYa-23 guns (unofficial designation: model 1942)
Ilyushin Il-2 single-seater with VYa-23 guns (Il-2 model 1942) with winter painting
Il-2s model 1942 with field-added rear gun position
Il-2 two-seater with straight wings, up to August 1943 (unofficial designation: Il-2M early, Il-2 model 1943 early)
Il-2 two-seater with straight wings, after August 1943 (unofficial designation: Il-2M late, Il-2 model 1943 late)
Il-2 two-seater with arrow wings (unofficial designation: Il-2M3, Il-2 type 3, Il-2 model 1944)
Il-2 with underwing pods for NS-37 guns (Il2-37)
Il-2I (Istrebitel) Fighter version's prototype
IL-2KR reconaissance/artillery spot plane version
UIL-2 (or IL-2U) double command training variants
Il-2s remarked by Axis
Ilyushin Il-2 exported after the war's end
Il-2 of Zvezda, 1/72 review by Michael Neradkov Uploaded on June 27, 2006
Research of Ivan Rodionov on the first prototypes of Il-2 (TsKB-55, TsKB-57, TsKB-55P) Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (6) in 1941 updated in May 2023 Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (7) in 1942 updated in June 2023 Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 1 in 1942 Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 30 in 1942 Research of Ivan Rodionov on single-seater Il-2s built in Factory 381 Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 30 in 1942-1945 Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (7) in 1942-1944 Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 18 (8) in 1944-1945 Research of Ivan Rodionov on two-seater Il-2s built in Factory 1 in 1942-1945 Research of Ivan Rodionov on Il-2 geometry   Translation by Daniele Righi

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Bibliography:

Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik, 4+ publications

Ilyushin Il-2 and Il-10 Shturmovik of Y. Gordon and S. Komissarov, ed. Crowood

Shturmovik Il-2 of Oleg Rastrenin, Arsenal Koll. 2005

Shturmovik Il-2 of Oleg Rastrenin, ed. Eskmo

Many files on Il-2 of Viktor Publishing, by Viktor Povinsky

Il-2 Shturmovik guards units of the WW2, of Oleg Rastrenin , ed. Osprey

Ilyushin Il-2 attack aircraft, of Oleg Rastrenin, ed. Jakab

Profile 088- Ilyushin Il-2

Monografie Loctnicze n.022 Il-2 and Il-10

Red Line 02- Il-2 and Il-10- WWP

Barbarossa Victims, of T.Kopanski, ed. Mushrooms

Geust, Keskinen, Stenman: Red Stars ed. Apali

Il-2 in action, Squadron Signal

Soviet combat aircraft of the Second World War vol.2, ofGordon and Khazanov, ed. Midland

Some issues of M-Hobby and Aviacia i Kosmonautika

Painting and markings of the soviet planes 1941-1945 , Vaklamov and Orlov, Aviakollekcia 12/2009

Links:

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72705 Walkaround of all-metal Yugoslav Il-2 at the Belgrade museum.

http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Research/Ilyushin/Il-2/Walkround/Serbia/ Walkaround of all-metal Yugoslav Il-2 at the Belgrade museum

http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?board=45.0 subforum on Il-2 at Sovietwarplanes, in English

http://scalemodels.ru/modules/forum/viewtopic_t_7288_start_0.html wide general topic on Il-2 in Russian

http://vadimvswar.narod.ru/ALL_OUT/AiKOut02/IL2_1/IL2_1001.htm a big monograph in Russian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foRaHcjTAzg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3WMFPUuqo&feature=player_embedded#!

http://www.airpages.ru/dc/il2_01.shtml includes many fully illustrated pages of pilot's manual and details of the cockpit. In Russian.

https://military.wikireading.ru/27299 page with good images of details. The color profiles are dated. In Russian.