<ref name="Forbes2010">{{cite book|author=Andrew D.W. Forbes|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Poltical History of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Tt7wAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126|year=2010|publisher=Granite Hill Publishers|language=en|isbn=978-974-480-161-6|pages=126–|quote=This unit, to be known as the Soviet Red Army 8th Regiment, was to remain in Sinkiang 'idefinitely'....}}</ref>