WWI and WWII Foreign Purchases

A lot of attention is aimed at the numbers for Lend-Lease aid received by the USSR in WWII, but what about the aid received by the Russian Empire during WWI? Despite being a much less discussed topic, the numbers are, in some cases, much greater than the LL ones. RGAE-413-12-8605 has the info we need.

Item	Unit	Import to Russia  1914-1917	Import to the USSR  1941-1944
Aircraft (various)	units	11,000	15,641
Aircraft motors	units	17,000	7,159
76 mm cannons Cannons of all calibers	units	5,625 -	- 10,654
Bomb launchers and mortars	units	1,352	283
Machineguns (various) AA machineguns	units mounts	42,398 -	- 2,601
Rifles (various) Submachineguns (various) and AT rifles	units units	2,461,000 -	41,150 126,300
Shells (various)	millions	15.7	49.9
Cartridges (various)	millions	983.0	1,388.1