For Anders to Stalin on 31 July 1941, see KDZ3/239. Koptelov's report to Stalin on 7 September 1942 was first published in Materski, Armia Polska, no. 13; an English translation is in Materski, Kremlin versus Poland, no. 6. Stalin had agreed to the evacuation under considerable British pressure. For Anders's account of his trip to London, his return to the USSR, his decision to evacuate all the troops and civilians, and the second evacuation, see Anders, Bez Ostatniego Rodzialu, pp. 125-140; Anders, An Army in Exile, pp. 103-115. See also British Colonel Alexander Ross's “Report on Polish Refugees in Persia: April 1942-December 1943,” in Beaupré-Stankiewicz et al., Isfahan, pp. 80-90, with a table of ships and number of passengers per ship.