TUPOLEV Andrei

Outstanding aircraft, Colonel-General - Engineer (1967), three times Hero of Socialist Labor (1945, 1957, 1972), Academician of the USSR (1953). He graduated from the Moscow Higher Technical School (1918). One of the organizers TsAGI. In 1922 he founded and headed the experimental design bureau, which created the aircraft, torpedo boats, snowmobile. Supervised work on the introduction of duralumin in the aircraft industry. Under the guidance of AN. Tupolev created more than 100 different types of aircraft, 70 of which were introduced in production. Its aircraft has 78 world records, holds 28 unique flights. Of great importance for the development of aviation was the establishment under the guidance of AN. Tupolev world's largest passenger aircraft ANT-20 Maxim Gorky "(1934), medium and heavy bombers, TB-1, TB-3, TB-7, MTB, Tu-2. In the postwar years in its KB created the first domestic jet bomber Tu-12, . first jet airliner TU-102 (1954), . number of supersonic aircraft, . including passenger Tu-144, . Laureate of Lenin (1957) and USSR State Prizes.,




. Biographies

• Portrait and brief biography A
  . N. Tupolev topic "Universal Encyclopaedia" on megaportals "Cyril and Methodius".
  
  
• Portrait and a detailed biography. N. Tupolev at the official website of the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS (r. Zhukovsky, Moscow region).
  
  
• Brief biographical note on the life and activities of the aircraft A. N. Tupolev as an explanation for the origin of the name of the street Tupolev in g. Moscow.
  
  
• Key dates in the life and activities of A. N. Tupolev. Biographical Chronicle of the book "A. N. Tupolev - the brink of daring creativity ". Posted on the website of the International aerospace show MAKS.
  
  

Portfolio

• Machinery Design Bureau of. A. Tupolev at airbase = KRoN = Roman Karshieva. Photos and full specifications of more than 25 types of aircraft, created in EDO.
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• Search by keyword "Tupolev" site "Aviation A to Z" provides information on all types of aircraft, created by Yakovlev Design Bureau
  . A. N. Tupolev.
  
  

Publications

• M. B. Saukke. "Unknown Tupolev". E-book version of A. N. Tupolev server International aerospace show MAKS.
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Miscellaneous

• Information about the Central Design Bureau of the NKVD (CDB-29), where he worked as a
  . N. Tupolev. An article in the section "Universal Encyclopaedia" megaportals of "Cyril and Methodius".
  
  
• Summary of A. N. Tupolev, his relatives and namesake on the site "Russia's genealogical tree."