Andrei Tupolev
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Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as the director of the Tupolev Design Bureau.
Tupolev in 1944
The Beginning by Tatyana Ivanova, depicting Tupolev (in cherry-coloured kosovorotka shirt), Nikolay Zhukovsky, and other Russian aviation pioneers at Khodynka Field, preparing the ITU monoplane for a test flight in 1911.
Tupolev (right) with the crew of the ANT-25 aircraft at the Shchyolkovo airfield in 1936. Photo by Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Russian strategic bomber Tupolev Tu-160 named after Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
Tupolev
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Tupolev, officially United Aircraft Company Tupolev - Public Joint Stock Company, is a Russian aerospace and defense company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow.
Andrei Tupolev
…October] 1888 – 23 December 1972) was a Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as the director of the Tupolev Design Bureau. Tupolev was an early pioneer of aeronautics in Russia and served as a protégé of Nikolay Zhukovsky. Tupolev designed or oversaw the design of more…
Tupolev Headquarters at the shore of the Yauza river in Moscow
Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky, the largest airplane of the 1930s, was used for Stalinist propaganda.
Multiple generations of Cold War era Tupolev bombers at Central Air Force Museum, from Tu-4 to Tu-22M
Tu-144 supersonic airliner