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1882, Slepukha, Yelets District, Oryol Province — 1973, Leningrad

Portrait of the Lieutenant General of Aviation Andrei Tupolev

1950

  • oil on canvas. 140 x 90
  • Ж-6026

  • Received in 1954 via the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow


Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888–1972), Soviet aeroplane builder, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), three-times Hero of Socialist Labour (1945, 1957, 1972) and General Commanding Engineer (1968). Winner of the Stalin Prize (1943, 1948, 1949, 1952), the Lenin Prize (1957) and the State Prize (1972). Tupolev designed more than 100 types of aircrafts, including the airliners of TU-models that bear his name.


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