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Andrei Tupolev

1888 - 1972

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Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (Russian: Андрей Николаевич Туполев; 10 November [O.S. 29 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 than 100 types of civilian and military aircraft in the Soviet Union over 50 years, some of which set 78 world records. Tupolev produced many notable designs such as the Tu-2, Tu-16, Tu-95, and Tu-104, and the reverse engineered Tu-4. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrei Tupolev is the 21st most popular engineer (up from 23rd in 2019), the 189th most popular biography from Russia (up from 191st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Engineer.

Andrei Tupolev is most famous for designing and engineering the Tupolev TU-144, the first supersonic passenger jet.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Andrei Tupolev ranks 21 out of 389. Before him are André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Umberto Nobile, Fritz Todt, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Jack Kilby. After him are Artem Mikoyan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Banū Mūsā, Leslie Groves, Hans Albert Einstein, and August Horch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Andrei Tupolev ranks 30. Before him are Selman Waksman, Friedrich Fromm, Inge Lehmann, F. W. Murnau, Johannes Itten, and Friedrich Olbricht. After him are Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, Anton Makarenko, Alexander Friedmann, Herbert Spencer Gasser, and Richard E. Byrd. Among people deceased in 1972, Andrei Tupolev ranks 23. Before him are J. Edgar Hoover, Paul Hausser, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, and Talal of Jordan. After him are Dino Buzzati, Katherine Oppenheimer, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Maurice Chevalier, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, and Erhard Milch.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 189 out of 3,761. Before him are Andrey Vlasov (1901), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (1708), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), and Yakov Sverdlov (1885). After him are Sergei Diaghilev (1872), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Öz Beg Khan (1282), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882).

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Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 5. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Alexei Kosygin (1904), and Anatoly Dyatlov (1931). After him are Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Fedor Tokarev (1871).

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