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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Tupolev has received more than 407,577 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Andrei Tupolev is the 23rd most popular engineer (down from 20th in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Russia (up from 204th 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 23 out of 389. Before him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Fritz Todt, José Echegaray, Hans Albert Einstein, Jack Kilby, and Jiro Horikoshi. After him are Artem Mikoyan, August Horch, Willy Messerschmitt, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Philo of Byzantium, and Lennart Torstensson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Andrei Tupolev ranks 33. Before him are T. S. Eliot, Gerrit Rietveld, Maurice Chevalier, F. W. Murnau, Selman Waksman, and Friedrich Olbricht. After him are Anton Makarenko, Inge Lehmann, Abul Kalam Azad, Katherine Mansfield, Georges Bernanos, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.. Among people deceased in 1972, Andrei Tupolev ranks 24. Before him are Paul Hausser, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Erhard Milch, Maurice Chevalier, Dino Buzzati, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. After him are Paul-Henri Spaak, Heinrich Lübke, Max Theiler, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Ghassan Kanafani, and Georg von Békésy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 191 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Gotthard Heinrici (1886), and Vladimir Propp (1895). After him are Grigori Perelman (1966), Alexander Herzen (1812), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Aleksandr Ulyanov (1866), Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia (1882), and Valery Gerasimov (1955).

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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), Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Mikhail Gurevich (1892), Mikhail Mil (1909), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), and Fedor Tokarev (1871).

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