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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 372,421 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 48 in 2019). Andrei Tupolev is the 20th most popular engineer (up from 23rd in 2019), the 204th most popular biography from Russia (down from 197th 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 20 out of 323Before him are Otto Lilienthal, Umberto Nobile, Fritz Todt, Willy Messerschmitt, Hans Albert Einstein, and Jack Kilby. After him are Hermann Oberth, Artem Mikoyan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Philo of Byzantium, and Albert Göring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Andrei Tupolev ranks 32Before him are T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, Gerrit Rietveld, Selman Waksman, Frits Zernike, and Inge Lehmann. After him are Maurice Chevalier, Anton Makarenko, Josef Albers, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Carin Göring, and Ossip Zadkine. Among people deceased in 1972, Andrei Tupolev ranks 19Before him are Paul Hausser, Kwame Nkrumah, Erhard Milch, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Dino Buzzati. After him are Maurice Chevalier, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Talal of Jordan, Athenagoras I of Constantinople, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Max Theiler.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 204 out of 3,262Before him are Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia (1876), Gennady Yanayev (1937), Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Alla Pugacheva (1949), and Mikhail Suslov (1902). After him are Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (1895), Öz Beg Khan (1282), Ivan I of Moscow (1288), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Roman Abramovich (1966), and Alexander Herzen (1812).

Among ENGINEERS In Russia

Among engineers born in Russia, Andrei Tupolev ranks 5Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), Anatoly Dyatlov (1931), and Alexei Kosygin (1904). After him are Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Viktor Belenko (1947), Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906), Ivan Sechenov (1829), and Mikhail Gurevich (1892).