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Born in chains, forged in fire: The Tu-2’s redemption

Soviet bomber designed by Andrei Tupolev while imprisoned in Stalin’s secret gulag design bureau. With enemy bombers devastating Soviet cities and frontlines collapsing, the USSR needed a new kind of ...
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Stalin's Aviation Gulag - A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era [11/12]

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Dostoevsky's name written into Russian airport history

St Petersburg Pulkovo airport is to receive the name of writer Fyodor Dostoevsky while Moscow’s Vnukovo is to be named after legendary Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev. The hubs were among ...
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Stalin's Aviation Gulag - A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era [1/12]

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. L. L. Kerber, typed manuscript for Stalin's Aviation Gulag - A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era, edited by Von Hardesty (Washington, DC: ...