Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
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   I’d like to tell you about well-known engineer of aviation Andrei  Nikolayevich Tupolev.I am interested in this person because I like airplanes and  I like everything that connected with them. Especially I am interested in people who constructed these giant «celestial ships». Moreover I would like to study in the university, where Tupolev  studied a lot of years ago…

Andrei  Nikolayevich Tupolev (November 10, 1888 – December 23, 1972)

 Tupolev was born in the village of Pustomazovo near the city of Kimry, Tver region, Russia. In 1909, Tupolev began studying aerodynamics under the Russian aviation pioneer N.E. Zhukovski. During this time he built one of the world's first wind tunnels which led to the formation of an aerodynamic laboratory at IMTU. In 1911, Tupolev was accused of taking part in revolutionary activities, including demonstrations and distribution of subversive literature, and was arrested. He was later released on condition that he return to his family home in Pustomazovo. During his career, he designed and oversaw the design of more than 100 types of aircraft, some of which set 78 world records.

   In 1955 Tupolev had designed and started testing his unique turboprop strategic bomber, the Tu-95. 

At about the same time, Tupolev introduced into service the world's second jet airliner, the Tu-104.  

The aeroplane was the first jet transport to stay in uninterrupted service, and the only one in service anywhere in the world for two years until late 1958.

It was followed by a series of Tu passenger jets, including the supersonic Tu-144, designed by Tupolev's son Alexei Tupolev (1925–2001). 

To his contemporaries, Tupolev was known as a witty but crude master of mat (a rapid-fire Russian male-speak infused with obscenity) who invariably and energetically insisted on fast and adequate technical fixes at the expense of scholastic ideal solutions. A hallmark of his was to get an aeroplane into service very rapidly; then began an often interminable process of improving the shortcomings of the "quick and dirty" initial design. To his competitors among the Soviet aircraft design community, he was known above all as politically astute; a shrewd and unforgiving rival. Tupolev was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. 

Sources of information: Wikipedia, historical encyclopedia of aviation, the book « Tupolev» by Nicholas Bodrihin.