Biography of Tupolev Alexei

During the Great Patriotic War with his parents, he was evacuated to Omsk, where he graduated from high school in the year. Its first design work was the tail wooden end of the Tu-2 aircraft fuselage, which was used in serial production to save metal during the Great Patriotic War. In the year, having returned to Moscow, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute named after S.

Ordzhonikidze now - the Moscow Aviation Institute State Technical University of the MAI. At the end of the institute in the year, he worked in the team of OKB projects A. Participated in the study of the layout of the “88” Aircraft with two turbojet engines and offered his own option with the placement of engines at the fuselage side behind the second wing sheet and with the monotonous main chassis.

It was this layout that was adopted by the team of technical projects S. Eger Hero of Socialist Labor from the year for further development. In the year he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of technical sciences, and in the year - doctors of technical sciences. In the year, he was appointed head of the Super -Supervisory Aircraft Department A. Member of the CPSU since the year.

In the year, he became the general designer of the Aviation Scientific and Technical Bureau named after A. in the year also headed the department “Aerodynamics and the design of aircraft” of the Moscow Aviation Technology Institute now - the K. Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University. From the year-the general designer of the corporation created on the basis of the Anti Anti-Technical Complex of the ATK named after ATK A.

Under its leadership and with direct participation, many samples of aviation technology and their modifications were created:-Tu-4, TU, TU, TU, TU, unmanned experimental unmanned farm-long-range intelligence officer TU YASTROY AND TU and TU Yastreb-2, TU, TU, TU missile systems, the first in the world of the supersonic passenger aircraft TU, TUB, Tum, the experimental aircraft that uses cryogenic fuel, supersonic heavy bomber of the TU, TU, TU, single-stage reusable airborne-cosmic airplane “Buran” TU, that member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Mechanics and management processes in the specialty “Aircraft Engineering”, March 15 Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, a department of mechanics and management processes in the specialty “Mechanical Engineering, including transport engineering”, on December 26, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Author of Works on aerodynamic composite passenger aircraft and aviation ergonomics.

In the year, he was one of the leaders of the Tikhon-Tupolev-Tikhonov Electoral Bloc, which was unsuccessfully advanced in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He lived in Moscow. He died on May 12. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery plot 1. He was awarded 3 orders of Lenin