Wings №2338 02.02.2005 (2005)

Citizen Tupolev.

The program is dedicated to Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev, a great aircraft designer and outstanding personality, one of the creators of TsAGI named after NE Zhukovsky, who designed more than 100 types of aircraft, from the production of the best bomber of the Second World War Tu-2 and ending with the first supersonic passenger aircraft Tu-144.

In the life of Andrei Nikolayevich there were many different stories, from the truly tragic to the incredibly funny.

The great scientist is remembered by his son-in-law Vladimir Vul and the director of the museum of OAO Tupolev Vladimir Rigmant.

The program includes shooting from the Tupolev family archive and a documentary chronicle of different years.