Unless a U.S.S.R. aircraft crashes outside the Iron Curtain, or crashes with foreign passengers aboard, Soviet Russia never announces a flying accident. Last week a TU-104 jet passenger airliner ...

Statistics for such aircraft are hard to come by, but some of the most popular models from the Soviet era would almost ...

The Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger jet. However, it was louder ... and limited passenger service. The Russian-built Tupolev Tu-144 was the first supersonic passenger plane ever to ...

Andrei Tupolev. The ceremony was dedicated to the 131st anniversary of his birthday. The history of Vnukovo Airport is closely linked to the name of the aircraft designer. The Tu-104, Tu-114 ...

On the inside it can be quite another story, and that’s certainly the case with the construction of this Soviet-era 7-segment numerical display. From the outside it may look a bit sturdier than ...

The Soviet-era aircraft is often used for transporting high-ranking personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Tu-134 was originally a Soviet passenger aircraft developed by the Tupolev design ...

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Wealthy foreign clients regularly address the Russian aircraft-building company Tupolev for making a private supersonic business class jet on the basis of Russia’s ...

Perhaps the most well-known Soviet/Russian aircraft tasked with maritime patrol and attack is the Tupolev Tu-95 ... among other major Soviet-era weapons. India has retired its Tu-142s but still ...

This outstanding collection of examples of Soviet-era propaganda is arranged chronologically from the Boleshevik Revolution to the Cold War arms race. Artist unknown. "There is a spectre haunting ...

Eighty years ago Moscow saw the birth of the VDNKh project, the most grandiose exhibition park in the Soviet ... aircraft construction methods in architecture, which was typical for the era.