| | Stalins Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Tupolev, the principal figure in the early development of Soviet aviation and a leading aircraft designer, was led away to immediate imprisonment. |
 | | Tupolev and his design team were imprisoned, along with the Petlyakov and Myasischev design teams, in the buildings Tupolev had worked in prior to his arrestlater to become the Tupolev Design Bureau. |
 | | Kerber recounts Tupolevs central role in Soviet aviation before and after his imprisonment, beginning with his effort to establish the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI)the Soviet Unions leading aviation research and development centerhis prescient advocacy of the transition from wood to metal aircraft construction, and his leadership in the advancement of Soviet bomber and transport aviation. |
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