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Tupolev
Sign in to saveAlso known as OKB-156, Joint Stock Company Tupolev, Tupolev Design Bureau, JSC Tupolev, Otkrytoe akt︠s︡ionernoe obshchestvo "Tupolev", OKB A.N. Tupoleva
Tupolev (), officially United Aircraft Company Tupolev - Public Joint Stock Company, is a Russian aerospace and defense company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow.
Tupolev is a Russian aerospace and defense company based in Moscow that designs and manufactures aircraft and related defense systems. The company is significant as one of Russia's major players in the aviation industry, contributing to both civilian and military aerospace capabilities.
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Key facts
- Company.name
- UAC Tupolev
- Company.logo
- File:UAC Tupolev logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.image
- Tupolev Headquarters just outside Moscow.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 200px
- Company.image_caption
- Tupolev Headquarters at the shore of the Yauza river in Moscow
- Company.native_name
- Russian: «ОАК Туполев» Конструкторское бюро
- Company.native_name_lang
- ru
- Company.type
- Division
- Company.fate
- merged into United Aircraft Corporation
- Company.founder
- Andrei Tupolev
- Company.location_city
- Academician Tupolev Embankment 17, Basmanny District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow
- Company.location_country
- Russia
- Company.key_people
- Ronis Sharipov, director general
- Company.num_employees
- 3524 (2011)
- Company.parent
- United Aircraft Corporation
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- History
- In the USSR
- Post-Soviet era
- Directors
- Awards
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Tupolev (), officially United Aircraft Company Tupolev - Public Joint Stock Company, is a Russian aerospace and defense company headquartered in Basmanny District, Moscow.
UAC Tupolev is successor to the Soviet Tupolev Design Bureau (OKB-156, design office prefix Tu) founded in 1922 by aerospace pioneer and engineer Andrei Tupolev, who led the company for 50 years until his death in 1972. Tupolev designed over 100 models of civilian and military aircraft and produced more than 18,000 aircraft for Russia, the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc since its founding, and celebrated its 100th anniversary on 22 October 2022. Tupolev is involved in numerous aerospace and defense sectors including development, manufacturing, and overhaul for both civil and military aerospace products such as aircraft and weapons systems, and also missile and naval aviation technologies.
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