1937. The arrest of the aircraft designer Tupolev
80 years ago, on October 21, 1937, on charges of wrecking and belonging to the counter -revolutionary organization, the leading Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev was arrested. Together with him, many other specialists in the industry, directors of most aviation factories were arrested. In 1940, Tupolev was sentenced to 15 years in prison and worked in a closed KB NKVD - Central Design Bureau -29.