Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (May 20, 1925 _ May 12, 2001) was a Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of the first Soviet supersonic passenger jet, the Tupolev Tu_144. He also helped design the Buran space shuttle.
Tupolev was the son of famed Soviet aircraft pioneer, Andrei Tupolev. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1949 and began working with his father at the Tupolev Design Bureau. He became chief designer in 1963 and general designer in 1973.
Tupolev was a leading light of the Moscow-based Central Aero and Hydrodynamics Institute (TsAGI; (Russian: Центральный аэро-гидродинамический институт; ЦАГИ)) from 1929 until his death in 1972.
To his contemporaries, Tupolev was known as a witty but crude master of mat (a rapid-fire Russian male-speak infused with obscenity) who invariably and energetically insisted on fast and adequate technical fixes at the expense of scholastic ideal solutions.
Tupolev was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia.
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