A source of national pride, the Tupolev Tu-104 jetliner drew a crowd at a 1959 national economy exhibition in Moscow, and at all its public appearances. Ria Novosti Anatoly Gorbachev remembers ...

The Tu-104, Tu-114, Tu-124, Tu-134, Tu-154, Tu-204 and the Tu-204-300 made their first passenger flights from this airport, and the first jetliner, Tupolev's Tu-104KB, the monument to which was ...