An event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of aircraft designer Alexei Tupolev's birth was held at the Russian House in Ashgabat. The event took the form of an interactive lecture. Young people interested in the history of aviation and engineering participated in the lecture.

Participants were offered a quiz on their knowledge of the Tu family of aircraft, as well as a mini-discussion on the future of aviation, discussing the prospects of hydrogen engines, artificial intelligence in piloting, and industry development priorities.

Alexei Tupolev was born on May 20, 1925, in Moscow. At the age of 16, during the Great Patriotic War, he entered the Aviation Institute, but soon went to work on the home front, assisting with military production.

Among Alexei Tupolev's greatest achievements was his work on the world's first supersonic passenger jet, the Tu-144, which reached speeds of over 2,000 km/h. He also oversaw the development of the Tu-22M and Tu-160 ("White Swan") strategic bombers, as well as the Tu-154 and Tu-204 passenger jets.

Since the 1970s, Alexey Andreevich headed the Tupolev Design Bureau. He was one of the first to propose the use of computer modeling in aircraft design and contributed to the creation of the first CAD systems in the domestic aviation industry.

Alexey Tupolev was an academician, a Doctor of Engineering Sciences, a laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, and a Hero of Socialist Labor. He died in 2001. After his death, a bas-relief was placed on the Tupolev Design Bureau building with the inscription: "He gave wings to the sky, and faith in reason to people."