Tupolev is well known for its big aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s, perhaps the most famous being the impressive ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky. Today we are looking at the ANT-4, the first all-metal bomber developed by Tupolev, and the first heavy bomber to be fielded by the Soviet Union.

It led a distinguished life, and gained great fame when it flew from Moscow to New York on an easterly route that covered Russia, the Bering Strait and all of North America. As the TB-1, it formed the foundation for the Soviet Bomber force and heralded the start of a line of impressive aircraft that would establish Tupolev as one of Russia's greatest aircraft manufacturers.

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