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Hell, you didn't need to be an Italian to get "conscripted" into a sharashka. Some of the best Russian aircraft designers (e.g. Tupolev) were contributing to th

by geoka9 13y ago

Hell, you didn't need to be an Italian to get "conscripted" into a sharashka. Some of the best Russian aircraft designers (e.g. Tupolev) were contributing to the Russian war (WWII) effort from prison.

ash 13y ago
Yes. In fact, Tupolev worked with Bartini in the same sharashka (TsKB 29 NKVD - ЦКБ 29 НКВД). See "Tupolevskaya Sharaga" by Kerber (in Russian): http://www.lib.ru/MEMUARY/KERBER/tupolewskaya_sharaga.txt http://www.lib.ru/MEMUARY/KERBER/tupolewskaya_sharaga.txt