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The Tupolev ANT-53 was a late 1930s project for a passenger aircraft by the Tupolev Design Bureau.

ANT-53
Desktop model of the Tupolev ANT-53
Role	Airliner Type of aircraft
National origin	Soviet Union
Manufacturer	Tupolev
Designer	Vladimir Petlyakov
Status	paper project only
Primary user	Aeroflot (intended)
Number built	0
Developed from	Tupolev TB-7

Development and design

The Tupolev ANT-53 was developed as an airliner derivative of the Tupolev TB-7 heavy bomber, effectively constituting the Soviet counterpart to the Boeing 307 Stratoliner pressurized airliner. The pressurized cabin of the ANT-53 would have accommodated 48 passengers or 6 tons of cargo, and power was to be supplied by either 4 Mikulin AM-34FRNV or 4 Tumansky M-85 engines. However, development was abandoned due to shortages of aerospace engineers resulting from the 1937-1938 Great Purge.[1][2]

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