Andrei Tupolev

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev (1888–1972) was a pioneering Soviet aircraft designer. In 1940, he'd been arrested for treason against the Soviet Union, but was released in 1944 to build and design aircraft for the state.

Andrei Tupolev in The Man With the Iron Heart
As even Andrei Tupolev had been in a gulag, Vladimir Bokov believed it was possible that his superior Moisei Shteinberg had been in one himself.