Pin made in Soviet Russia. The pin shows the Tupolev TU-70. The text on the pin reads:”The first Soviet fifty-seater aircraft”, and:”With a sealed cabin”, and:”Long-range passenger aircraft”.
The Tupolev TU-70 was a Soviet passenger variant of the TU-4 bomber, an unlicensed, reverse engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Designed immediately after the end of World War II, it used a number of components from Boeing B-29s that had made emergency landings in the Soviet Union after bombing Japan.
The aircraft was successfully tested, recommended for serial production, but ultimately not produced because of more pressing military orders and because Aeroflot had no requirement for such an aircraft. A military cargo aircraft version was the Tupolev Tu-75.