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The Tupolev ANT-9 (Russian: Туполев АНТ-9) was a Soviet passenger aircraft of the 1930s. It was developed as a reaction to the demand for a domestic airliner. At this time Deruluft one of the forerunners of Aeroflot only flew with foreign models which were mainly German or Dutch. Design work began in December 1927. The first prototype named Krylia Sovietov (wing of the Soviets) used three French Gnome-Rhone Titan radial engines.