Long Range Soviet Aircraft

[KJ_Lesnick]

I remember something to the effect of the fUSSR developing an incredibly long range aircraft that flew something like 6,000-7,000 miles from the USSR to the US nonstop: Does anybody know the type of aircraft?

I do remember a few details such as the fact that it had a fuel fraction of around 30%

[JayBee]

If you are thinking of pre WW2 then it is most probably the Tupolev ANT-25.
There is/was a kit of it available in 1/72. I sold the one I had to OGL who turned it into a clandestine Russia-UK courier.  
As far as the real aircraft is concerned there is some doubt as to whether it really did the Russia to Oregon, USA flight in one stop.
There is a book, sorry I can not remember the title, which has an "eye witness" report of just such an aircraft being offloaded from a ship in, I think, Alaska before it completed the flight.
Remember this was at a time when Russia, and no doubt other countries, were trying to look wonderful in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Jim

[JayBee]

....and here is the photo of OGL's model.

[zenrat]

Tu-95 Bear.
Range of 15,000 km (9400 miles).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95#Specifications_.28Tu-95MS.29

[Dizzyfugu]

There were also designs in the B-36 class, with six piston engines. They did not make it to the hardware stage, though, but the Tu-4 went through several evolutionary steps with prototypes (the Tu-80 and Tu-85, the latter was good for 12,000 km/6,500 nmi,/7,457 mi), but the piston-engined bomber was a dead end. The M-4 was then the attempt of a strategic long-range bomber, but it did not have enough range either. It took until the Tu-95 that a truly intercontinental aircraft came into service.