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During the second half of the 1950s, A.N. Tupolev's OKB-156 gave a thought to turboprop derivatives of both the Tu-16 bomber and the Tu-104 transport, in order to gain significant increases in range at the price of a slight reduction in maximum speed. Those were respectively aircraft "90", a Tu-16 with two Kuznetsov's OKB-276 NK-12M, and the Tu-118, a cargo derivative of the Tu-104 with four of the same OKB's TV-2F. Neither was proceeded with as both airframes were already obsolescent and new turbofan engines in newer aircraft already promised better performances.
