Unknown Giant Soviet Transport Aircraft

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Hi!
Just found this soviet beast. It was meant to have both wheeled and air cushion landing gear. The weight was around 700 tons. Does anybody know more about this giant?
 

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To know the source would be good for further research. ;)
The wing center section and the circle indicated there could suggest, that it was designed especially for
big tubular cargo, rocket stages maybe ?
 
To know the source would be good for further research. ;)
The wing center section and the circle indicated there could suggest, that it was designed especially for
big tubular cargo, rocket stages maybe ?
It was also mentioned in a russian book, I will try to translate and post here.
 
This is TsAGI concept of superheavy long-range transport aircraft studied in 1978-1987. Various designs with payload from 500 to 700 tons were studied, including LNG fueled, having air cushion landing gear system and Aviadvigatel D-110 powered version with some LO tech added.
 
I guess that ICBM as a payload is one of the obvious guesses. May be even with TEL as Satan was just 200+ tons.
 
New images and more details would be very good to uncover this project, I didn't find additional info. Thank you all for the help and let's keep on!
 
LO version of TTS, somewhat cropped, something omitted.
'LO' I'd say is exaggeration here.
 

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LO version of TTS, somewhat cropped, something omitted.
'LO' I'd say is exaggeration here.
Do you know the dimensions of these two variants? The first one I posted uses prop engines. Any idea of this engine model?
 
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