Its worse than that - the Bear first flew in 1952!
I’ve been looking up halfways expecting to see one over Maine.
Those counter rotating turboprops must make a fairly distinctive sound, don’t they?
They look a lot like a B-52 with 4 blenders strapped on to the wings.
What is that long rod sticking out of the nose - electronics or a cannon?
The Tu-95/142 Bear is actually a direct evolutionary descendent of the B-29 Superfortress. Three Superforts that diverted to Russia following bombing missions over Japan were interred and reverse-engineered to produce the Tu-4 Bull. Which was the evolutionary starting point for the Bear.