Russia built many more than 1,500 civilian aircraft in the past 40 years. With 1,100 Yak-40s and 900 Tu-154s built, the count is already well over 1,500 airframes. I know I can't give accurate information from the time of the Soviet Union; that is why I limited my examples for Russian and western aircraft to 1992 onward, ignoring some spectacularly awful DC-10 crashes that happened prior to that date. Also note the improvement in Russian aviation safety after Putin's crackdown in 2001 following the Vladivostok Avia crash in Irkutsk. I maintain that poor maintenance, not faulty design, is responsible for most mechanically-caused Russian plane crashes.