Though there were initial thoughts of mounting the KhAI-3's Shvetsov M-11 five cylinder radial engine on a pylon over the wing, it was finally placed ahead of the leading edge on steel tubes from the front wing spar and fed from four tanks in the central wing. The KhAI-3 was intended to show that low-powered aircraft could carry a useful eleven-passenger load with an engine producing just over 100 hp (75 kW). From the Wikipedia article (which cites The Osprey Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft 1875-1995):
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