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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". This is a list of inventors from the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia and Grand Duchy of Moscow, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities.

This list also includes those who were born in Russia or its predecessor states but later emigrated, and those who were born elsewhere but immigrated to the country or worked there for a considerable time, (producing inventions on Russian soil).

For Russian inventions in chronological order, see the Timeline of Russian inventions and technology records.

Alphabetical list

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A

Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:Bruno-abakanowicz.png Bruno Abakanowicz
(1852–1900)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
(Poland/Lithuania origin)
Integraph, spirograph, parabolagraph[1]
File:Various Spirograph Designs.jpg
Spirograph designs
File:Абаковский.jpg Valerian Abakovsky
(1895–1921)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
aerowagon[2]
Vitaly Abalakov
(1906–1986)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
camming devices, Abalakov thread (V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor[3][4]
File:Camalot number 6.JPG
Spring-loaded camming device
File:Evgeny Abramyan.jpg Evgeny Abramyan
(1930–2014)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Template:Country data Georgia
halyard for the first extra-vehicular activity
File:Leonov suit.jpg
Space suit worn by Leonov during the first EVA
Vsevolod Abramovich
(1890–1913)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Abramovich Flyer
File:Adamian1.jpg Hovannes Adamian
(1879–1932)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(Armenia/Azerbaijan/Germany)
tricolor principle of the color television[5]
File:AdditiveColor.svg
RGB color model
Franz Aepinus
(1724–1802)
File:Banner of the Holy Roman Emperor (after 1400).svg Holy Roman Empire
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
achromatic microscope
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
(1922–2014)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel
AVL tree datastructure, Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
File:AVL-tree-wBalance K.svg
AVL Tree
Anatoly Alexandrov
(1903–1994)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
anti-mine demagnetising of ships, naval nuclear reactors (including one for the first nuclear icebreaker)[6][7]
File:Lenin icebreaker.JPG
Lenin, the first nuclear icebreaker
Alexandre Alexeieff
(1901–1982)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
pinscreen animation (with his wife Claire Parker)[8]
File:Pin art, Flickr.jpg
Pin Art
Rostislav Alexeyev
(1916–1980)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
ekranoplan, Soviet high-speed hydrofoils[9][10]
File:Ekranoplan A-90 Orlyonok - edit.jpg
A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplan.
File:Zhores Alferov.jpg Zhores Alferov
(1930–2019)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
heterotransistor (with Herbert Kroemer), continuous-wave-operating diode laser (with Dmitri Garbuzov)[11][12]
File:Laser diode array.jpg
Laser diode array
Genrich Altshuller
(1926–1998)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
TRIZ ("The Theory of Solving Inventor's Problems")[13]
File:Andreev vas.jpg Vasily Andreyev
(1861–1918)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
standard balalaika[14][15]
File:Balalaika.jpg
A souvenir balalaika
File:Stamp of Ukraine s708.jpg Oleg Antonov
(1906–1984)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
An-series aircraft, including Antonov A-40 winged tank and Antonov An-124 (the largest serial cargo aircraft, later modified to world's largest fixed-wing aircraft Antonov An-225)[16]
File:Maximus Air Cargo Antonov An-124-100 Vanzura.jpg
An-124-100
File:1974 CPA 4316.jpg Lev Artsimovich
(1909–1973)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first tokamak[17]
File:Tokamak fields lg.png
Tokamak scheme

B

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Georgy Babakin
(1914–1971)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first soft landing space vehicle (Luna 9)[18]
File:Boris bababayn.jpg Boris Babayan
(born 1933)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia
Elbrus computer
File:Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine - Self-Portrait, 1907.jpg Vladimir Baranov-Rossine
(1888–1944)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
(Ukraine)
(self-portrait)
Optophonic Piano, pointillist or dynamic military camouflage[19]
File:CADPAT digital camouflage pattern (Temperate Woodland variant).jpg
A modern Canadian digital camouflage
Vladimir Barmin
(1909–1993)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
first rocket launch complex (Baikonur spaceport)[20]
File:A Souvenir Dedicated to Vladimir Barmin.jpg
Baikonur spaceport souvenir
File:Basov.jpg Nikolay Basov
(1922–2001)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
co-inventor of laser and maser[21]
File:Laser play.jpg
Laser beams
File:Ernest Beaux.jpg Ernest Beaux
(1881–1961)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
Chanel No. 5[22]
File:CHANEL No5 parfum.jpg
Chanel No. 5.
File:Stamp behterev.jpg Vladimir Bekhterev
(1857–1927)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Bekhterev’s Mixture (a medicine with a sedative effect)[23]
File:Sodium bromide.jpg
Sodium bromide, a part of Bekhterev’s Mixture
File:Stamp Soviet Union 1991 CPA 5183.jpg Nikolay Benardos
(1842–1905)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
arc welding (specifically carbon arc welding, the first arc welding method)[24]
File:Patent Electrogefest.jpg
The first arc welding method, Electro Hephaestus
Aleksandr Bereznyak
(1912–1974)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(left on photo)
first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1 (together with Isaev)[25]
File:Bereznyak-Isayev-1.jpg
BI-1
Georgy Beriev
(1903–1979)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(Georgian origin)
Be-series amphibious aircraftScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Beriev Be-12 Gelenzhik 2Sept2004.jpg
Beriev Be-12 Chayka
File:Fyodor Blinov.jpg Fyodor Blinov
(1827–1902)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first tracked vehicle (a wagon on continuous tracks), steam-powered caterpillar tractor[26][27]
File:Blinov tractor schematic.png
Blinov's caterpillar steam tractor
Sam Born (1891–1959)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
lollipop-making machine[28]
File:GirlWithLollipop.jpg
A particularly large lollipop
File:George de Bothezat 1905.jpg Georgy Bothezat
(1882–1940)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
quadrotor helicopter (The Flying Octopus)[29]
File:De Bothezat Quadrotor.jpg
De Bothezat's quadrotor helicopter.
File:Sergey Brin, Web 2.0 Conference.jpg Sergey Brin
(born 1973)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
with Larry Page, invented Google web search engine[30]
File:Logo 2013 Google.png
Google Search logo
Mikhail Britnev
(1822–1889)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first metal-hull icebreaker (Pilot)[31]
File:1976. Ледокол Пайлот.jpg
Icebreaker Pilot on a postage stamp
Nikolay Brusentsov
(1925–2014)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
ternary computer (Setun)[32]
Gersh Budker
(1918–1977)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
electron cooling, co-inventor of collider[33][34]
File:Crookes tube-in use-lateral view-standing cross prPNr°11.jpg
Electron beam
File:Butlerov A.png Aleksandr Butlerov
(1828–1886)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
hexamine, formaldehyde, formose reaction (the synthesis of sugar)[35]
File:Formaldehyde-2D.svg
Formaldehyde formula

C

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Vladimir Chelomey
(1914–1984)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first space station (Salyut 1), further space stations of Salyut series, Proton rocket (the most used heavy lift launch system)[36]
File:Cerenkov.jpg Pavel Cherenkov
(1904–1990)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Cherenkov detector[37]
File:Cerenkov Effect.jpg
Cherenkov radiation
Evgeniy Chertovsky
(1902–?)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
pressure suit[38]
File:MC-3 pressure suit front.JPG
Pressure suit
Alexander Chizhevsky
(1897–1964)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
air ionizer (Chizhevsky's chandelier)[39]
File:Ionisierer.jpg
A modern air ionizer
Andrey Chokhov
(c. 1545–1629)
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Tsardom of Russia
Tsar Cannon, the largest bombard by caliber but inoperative[40]
File:TheTsarCannonJuly2004.jpg
The Tsar Cannon

D

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Vasily Degtyaryov
(1880–1949)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first self-loading carbine, Degtyaryov-series firearms, co-developer of Fedorov Avtomat (the first self-loading rifle)[41]
File:Akinfy demidov.jpg Akinfiy Demidov
(1678–1745)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
co-developer of rebar, cast iron cupola, lightning rod (all found in the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk)[42]
File:Nevjansk tower acoustic room corner.jpg
Rebars inside the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk.
Yuri Denisyuk
(1927–2006)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
3D holography[43]
File:Denisyuk-holographie.jpg
Denisyuk holography scheme
Aleksandr Dianin
(1851–1918)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Bisphenol A, Dianin's compound[44]
File:Bisphenol A skeletal.png
Bisphenol A formula
File:Doliwo-Dobrowolsky.jpg Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
(1862–1919)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(Poland, Germany)
three-phase electric power (first 3-phase hydroelectric power plant, 3-phase electrical generator, 3-phase motor and 3-phase transformer)[45]
File:Lauffen-Frankfurt 1891e.jpg
3-phase electrical generator on exhibition in Frankfurt,1891
Nikolay Dollezhal
(1899–2000)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
AM-1 reactor for the first nuclear power plant and other RBMK-type reactors, pressurized water reactor (VVER)[46]
File:Wwer-1000-scheme.png
VVER-1000 nuclear reactor
Alexey Dushkin
(1904–1977)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
deep column station[47]

E

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Ivan Elmanov
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first monorail (the so-called "Road on Pillars" near Moscow, with horse-drawn carriages)[48]
File:Moscow monorail001.jpg
Modern Moscow monorail

F

Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:Karl Gustavovich Faberge.jpg Peter Carl Fabergé
(1846–1920)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Fabergé Eggs[49]
File:Memory of Azov Egg.jpg
Memory of Azov Egg
Nicolas Florine
(1891–1972)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium
(born in Georgia)
first tandem rotor helicopter to fly freely[50]
File:USMC CH-46.jpg
A modern tandem rotor helicopter
Ivan Fyodorov
(c. 1510–1583)
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Tsardom of Russia
File:Coat of Arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.svg Poland-Lithuania
invented multibarreled mortar, introduced printing in Russia[51]
File:Fedorovstamp.jpg
Fedorov depicted in his typography
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
(1927–2000)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
radial keratotomy[52]
File:V G Fyodorov.jpg Vladimir Fyodorov
(1874–1966)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading battle rifle, arguably the first assault rifle)[53]

G

Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:Gakkel.JPG Yakov Modestovich Gakkel
(1874–1945)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first Russian-made aircraft and diesel locomotives[54]
File:Gakkel VII.JPG
The Gakkel-VII
File:Golicyn, Boris Borisovich.jpg Boris Borisovich Galitzine
(1862–1916)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
electromagnetic seismograph[55]
File:Seismometer at Lick Observatory.JPG
An electric seismograph
Dmitri Garbuzov
(1940–2006)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-power diode lasers[56]
File:Laser diode array.jpg
Laser diode array
Georgy Gause
(1910–1986)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin and other antibiotics[57]
File:Gramicidin S.svg
Gramicidin S formula
E. K. Gauzen
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
three bolt equipment (early diving costume)[58][59]
File:Kask-nurka.jpg
A Soviet diving helmet
File:Geim.jpg Andrey Geim
(born 1958)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
graphene[60]
File:Graphen.jpg
Graphene
File:Нестор Генко 1.jpg Nestor Genko
(1839–1904)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)[61]
File:RR5110-0084R Valentin Glushko on a 2008 Russian coin.png Valentyn Glushko
(1908–1989)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170)[62]
File:RD-170 rocket engine.jpg
RD-170 rocket engine model
File:Leonid Gobyato.jpg Leonid Gobyato
(1875–1915)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first modern man-portable mortar[63]
File:Gobyato mortar.jpg
Gobyato's mortar
File:Igor Gorynin.jpg Igor Gorynin
(1926–2015)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
weldable titanium alloys, high strength aluminium alloys, radiation-hardened steels[64][65]
File:Titan.PNG
Titanium
Boris Grabovsky
(1901–1966)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
cathode commutator, an early electronic TV pickup tube[66][67]
File:CRT Television Screen.jpg
A modern cathode ray tube
Mikhail Gurevich
(1893–1976)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(left on photo)
MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21 (together with Artem Mikoyan)[68]
File:MiG-21 RB6.jpg
MiG-21

H

Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:Waldemar Haffkine.jpg Waldemar Haffkine
(1860–1930)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
developed and used first vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague[69][70]
File:Paul-Louis Simond injecting plague vaccine June 4th 1898 Karachi.jpg
An injection of anti-plague vaccine

I

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Gavriil Ilizarov
(1921–1992)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Ilizarov apparatus, external fixation, distraction osteogenesis[71][72]
File:Ilizarov2.jpg
Ilizarov apparatus
Sergey Ilyushin
(1894–1977)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Il-series fighter aircraft, including Ilyushin Il-2 bomber (the most produced military aircraft in history)[73]
Aleksei Isaev
(1908–1971)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(second left on photo)
first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1 (together with Bereznyak)[25]
File:Bereznyak-Isayev-1.jpg
BI-1
Isidore
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Russian vodka[74]
Vladislav Ivanov
(1936–2007)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Pioneer of Magnetic resonance imaging[75][76][77]
File:TOSHIBA, MRI Vantage Titan MRT-2004,.jpg
MRI

J

Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:Moritz Hermann von Jacobi 1856.jpg Boris Jacobi
(1801–1874)
File:Flag of Prussia (1892-1918).svg Prussia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
electrotyping (an application of electroplating to typography), electric boat[78]
File:Early Electro-Plating.jpg
Early electroplating

K

Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:Michael Kalashikov.jpg Mikhail Kalashnikov
(1919–2013)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles (produced more than all other types of assault rifles combined)[79]
File:AK-47 assault rifle.jpg
AK-47
Nikolay Kamov
(1902–1973)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
armored military autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotor helicopters[80]
File:KustodiyevSemenov Kapitsa.JPG Pyotr Kapitsa
(1894–1984)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(left on portrait by Boris Kustodiev, with Nikolay Semyonov right)
first ultrastrong magnetic field creating techniques, basic low-temperature physics inventions[81]
File:Liquid helium Rollin film.jpg
The liquid helium in the superfluid phase
Georgii Karpechenko
(1899–1941)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
rabbage (the first ever non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding)[82][83]
File:Radis.JPG
File:Cabbage and cross section on white.jpg
Radish and cabbage
File:Eugene Kaspersky Headshot.jpg Eugene Kaspersky
(born 1965)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Mobile Security anti-virus products[84]
File:Kaspesky Antivirus logo.png
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Logo
Adolphe Kégresse
(1879–1943)
Template:Flagu
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Kégresse track (first half-track and first off-road vehicle with continuous track), dual-clutch transmission[85]
File:Kegresse tsar17.jpg
Nicholas II Packard Twin-6 with Kégresse track
File:Alexander Kemurdzhian 2021 stamp of Armenia.jpg Alexander Kemurdzhian
(1921–2003)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
first space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Yulii Khariton
(1904–1996)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tsar Bomba
Anatoly Kharlampiyev
(1906–1979)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Sambo (martial art)[86]
Konstantin Khrenov
(1894–1984)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
underwater weldingScript error: No such module "Unsubst".
File:Underwater welding.jpg
A modern underwater welding
File:Kibalchich.jpg Nikolai Kibalchich
(1853–1881)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
pioneer of rocketry[87]
File:Soyuz rocket ASTP.jpg
A Soyuz-U, at Baikonur Site 1/5
Semyon Kirlian
(1898–1978)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Kirlian photography
File:Kirl66 g.png
Kirlian photo of two coins
File:Konstantin Konstantinov.jpg Konstantin Konstantinov
(1817/19–1871)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
device for measuring flight speed of projectiles, ballistic rocket pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine[88]
File:RiflemansRule.svg
Trajectory of a bullet
Sergei Korolev
(1907–1966)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first successful intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7 Semyorka), R-7 rocket family, Sputniks (including the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite), Vostok programme (including the first human spaceflight)
File:Vostok spacecraft.jpg
Vostok spacecraft model
File:Korotkov.jpeg Nikolai Korotkov
(1874–1920)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement
File:Sphygmomanometer.jpg
Aneroid sphygmomanometer with stethoscope
File:Korsakov01.jpg Semyon Korsakov
(1787–1853)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
punched card for information storage
File:Linear Homeoscope.png
Korsakov's linear homeoscope
File:Mikhail Koshkin 2023 stamp of Russia.jpg Mikhail Koshkin
(1898–1940)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
T-34 medium tank, the most produced tank of World War II[89]
File:Char T-34.jpg
T-34
File:Ognjeslav Kostovic.jpg Ogneslav Stepanovich Kostovich
(1851–1916)
File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
arborite (high-strength plywood)[90][91]
File:Spruce plywood.JPG
Plywood
File:Gleb Kotelnikov.jpg Gleb Kotelnikov
(1872–1944)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
knapsack parachute, drogue parachute[92][93]
File:Reserveschirm.jpg
A modern knapsack parachute packed
File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.JPG Aleksey Krylov
(1863–1945)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
gyroscopic damping of ships
File:3D Gyroscope.png
Gyroscope
File:Kulibin I P.jpg Ivan Kulibin
(1735–1818)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
egg-shaped clock, candle searchlight, elevator using screw mechanisms, self-rolling carriage (for the first time featuring a flywheel, brake, gear box, and bearing), an early optical telegraph[94][95][96]
File:Kulibin bridge.jpg
Kulibin's project of the one-arch bridge over Neva River.
Igor Kurchatov
(1903–1960)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first nuclear power plant, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
File:Obninsk-AES.jpg
Obninsk nuclear plant

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Portrait Person Inventions Image
File:DALachinov.gif Dmitry Lachinov
(1842–1902)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
mercury pump, economizer for electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester, optical dynamometer, photometer, electrolyser[97]
File:Lachinov Electromechanic Work.jpg
The details of electrical insulation tester depicted in a Lachinov's book
Semyon Lavochkin
(1900–1960)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
La-series aircraft, the first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
File:Memorial La-7 open 7-may-2007.jpg
Lavochkin La-7
Nikolai Lebedenko
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Tsar Tank, the largest armored vehicle in history[98]
File:Tsar tank.jpg
Tsar Tank
File:Sergey Lebedev.jpg Sergei Lebedev
(1874–1934)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
commercially viable synthetic rubber
File:Sheet of synthetic rubber coming off the rolling mill at the plant of Goodrich.jpg
Synthetic rubber making
Lisitsyns,
Ivan Fyodorovich
and his brother
Nazar Fyodorovich
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Russian samovar[99]
File:Samovar.silver.jpg
A typical samovar
File:Lodygin stamp.jpg Alexander Lodygin
(1847–1923)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
electrical filament, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament
File:Lodygin lamp.jpg
Lodygin's lamp draw
File:M.V. Lomonosov by L.Miropolskiy after G.C.Prenner (1787, RAN).jpg Mikhail Lomonosov
(1711–1765)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
night vision telescope, off-axis reflecting telescope, coaxial rotor, original Russian hard-paste porcelain (together with Dmitry Vinogradov), re-discovery of smalt[100]
File:Lomonosov's drawings for his opening of Venus atmosphere 1761.jpg
Lomonosov's drawings for his discovery of Venus atmosphere
File:IuriiLomonosov.jpg Yury Lomonosov
(1876–1952)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
first successful mainline diesel locomotive[101]
File:LomonovYu1train.jpg
The Юэ 001 locomotive
Aleksandr Loran
(1849 – after 1911)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
fire fighting foam, foam extinguisher[102]
File:Firefighters spray foam.jpg
Modern usage of fire fighting foam.
File:Oleg losev.jpg Oleg Losev
(1903–1942)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
light-emitting diode, crystadine
File:RBG-LED.jpg
Red, green and blue LEDs
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy
(1909–2001)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Buran (spacecraft), Spiral project[103][104]
File:Antonov An-225 with Buran at Le Bourget 1989 Manteufel.jpg
Buran carried by the An-225
Arkhip Lyulka
(1908–1984)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first double jet turbofan engine, other Soviet aircraft engines[105]
File:Saturn AL-31 FN 1.jpg
Saturn AL-31

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Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
orbitrap[106]
File:Orbitrappe.png
Ion trajectories in an Orbitrap
File:SO Makarov 01.jpg Stepan Makarov
(1849–1904)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Icebreaker Yermak, the first true icebreaker able to ride over and crush pack ice
File:Yermak icebreaker.jpg
Icebreaker Yermak on the Baltic Sea before 1917
File:Machno.jpg Nestor Makhno
(1888–1934)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
(Ukraine)
tachanka
Victor Makeev
(1924–1985)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first intercontinental submarine-launched ballistic missile
File:R-27 (SS-N-6) SLBM.jpg
Scheme of R-27 missile of Makeev
File:Dmitri Maxutow Leutnant.jpg Dmitri Maksutov
(1896–1964)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Maksutov telescope
File:Maksutov 150mm.jpg
Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope.
File:Sergey Malyutin.jpg Sergey Malyutin
(1859–1937)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(self-portrait)
matryoshka doll (together with craftsman Vasily Zvyozdochkin)[107]
File:First matryoshka museum doll open.jpg
Original matryoshka doll by Malyutin and Zvyozdochkin
Boris Mamyrin
(1919–2007)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
reflectron (ion mirror)[108]
File:Reflectron.jpg
Reflectron mass spectrometer
File:Ilya Mechnikov nobel.jpg Ilya Mechnikov
(1845–1916)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
probiotics
File:DIMendeleevCab.jpg Dmitri Mendeleev
(1834–1907)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Periodic table, a type of pycnometer, pyrocollodion, co-developer of Icebreaker Yermak, also credited with determining the ideal vodka proof as 38% (later rounded to 40%)[109]
File:Mendeleev Table 5th II.jpg
Periodic table from Mendeleev's book
File:Stamp of Armenia h331.jpg Artem Mikoyan
(1905–1970)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(Armenia)
(right on photo)
MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21 (together with Mikhail Gurevich)[68]
File:MiG-15 RB1.jpg
MiG-15
Alexander Mikulin
(1895–1985)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines, co-developer of the Tsar Tank[98][110]
File:AM-engine.jpg
Mikulin and his staff presenting Mikulin AM-34
Mikhail Mil
(1909–1970)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Mi-series helicopter aircraft, including Mil Mi-8 (the world's most-produced helicopter) and Mil Mi-12 (the world's largest helicopter)
File:Mi-8 Hip Roving Sands 99.jpg
Mil Mi-8
Pavel Molchanov
(1893–1941)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
radiosonde
Alexander Morozov
(1904–1979)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
T-54/55 (the most produced tank in history), co-developer of T-34[111][112]
File:T-55 skos RB.jpg
T-54/55 main battle tank
File:Mosin.jpg Sergei Mosin
(1849–1902)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Mosin–Nagant rifle, one of the most produced ever
File:Mosin-Nagant.jpg
Mosin–Nagants
Motorins,
Ivan Feodorovich
(1660s – 1735)
and his son
Mikhail Ivanovich
(?–1750)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Tsar Bell, the largest bell in the world[113]
File:Tsar Kolokol with humans for perspective.JPG
The Tsar Bell
File:1989 CPA 6077.jpg Vera Mukhina
(1889–1953)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
welded sculpture[114]
File:Russia-2000-stamp-Tatlin Tower and Worker and Kolkhoz Woman by Vera Mukhina.jpg
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, the first welded sculpture
Yevgeny Murzin
(1914–1970)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
ANS synthesizer
File:ANS Synthesiser, Glinka Museum.jpg
ANS synthesizer

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Alexander Nadiradze
(1914–1987)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
(born in Georgia)
First meteorological missile "M1-Meteo". First mobile ICBM (RT-21 Temp 2S), also RSD-10 Pioneer and (RT-2PM Topol)[115]
File:Moscow Parad 2008 Ballist.jpg
RT-2PM Topol
File:Nartov.jpg Andrey Nartov
(1683–1756)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first lathe with a mechanic cutting tool-supporting carriage and a set of gears, fast-fire battery on a rotating disc, screw mechanism for changing the artillery fire angle, gauge-boring lathe for cannon-making, early telescopic sight[116][117][118]
File:Lathe.PNG
An old lathe (b marks the carriage)
Sergey Nepobedimiy
(1921–2014)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
first supersonic anti-tank guided missile Sturm, other Soviet rocket weaponry[119]
File:Sa-7.jpg
Strela 2 surface-to-air missile
Nikolai Nikitin
(1907–1973)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
prestressed concrete with wire ropes structure (Ostankino Tower, The Motherland Calls), Nikitin-Travush 4000 project (precursor to X-Seed 4000)
File:224th Flight Unit Antonov An-124 over Moscow 6 May 2010.jpg
Ostankino Tower (on the left)
File:Ludvig Emmanuel Nobel,.jpg Ludvig Nobel
(1831–1888)
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first successful oil tanker[120]
File:Oil tanker Omala in Rotterdam.jpg
A modern oil tanker
File:Konstantin Novoselov at MIPT.jpg Konstantin Novoselov
(born 1974)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
graphene[60] (youngest Nobel Laureate since 1973)[121]
File:Graphen.jpg
Graphene

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File:Odhner.jpg Theophil Wilgodt Odhner
(1845–1903)
File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
the Odhner Arithmometer (a mechanical pinwheel calculator)
File:Odner-arithmometer.jpg
Odhner Arithmometer
Lucien Olivier
(1838–1883)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(Belgian or French origin)
Russian salad (Olivier salad)
File:Russian Olivier salad.jpg
Russian salad

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File:Alexey Pajitnov - 2575833305 (crop).jpg Alexey Pajitnov
(born 1956)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
Tetris[122]
File:Tetrominoes IJLO STZ Worlds.svg
Tetris figures
File:Ivan Pavlov (Nobel).png Ivan Pavlov
(1849–1936)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
classical conditioning[123]
File:One of Pavlov's dogs.jpg
One of the Pavlov’s dogs with an implanted cannula.
File:Vasily petrov.jpg Vasily Petrov
(1761–1834)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
continuous electric arc, arc welding[124]
File:Lichtbogen 3000 Volt.jpg
Electric arc
File:Ilya Repin Portrait of the Surgeon Nikolay Pirogov 1881.jpg Nikolay Pirogov
(1810–1881)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
early use of ether as anaesthetic, first anaesthesia in a field operation, various kinds of surgical operations
File:Diethyl ether.JPG
Diethyl ether
File:Pirotsky.jpg Fyodor Pirotsky
(1845–1898)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
electric tram
File:Sestroretsk miller rail.jpg
Miller's line where Pirotsky's tram was tested
Ivan Plotnikov
(1902–1995)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
kirza leather[125]
File:Кирзовые сапоги российского солдата.jpg
Kirza boots.
Nikolai Polikarpov
(1892–1944)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Po-series aircraft, including Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik (world's most produced biplane)
File:Po-2.jpg
Polikarpov Po-2
Ivan Polzunov
(1728–1766)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first two-cylinder steam engine
File:Polzunov5 7m.jpg
Polzunov's steam engine
File:Pomortsev.jpg Mikhail Pomortsev
(1851–1916)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
nephoscope
File:Cloud types.svg
Nephoscope measures the parameters of clouds
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg Alexander Popov
(1859–1906)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
built an early radio receiver in the form of a lightning detector, eastern European countries claim he is the "inventor of radio"
File:1989 CPA 6117.jpg
Popov and his radio
Nikolay Popov
(1931–2008)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
first fully gas turbine main battle tank (T-80)[126]
File:T-80 in Saint-Petersburg.jpg
T-80 main battle tank
File:Porokhovschikov.jpg Aleksandr Porokhovschikov
(1892 – c. 1942)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Vezdekhod (the first prototype tank, or tankette, and the first continuous track amphibious ATV)[127]
File:Vezdekhod.jpg
Vezdekhod tank in 1915
File:Major Alexander Procofieff de Seversky sits at the controls of an early aircraft, circa 1914.jpg Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
(1894–1974)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
ionocraft, first gyroscopically stabilized bombsight, also developed air-to-air refueling
File:S-3 Viking in-flight refueling.jpg
Modern air-to-air refueling
File:Aleksandr Prokhorov.jpg Alexander Prokhorov
(1916–2002)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
co-inventor of laser and maser
File:Laser play.jpg
Laser beams
File:Petro prokopovich.jpg Petro Prokopovych
(1775–1850)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(Ukraine)
beehive frame, queen excluder and other beekeeping novelties
File:Voll Honig.JPG
A shallow super frame filled with honey
File:Sergei-Prokudin-Gorski-Larg.jpg Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
(1863–1944)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
early colour photography method based on three colour channels, also colour film slides and colour motion pictures
File:Alleia Hamerops composite.jpg
Prokudin-Gorsky's method

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File:Ramzin.JPG Leonid Ramzin
(1887–1948)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
straight-flow boiler (Ramzin boiler)[128]
File:Peter der-Grosse 1838.jpg Peter I of Russia (Romanov)
(1672–1725)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
decimal currency, yacht club, sounding line with separating plummet (sounding weight probe)[129][130][131]
File:Mesure du fond avec la sonde sur une frégate-Morel Fatio-img 3163.jpg
Sounding line throwing
Ida Rosenthal
(1886–1973)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
(born in Belarus, Jewish descent)
modern brassiere (Maidenform), the standard of cup sizes, nursing bra, full-figured bra, the first seamed uplift bra (all with her husband William)[132][133][134]
File:Buestenhalter-2.jpg
A modern brassiere
File:Boris Rozing.jpg Boris Rosing
(1869–1933)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
CRT television (first TV system using cathode ray tube on the receiving side)[135][136]
File:CRT Television Screen.jpg
A modern cathode ray tube
Eugene Roshal
(born 1972)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver[137]
File:FAR manager.png
FAR Manager screenshot

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Alexander Sablukov
(1783–1857)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
centrifugal fan[138]
File:CentrifugalFan.png
Components of a centrifugal fan
Andrei Sakharov
(1921–1989)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
explosively pumped flux compression generator, co-developer of the Tsar Bomb, co-developer of tokamak
File:Flux compression generator 1.png
Hollow tube generator
File:Franz San Galli.jpg Franz San Galli
(1824–1908)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(Italian and German descent, born in Poland)
radiator, modern central heating[139][140]
File:Household radiator.jpg
A household radiator
File:Pavel Shilling.jpg Pavel Schilling
(1780–1836)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(Estonia)
shielded cable, electric mine and electromagnetic telegraph[141]
File:Cooke and Wheatstone electric telegraph.jpg
Cooke and Wheatstone's telegraph, inspired by Schilling's one
File:Severin Guy Illich.png Guy Severin
(1926–2008)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
extra-vehicular activity supporting system[142]
Leonty Shamshurenkov
(1687–1758)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
a device for lifting the Tsar Bell, the first self-propelling carriage (a precursor to both bicycle and automobile), projects of an original odometer and self-propelling sledge[95][143]
File:Shamshurenkov carriage.jpg
A reconstruction of Shamshurenkov's self-running carriage
File:Pyotr Shilovsky.png Pyotr Shilovsky
(1871 – after 1924)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
gyrocar[144]
File:The Russian two-wheel car in London. 1914.jpg
Shilovsky's gyrocar in 1914, London
File:Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov 1891.jpg Vladimir Shukhov
(1853–1939)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
thermal cracking (Shukhov cracking process), thin-shell structure, tensile structure, hyperboloid structure, gridshell, modern oil pipeline, cylindric oil depot[145]
File:Shukhov tower shabolovka moscow 02.jpg
Shukhov Tower in Moscow
File:Chouvaloff.jpg Pyotr Shuvalov
(1711–1762)
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
invented canister shot mortar, introduced licorne into wide usage
File:Полевая секретная гаубица образца 1753 системы П. И. Шувалова.jpg
A "secret" canister shot mortar
File:Sikorsky, Igor.jpg Igor Sikorsky
(1889–1972)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
first four-engine fixed-wing aircraft (Russky Vityaz), first airliner and purpose-designed bomber (Ilya Muromets), modern helicopter, Sikorsky-series helicopters
File:Sikorsky Skycrane carrying house bw.jpg
Sikorsky Skycrane carrying a house
Vladimir Simonov
(1935–2020)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
APS Underwater Assault Rifle, SPP-1 underwater pistol[146][147]
File:APS underwater rifle REMOV.jpg
APS Underwater Assault Rifle
File:Nikolay Slavyanov.gif Nikolay Slavyanov
(1854–1897)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
shielded metal arc welding[148]
File:SMAW.welding.navy.ncs.jpg
Shielded metal arc welding
Alexander Smakula
(1900–1983)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
(Ukraine)
anti-reflective coating
Yefim Smolin
Tsardom of Russia
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
table-glass (stakan granyonyi)[149]
File:Стакан.jpg
A classic table-glass
File:Igor Spassky.gif Igor Spassky
(1926–2024)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Sea Launch platform and over 200 nuclear submarines, including the world's largest submarines of Typhoon class
File:SeaLaunch-Odyssey.jpg
Sea Launch platform Ocean Odyssey
File:Starevich 1.jpg Ladislas Starevich
(1882–1965)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
(Polish descent)
puppet animation, live-action/animated film[150][151]
File:Cameraman's revenge.JPG
Scene from The Cameraman's Revenge animation (1911)
Boris Stechkin
(1891–1969)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
co-developer of Sikorsky Ilya Muromets and Lebedenko's Tsar Tank, developer of many Soviet heat and aircraft engines[98][152]
File:Самолет "Илья Муромец".jpg
Sikorsky Ilya Muromets
File:Alexander stoletov.jpg Aleksandr Stoletov
(1839–1896)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
first solar cell based on the outer photoelectric effect
File:4inch poly solar cell.jpg
A modern solar cell
Pavel Sukhoi
(1895–1975)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Su-series fighter aircraft
Andrei Sychra
(1773/76–1850)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(born in Lithuania, Czech ancestry)
Russian seven-string guitar
File:Seven-string-guitar.jpg
Russian guitar
Vladimir Syromyatnikov
(1933–2006)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
Androgynous Peripheral Attach System and other spacecraft docking mechanisms
File:APAS-75 docking system drawing.png
The original APAS-75 docking unit draw

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Andrey Ternovskiy
(born 1992)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
creator of Chatroulette, the first random webcam chat website
File:Leon Theremin.jpg Léon Theremin
(1896–1993)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
theremin, burglar alarm, terpsitone, Rhythmicon (first drum machine), The Thing (listening device)
File:Etherwave Theremin Kit.jpg
Etherwave Theremin
Andrey Tikhonov
(1906–1993)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
magnetotellurics
File:LEMI405.jpg
Magnetotelluric station
Mikhail Tikhonravov
(1900–1974)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Keldysh, designer of further Sputniks
File:Sputnik asm.jpg
Sputnik 1 replica
Gavriil Tikhov
(1875–1960)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
feathering spectrograph
File:Spectrometer schematic.gif
Scheme of a spectrograph work
Fedor Tokarev
(1871–1968)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle (main Soviet guns of World War II)
File:USSROfficerTT33.JPG
A Soviet soldier with TT-33
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
(1857–1935)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
spaceflight (theory principles that led to numerous inventions, derived the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation)
File:Tsiolkovsky Album 44.jpg
Tsiolkovsky's drawings of astronaut in space
File:Tswett 01.jpg Mikhail Tsvet
(1872–1919)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
chromatography (specifically adsorption chromatography, the first chromatography method)
File:Gas chromatograph.jpg
A modern gas chromatography system
Alexei Tupolev
(1925–2001)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
the Tupolev Tu-144 (first supersonic passenger jet)
File:Tu-144LL.jpg
Tupolev Tu-144
File:The Soviet Union 1988 CPA 5994 stamp (Birth centenary of Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aeronautical engineer known for his pioneering aircraft designs as Director of Tupolev Design Bureau).jpg Andrei Tupolev
(1888–1972)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
turboprop powered long-range airliner (Tupolev Tu-114), turboprop strategic bomber (Tupolev Tu-95)
File:Tupolev Tu-95 Marina.jpg
Tupolev Tu-95

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Vladimir Utkin
(1923–2000)
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Federation
railcar-launched ICBM (RT-23 Molodets), other Soviet rockets[153]
File:RT-23 ICBM complex in Saint Petersburg museum.jpg
RT-23 in the St Petersburg railway museum

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Vladimir Vakhmistrov
(1897–1972)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
first bomber with a parasite aircraft (Zveno project)
File:Автопортрет. 1868.jpg Viktor Vasnetsov
(1848–1926)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
budenovka military hat
Vladimir Veksler
(1907–1966)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
synchrophasotron, co-inventor of synchrotron[34][154]
File:Schéma de principe du synchrotron.jpg
A modern synchrotron scheme

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File:Paul Walden.jpg Paul Walden
(1863–1957)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
(born in Latvia, Baltic German descent)
Walden inversion, Ethylammonium nitrate (the first room temperature ionic liquid)
File:Ethylammonium nitrate.png
Ethylammonium nitrate formula

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File:Yablochkov 1.jpg Pavel Yablochkov
(1847–1894)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Yablochkov candle (first commercially viable electric carbon arc lamp)
File:Yablochkov candles illuminating Avenue de l'Opera ca1878.jpg
Yablochkov demonstrates his illumination in Paris, 1878
Alexander Yakovlev
(1906–1989)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
Yak-series aircraft, including Yakovlev Yak-40 (the first regional jet)
File:Aeroflot Yakovlev Yak-40 in Sweden.jpg
Yakovlev Yak-40
File:Yurkevich Normandia Model.jpg Vladimir Yourkevitch
(1885–1964)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
modern ship hull design
File:SS Normandie postcard.jpg
SS Normandie
Sergei Yudin
(1891–1954)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
cadaveric blood transfusion and other medical operations[155]
File:Direct-blood-transfusion.jpg
World War II syringe for blood transfusion

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File:1908-kl-t-zamenhof.jpg Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof
(1859–1917)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
(Poland)
Esperanto language
File:Flag of Esperanto.svg
Flag of Esperanto
File:Zavoisky.JPG Yevgeny Zavoisky
(1907–1976)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
EPR spectroscopy, co-developer of NMR spectroscopy[156]
File:EPR methyl.png
Simulated EPR spectrum of the CH3 radical.
Nikolay Zelinsky
(1861–1953)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world
File:Russian gas mask ПМК-2.jpg
A modern Russian gas mask
File:NikolaiYegorovichZhukovsky.jpg Nikolai Zhukovsky
(1847–1921)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
Template:Country data Russian SFSR
an early wind tunnel, co-developer of the Tsar Tank[98][157]
File:MD-11 12ft Wind Tunnel Test.jpg
A modern wind tunnel
File:Zworykin docgrab.jpg Vladimir Zvorykin
(1889–1982)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States
pioneer of television technology Iconoscope, kinescope
File:Zworykin1931iconoscope.png
Zworykin's draft of a UV-microscope, similar to iconoscope
File:Zvyozdochkin.jpg Vasily Zvyozdochkin
(1876–1956)
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russian Empire
File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union
matryoshka doll (together with painter Sergey Malyutin)[158]
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Matryoshka doll taken apart

See also

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