List of Russian inventors

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[edit]

A[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Bruno Abakanowicz
(1852–1900)
 Russian Empire
 France
(Poland/Lithuania origin)
Integraph, spirograph, parabolagraph[1]
Spirograph designs
Valerian Abakovsky
(1895–1921)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Latvia
aerowagon[2]
Vitaly Abalakov
(1906–1986)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
camming devices, Abalakov thread (V-thread) gearless ice climbing anchor[3][4]
Spring-loaded camming device
Evgeny Abramyan
(1930–2014)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
 Georgia
halyard for the first extra-vehicular activity
Space suit worn by Leonov during the first EVA
Vsevolod Abramovich
(1890–1913)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Abramovich Flyer
Hovannes Adamian
(1879–1932)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
(Armenia/Azerbaijan/Germany)
tricolor principle of the color television[5]
RGB color model
Franz Aepinus
(1724–1802)
 Holy Roman Empire
 Russian Empire
achromatic microscope
Georgy Adelson-Velsky
(1922–2014)
 Soviet Union
 Russia
 Israel
AVL tree datastructure, Kaissa (the first World Computer Chess Champion)
AVL Tree
Anatoly Alexandrov
(1903–1994)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
anti-mine demagnetising of ships, naval nuclear reactors (including one for the first nuclear icebreaker)[6][7]
Lenin, the first nuclear icebreaker
Alexandre Alexeieff
(1901–1982)
 Russian Empire
 France
pinscreen animation (with his wife Claire Parker)[8]
Pin Art
Rostislav Alexeyev
(1916–1980)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
ekranoplan, Soviet high-speed hydrofoils[9][10]
A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplan.
Zhores Alferov
(1930–2019)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
heterotransistor (with Herbert Kroemer), continuous-wave-operating diode laser (with Dmitri Garbuzov)[11][12]
Laser diode array
Genrich Altshuller
(1926–1998)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
TRIZ ("The Theory of Solving Inventor's Problems")[13]
Structure of TRIZ
Vasily Andreyev
(1861–1918)
 Russian Empire
standard balalaika[14][15]
A souvenir balalaika
Oleg Antonov
(1906–1984)
 Russian Empire
 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]
An-124-100
Lev Artsimovich
(1909–1973)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first tokamak[17]
Tokamak scheme

B[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Georgy Babakin
(1914–1971)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first soft landing space vehicle (Luna 9)[18]
Boris Babayan
(born 1933)
 Soviet Union
 Russia
Elbrus computer
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine
(1888–1944)
 Russian Empire
 France
(Ukraine)
(self-portrait)
Optophonic Piano, pointillist or dynamic military camouflage[19]
A modern Canadian digital camouflage
Vladimir Barmin
(1909–1993)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
first rocket launch complex (Baikonur spaceport)[20]
Baikonur spaceport souvenir
Nikolay Basov
(1922–2001)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
co-inventor of laser and maser[21]
Laser beams
Ernest Beaux
(1881–1961)
 Russian Empire
 France
Chanel No. 5[22]
Chanel No. 5.
Vladimir Bekhterev
(1857–1927)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Bekhterev’s Mixture (a medicine with a sedative effect)[23]
Sodium bromide, a part of Bekhterev’s Mixture
Nikolay Benardos
(1842–1905)
 Russian Empire
arc welding (specifically carbon arc welding, the first arc welding method)[24]
The first arc welding method, Electro Hephaestus
Alexander Bereznyak
(1912–1974)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
(left on photo)
first rocket-powered fighter aircraft, BI-1 (together with Isaev)[25]
BI-1
Georgy Beriev
(1903–1979)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
(Georgian origin)
Be-series amphibious aircraft[citation needed]
Beriev Be-12 Chayka
Fyodor Blinov
(1827–1902)
 Russian Empire
first tracked vehicle (a wagon on continuous tracks), steam-powered caterpillar tractor[26][27]
Blinov's caterpillar steam tractor
Sam Born (1891–1959)
 Russian Empire
 United States
lollipop-making machine[28]
A particularly large lollipop
Georgy Bothezat
(1882–1940)
 Russian Empire
 United States
quadrotor helicopter (The Flying Octopus)[29]
De Bothezat's quadrotor helicopter.
Sergey Brin
(born 1973)
 Soviet Union
 United States
with Larry Page, invented Google web search engine[30]
Google Search logo
Mikhail Britnev
(1822–1889)
 Russian Empire
first metal-hull icebreaker (Pilot)[31]
Icebreaker Pilot on a postage stamp
Nikolay Brusentsov
(1925–2014)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
ternary computer (Setun)[32]
Gersh Budker
(1918–1977)
 Soviet Union
electron cooling, co-inventor of collider[33][34]
Electron beam
Aleksandr Butlerov
(1828–1886)
 Russian Empire
hexamine, formaldehyde, formose reaction (the synthesis of sugar)[35]
Formaldehyde formula

C[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Vladimir Chelomey
(1914–1984)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first space station (Salyut 1), further space stations of Salyut series, Proton rocket (the most used heavy lift launch system)[36]
Pavel Cherenkov
(1904–1990)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Cherenkov detector[37]
Cherenkov radiation
Evgeniy Chertovsky
(1902–?)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
pressure suit[38]
Pressure suit
Alexander Chizhevsky
(1897–1964)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
air ionizer (Chizhevsky's chandelier)[39]
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]
The Tsar Cannon

D[edit]

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

E[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Ivan Elmanov
 Russian Empire
first monorail (the so-called "Road on Pillars" near Moscow, with horse-drawn carriages)[48]
Modern Moscow monorail

F[edit]

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

G[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Yakov Modestovich Gakkel
(1874–1945)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first Russian-made aircraft and diesel locomotives[54]
The Gakkel-VII
Boris Borisovich Galitzine
(1862–1916)
 Russian Empire
electromagnetic seismograph[55]
An electric seismograph
Dmitri Garbuzov
(1940–2006)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
 United States
continuous-wave-operating diode lasers (together with Zhores Alferov), high-power diode lasers[56]
Laser diode array
Georgy Gause
(1910–1986)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin and other antibiotics[57]
Gramicidin S formula
E. K. Gauzen
 Russian Empire
three bolt equipment (early diving costume)[58][59]
A Soviet diving helmet
Andrey Geim
(born 1958)
 Soviet Union
 United Kingdom
graphene[60]
Graphene
Nestor Genko
(1839–1904)
 Russian Empire
Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak system)[61]
Valentyn Glushko
(1908–1989)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Soviet rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170)[62]
RD-170 rocket engine model
Leonid Gobyato
(1875–1915)
 Russian Empire
first modern man-portable mortar[63]
Gobyato's mortar
Igor Gorynin
(1926–2015)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
weldable titanium alloys, high strength aluminium alloys, radiation-hardened steels[64][65]
Titanium
Boris Grabovsky
(1901–1966)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
cathode commutator, an early electronic TV pickup tube[66][67]
A modern cathode ray tube
Mikhail Gurevich
(1893–1976)
 Russian Empire
 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]
MiG-21

H[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Waldemar Haffkine
(1860–1930)
 Russian Empire
  Switzerland
developed and used first vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague[69][70]
An injection of anti-plague vaccine

I[edit]

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

J[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Boris Jacobi
(1801–1874)
 Prussia
 Russian Empire
electrotyping (an application of electroplating to typography), electric boat[78]
Early electroplating

K[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Mikhail Kalashnikov
(1919–2013)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
AK-47 and AK-74 assault rifles (produced more than all other types of assault rifles combined)[79]
AK-47
Nikolay Kamov
(1902–1973)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
armored military autogyro, Ka-series coaxial rotor helicopters[80]
Pyotr Kapitsa
(1894–1984)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
(left on portrait by Boris Kustodiev, with Nikolay Semyonov right)
first ultrastrong magnetic field creating techniques, basic low-temperature physics inventions[81]
The liquid helium in the superfluid phase
Georgii Karpechenko
(1899–1941)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
rabbage (the first ever non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding)[82][83]
Radish and cabbage
Eugene Kaspersky
(born 1965)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Mobile Security anti-virus products[84]
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Logo
Adolphe Kégresse
(1879–1943)
 France
 Russian Empire
Kégresse track (first half-track and first off-road vehicle with continuous track), dual-clutch transmission[85]
Nicholas II Packard Twin-6 with Kégresse track
Alexander Kemurdzhian
(1921–2003)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
first space exploration rover (Lunokhod)
Yulii Khariton
(1904–1996)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
chief designer of the Soviet atomic bomb, co-developer of the Tsar Bomba
Anatoly Kharlampiyev
(1906–1979)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Sambo (martial art)[86]
Konstantin Khrenov
(1894–1984)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
underwater welding[citation needed]
A modern underwater welding
Nikolai Kibalchich
(1853–1881)
 Russian Empire
pioneer of rocketry[87]
A Soyuz-U, at Baikonur Site 1/5
Semyon Kirlian
(1898–1978)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Kirlian photography
Kirlian photo of two coins
Konstantin Konstantinov
(1817/19–1871)
 Russian Empire
device for measuring flight speed of projectiles, ballistic rocket pendulum, launch pad, rocket-making machine[88]
Trajectory of a bullet
Sergei Korolev
(1907–1966)
 Russian Empire
 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)
Vostok spacecraft model
Nikolai Korotkov
(1874–1920)
 Russian Empire
auscultatory technique for blood pressure measurement
Aneroid sphygmomanometer with stethoscope
Semyon Korsakov
(1787–1853)
 Russian Empire
punched card for information storage
Korsakov's linear homeoscope
Mikhail Koshkin
(1898–1940)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
T-34 medium tank, the most produced tank of World War II[89]
T-34
Ogneslav Stepanovich Kostovich
(1851–1916)
 Serbia
 Russian Empire
arborite (high-strength plywood)[90][91]
Plywood
Gleb Kotelnikov
(1872–1944)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
knapsack parachute, drogue parachute[92][93]
A modern knapsack parachute packed
Aleksey Krylov
(1863–1945)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
gyroscopic damping of ships
Gyroscope
Ivan Kulibin
(1735–1818)
 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]
Kulibin's project of the one-arch bridge over Neva River.
Igor Kurchatov
(1903–1960)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first nuclear power plant, first nuclear reactors for submarines and surface ships
Obninsk nuclear plant

L[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Dmitry Lachinov
(1842–1902)
 Russian Empire
mercury pump, economizer for electricity consumption, electrical insulation tester, optical dynamometer, photometer, electrolyser[97]
The details of electrical insulation tester depicted in a Lachinov's book
Semyon Lavochkin
(1900–1960)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
La-series aircraft, the first operational surface-to-air missile S-25 Berkut
Lavochkin La-7
Nikolai Lebedenko
 Russian Empire
Tsar Tank, the largest armored vehicle in history[98]
Tsar Tank
Sergei Lebedev
(1874–1934)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
commercially viable synthetic rubber
Synthetic rubber making
Lisitsyns,
Ivan Fyodorovich
and his brother
Nazar Fyodorovich
 Russian Empire
Russian samovar[99]
A typical samovar
Alexander Lodygin
(1847–1923)
 Russian Empire
 United States
electrical filament, incandescent light bulb with tungsten filament
Lodygin's lamp draw
Mikhail Lomonosov
(1711–1765)
Tsardom of Russia
 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]
Lomonosov's drawings for his discovery of Venus atmosphere
Yury Lomonosov
(1876–1952)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 United Kingdom
first successful mainline diesel locomotive[101]
The Юэ 001 locomotive
Aleksandr Loran
(1849 – after 1911)
 Russian Empire
fire fighting foam, foam extinguisher[102]
Modern usage of fire fighting foam.
Oleg Losev
(1903–1942)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
light-emitting diode, crystadine
Red, green and blue LEDs
Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy
(1909–2001)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
Buran (spacecraft), Spiral project[103][104]
Buran carried by the An-225
Arkhip Lyulka
(1908–1984)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first double jet turbofan engine, other Soviet aircraft engines[105]
Saturn AL-31

M[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Aleksandr Makarov (born 1966)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
 Germany
orbitrap[106]
Ion trajectories in an Orbitrap
Stepan Makarov
(1849–1904)
 Russian Empire
Icebreaker Yermak, the first true icebreaker able to ride over and crush pack ice
Icebreaker Yermak on the Baltic Sea before 1917
Nestor Makhno
(1888–1934)
 Russian Empire
 France
(Ukraine)
tachanka
Victor Makeev
(1924–1985)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first intercontinental submarine-launched ballistic missile
Scheme of R-27 missile of Makeev
Dmitri Maksutov
(1896–1964)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Maksutov telescope
Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope.
Sergey Malyutin
(1859–1937)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
(self-portrait)
matryoshka doll (together with craftsman Vasily Zvyozdochkin)[107]
Original matryoshka doll by Malyutin and Zvyozdochkin
Boris Mamyrin
(1919–2007)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
reflectron (ion mirror)[108]
Reflectron mass spectrometer
Ilya Mechnikov
(1845–1916)
 Russian Empire
 France
probiotics
Dmitri Mendeleev
(1834–1907)
 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]
Periodic table from Mendeleev's book
Artem Mikoyan
(1905–1970)
 Russian Empire
 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]
MiG-15
Alexander Mikulin
(1895–1985)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Mikulin AM-34 and other Soviet aircraft engines, co-developer of the Tsar Tank[98][110]
Mikulin and his staff presenting Mikulin AM-34
Mikhail Mil
(1909–1970)
 Russian Empire
 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)
Mil Mi-8
Pavel Molchanov
(1893–1941)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
radiosonde
Alexander Morozov
(1904–1979)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
T-54/55 (the most produced tank in history), co-developer of T-34[111][112]
T-54/55 main battle tank
Sergei Mosin
(1849–1902)
 Russian Empire
Mosin–Nagant rifle, one of the most produced ever
Mosin–Nagants
Motorins,
Ivan Feodorovich
(1660s – 1735)
and his son
Mikhail Ivanovich
(?–1750)
Tsardom of Russia
 Russian Empire
Tsar Bell, the largest bell in the world[113]
The Tsar Bell
Vera Mukhina
(1889–1953)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
welded sculpture[114]
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, the first welded sculpture
Yevgeny Murzin
(1914–1970)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
ANS synthesizer
ANS synthesizer

N[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Alexander Nadiradze
(1914–1987)
 Russian Empire
 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]
RT-2PM Topol
Andrey Nartov
(1683–1756)
Tsardom of Russia
 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]
An old lathe (b marks the carriage)
Sergey Nepobedimiy
(1921–2014)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
first supersonic anti-tank guided missile Sturm, other Soviet rocket weaponry[119]
Strela 2 surface-to-air missile
Nikolai Nikitin
(1907–1973)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
prestressed concrete with wire ropes structure (Ostankino Tower, The Motherland Calls), Nikitin-Travush 4000 project (precursor to X-Seed 4000)
Ostankino Tower (on the left)
Ludvig Nobel
(1831–1888)
 Sweden
 Russian Empire
first successful oil tanker[120]
A modern oil tanker
Konstantin Novoselov
(born 1974)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
 United Kingdom
graphene[60] (youngest Nobel Laureate since 1973)[121]
Graphene

O[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Theophil Wilgodt Odhner
(1845–1903)
 Sweden
 Russian Empire
the Odhner Arithmometer (a mechanical pinwheel calculator)
Odhner Arithmometer
Lucien Olivier
(1838–1883)
 Russian Empire
(Belgian or French origin)
Russian salad (Olivier salad)
Russian salad

P[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Alexey Pajitnov
(born 1956)
 Soviet Union
 United States
Tetris[122]
Tetris figures
Ivan Pavlov
(1849–1936)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
classical conditioning[123]
One of the Pavlov’s dogs with an implanted cannula.
Vasily Petrov
(1761–1834)
 Russian Empire
continuous electric arc, arc welding[124]
Electric arc
Nikolay Pirogov
(1810–1881)
 Russian Empire
early use of ether as anaesthetic, first anaesthesia in a field operation, various kinds of surgical operations
Diethyl ether
Fyodor Pirotsky
(1845–1898)
 Russian Empire
electric tram
Miller's line where Pirotsky's tram was tested
Ivan Plotnikov
(1902–1995)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
kirza leather[125]
Kirza boots.
Nikolai Polikarpov
(1892–1944)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Po-series aircraft, including Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik (world's most produced biplane)
Polikarpov Po-2
Ivan Polzunov
(1728–1766)
 Russian Empire
first two-cylinder steam engine
Polzunov's steam engine
Mikhail Pomortsev
(1851–1916)
 Russian Empire
nephoscope
Nephoscope measures the parameters of clouds
Alexander Popov
(1859–1906)
 Russian Empire
built an early radio receiver in the form of a lightning detector, eastern European countries claim he is the "inventor of radio"
Popov and his radio
Nikolay Popov
(1931–2008)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
first fully gas turbine main battle tank (T-80)[126]
T-80 main battle tank
Aleksandr Porokhovschikov
(1892 – c. 1942)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Vezdekhod (the first prototype tank, or tankette, and the first continuous track amphibious ATV)[127]
Vezdekhod tank in 1915
Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
(1894–1974)
 Russian Empire
 United States
ionocraft, first gyroscopically stabilized bombsight, also developed air-to-air refueling
Modern air-to-air refueling
Alexander Prokhorov
(1916–2002)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
co-inventor of laser and maser
Laser beams
Petro Prokopovych
(1775–1850)
 Russian Empire
(Ukraine)
beehive frame, queen excluder and other beekeeping novelties
A shallow super frame filled with honey
Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
(1863–1944)
 Russian Empire
 France
early colour photography method based on three colour channels, also colour film slides and colour motion pictures
Prokudin-Gorsky's method

R[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Leonid Ramzin
(1887–1948)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
straight-flow boiler (Ramzin boiler)[128]
Peter I of Russia (Romanov)
(1672–1725)
Tsardom of Russia
 Russian Empire
decimal currency, yacht club, sounding line with separating plummet (sounding weight probe)[129][130][131]
Sounding line throwing
Ida Rosenthal
(1886–1973)
 Russian Empire
 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]
A modern brassiere
Boris Rosing
(1869–1933)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
CRT television (first TV system using cathode ray tube on the receiving side)[135][136]
A modern cathode ray tube
Eugene Roshal
(born 1972)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file archiver[137]
FAR Manager screenshot

S[edit]

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

T[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Andrey Ternovskiy
(born 1992)
 Russian Federation
creator of Chatroulette, the first random webcam chat website
Léon Theremin
(1896–1993)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 United States
 Russian Federation
theremin, burglar alarm, terpsitone, Rhythmicon (first drum machine), The Thing (listening device)
Etherwave Theremin
Andrey Tikhonov
(1906–1993)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
magnetotellurics
Magnetotelluric station
Mikhail Tikhonravov
(1900–1974)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Keldysh, designer of further Sputniks
Sputnik 1 replica
Gavriil Tikhov
(1875–1960)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
feathering spectrograph
Scheme of a spectrograph work
Fedor Tokarev
(1871–1968)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle (main Soviet guns of World War II)
A Soviet soldier with TT-33
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
(1857–1935)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
spaceflight (theory principles that led to numerous inventions, derived the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation)
Tsiolkovsky's drawings of astronaut in space
Mikhail Tsvet
(1872–1919)
 Russian Empire
chromatography (specifically adsorption chromatography, the first chromatography method)
A modern gas chromatography system
Alexei Tupolev
(1925–2001)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
the Tupolev Tu-144 (first supersonic passenger jet)
Tupolev Tu-144
Andrei Tupolev
(1888–1972)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
turboprop powered long-range airliner (Tupolev Tu-114), turboprop strategic bomber (Tupolev Tu-95)
Tupolev Tu-95

U[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Vladimir Utkin
(1923–2000)
 Soviet Union
 Russian Federation
railcar-launched ICBM (RT-23 Molodets), other Soviet rockets[153]
RT-23 in the St Petersburg railway museum

V[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Vladimir Vakhmistrov
(1897–1972)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
first bomber with a parasite aircraft (Zveno project)
Viktor Vasnetsov
(1848–1926)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
budenovka military hat
Vladimir Veksler
(1907–1966)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
synchrophasotron, co-inventor of synchrotron[34][154]
A modern synchrotron scheme

W[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Paul Walden
(1863–1957)
 Russian Empire
 Germany
(born in Latvia, Baltic German descent)
Walden inversion, Ethylammonium nitrate (the first room temperature ionic liquid)
Ethylammonium nitrate formula

Y[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Pavel Yablochkov
(1847–1894)
 Russian Empire
Yablochkov candle (first commercially viable electric carbon arc lamp)
Yablochkov demonstrates his illumination in Paris, 1878
Alexander Yakovlev
(1906–1989)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
Yak-series aircraft, including Yakovlev Yak-40 (the first regional jet)
Yakovlev Yak-40
Vladimir Yourkevitch
(1885–1964)
 Russian Empire
 France
 United States
modern ship hull design
SS Normandie
Sergei Yudin
(1891–1954)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
cadaveric blood transfusion and other medical operations[155]
World War II syringe for blood transfusion

Z[edit]

Portrait Person Inventions Image
Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof
(1859–1917)
 Russian Empire
(Poland)
Esperanto language
Flag of Esperanto
Yevgeny Zavoisky
(1907–1976)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
EPR spectroscopy, co-developer of NMR spectroscopy[156]
Simulated EPR spectrum of the CH3 radical.
Nikolay Zelinsky
(1861–1953)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
the first effective filtering activated charcoal gas mask in the world
A modern Russian gas mask
Nikolai Zhukovsky
(1847–1921)
 Russian Empire
 Russian SFSR
an early wind tunnel, co-developer of the Tsar Tank[98][157]
A modern wind tunnel
Vladimir Zvorykin
(1889–1982)
 Russian Empire
 United States
pioneer of television technology Iconoscope, kinescope
Zworykin's draft of a UV-microscope, similar to iconoscope
Vasily Zvyozdochkin
(1876–1956)
 Russian Empire
 Soviet Union
matryoshka doll (together with painter Sergey Malyutin)[158]
Matryoshka doll taken apart

See also[edit]

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