Category
page 1Inventors from the Russian Empire
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
Pyotr Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Russian physicist
Peter Carl Fabergé
Russian jeweller (1846–1920)
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)
Nikolai Pirogov
Russian medical scientist (1810-1881)
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician (1821–1894)
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian neurologist
Pavel Florensky
Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr (1882–1937)
Abram Ioffe
Soviet physicist (1880–1960)
Nikolay Zhukovsky
Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics
Alexander Bogdanov
Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
Vladimir K. Zworykin
Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)
Vladimir Markovnikov
Russian chemist
Alexander Butlerov
Russian chemist (1828-1886)
Vasili Dokuchayev
Russian soil scientist (1846-1903)
Waldemar Haffkine
bacteriologist (1856–1930)
Stepan Makarov
Russian admiral
Vladimir Shukhov
Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect (1853-1939)
Kliment Timiryazev
Russian biologist (1843-1920)
Mikhail Tsvet
Russian-Italian botanist (1872-1919)
Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke
Baltic German admiral (1797–1882)
Moritz von Jacobi
German engineer and physicist (1801–1874)
Paul Walden
Baltic German chemist (1863-1957)
Nikolai Kibalchich
Ukrainian revolutionary and scientist (1853-1881)
Aleksey Krylov
Russian naval engineer and mathematician (1863-1945)
Pavel Yablochkov
Russian engineer (1847–1894)
Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev
Russian chemist (1841–1910)
Franz Aepinus
German-Russian mathematician (1724-1802)
Vladimir Steklov
Russian mathematician (1863–1926)
Ludvig Nobel
Swedish businessman, humanitarian (1831–1888)
Immanuel Nobel
Swedish architect, engineer, inventor and industrialist (1801-1872)
Fedor Tokarev
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1871-1968)
Nikolai Burdenko
Russian and Soviet surgeon, founder of Russian neurosurgery (1876-1946)
Vladimir Odoevsky
Russian writer and philosopher (1803–1869)
Yevgraf Fyodorov
Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist
Georg Wilhelm Richmann
Baltic German physicist (1711-1753)
Aleksandr Stoletov
Russian physicist (1839–1896)
Boris Rosing
Russian television pioneer (1869–1933)
Alexander Lodygin
Russian noble (1847-1923)
Viktor Bunyakovsky
Russian mathematician (1804-1889)
Boris Galitzine
Russian geologist (1862–1916)
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Russian Major General, designer of the famous Mosin-Nagant rifle (1849-1902)
Bruno Abakanowicz
Polish mathematician (1852-1900)
Nikolay Sklifosovsky
Russian physiologist (1836–1904)
Pavel Schilling
Russian inventor of Baltic German origin (1786-1837)
Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1874-1966)
Nikolay Beketov
Russian chemist (1827–1911)
Aleksandr Arbuzov
Russian chemist (1877-1968)
Nikolai Menshutkin
Russian chemist (1842-1907)
Jacob W. Davis
American tailor (1831–1908)
Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvov
Russian artist and architect (1753-1804)
Alexandre Alexeieff
artist, filmmaker, illustrator (1901-1982)
Vladimir Petrovich Filatov
Russian ophthalmologist (1875-1956)
Luka (Voyno-Yasenetsky)
Russian saint and surgeon (1877-1961)
Ivan Polzunov
Russian inventor
Nikolai Korotkov
Russian surgeon
Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev
Russian chemist (1873–1922)