Science and technology in Russia

The State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos", commonly known simply as Roscosmos (), is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research.

Russian viral vector vaccine based on human adenovirus

thumb|300px|"Evening Party" by Vladimir Makovsky (1897). Three generations of Russian intelligentsia discuss current issues. The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers. Conceptually, the intelligentsia status class arose in the late 18th century, during the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795). Etymologically,

result of a scientific drilling project of the Soviet Union on the Kola Peninsula

organization

settlement with restrictions on ingress and egress

numeral system derived from the Cyrillic script

Culturology or the science of culture is a branch of the social sciences concerned with the scientific understanding, description, analysis, and prediction of cultures as a whole. While ethnology and anthropology studied different cultural practices, such studies included diverse aspects: sociological, psychological, etc., and the need was recognized for a discipline focused exclusively on cultural aspects.

thumb|Sukhoi Company (JSC) head office/Sukhoi OKB OKB () is a transliteration of the Russian initials for "" (), which translates to "Experimental Design Bureau". It could also mean or "Special Design Bureau" in English. During the Soviet era, OKBs were closed institutions working on design and prototyping of advanced technology, usually for military applications. The corresponding English language term for such a bureau's activity is R&D or research and development.

Naukograd (, also technopole), meaning "science city", is a formal term for towns with high concentrations of research and development facilities in Russia and the Soviet Union, some specifically built by the Soviet Union for these purposes. Some of the towns were secret and were part of a larger system of closed cities in the USSR, many built by forced labour from the Soviet Gulag. In the Russian Federation in post-Soviet times, the term is used generally for about seventy towns that have concentrations of scientific research and production, and specifically, refers to a small number of towns

public university in Moscow, Russia

research expedition in Siberia (1733–1743)

vaccine rusa

thumb|right|Great Russian sokha, illustration by Nikolay Karazin, 1899 thumb|Sokha dating to the 19th to mid-20th century

ship type

mission control center for Roscosmos in Moscow

Expedition to study the Arctic, led by Eduard von Toll

academic publisher

overview of science and technology in Russia

Rusnano Group () is a Russian state-established and funded company. The Rusnano Group's mission is to create competitive nanotechnology-based industry in Russia. Rusnano invests directly and through indirect funds into all major knowledge-based areas where nanotechnology is widely implemented: electronics, optics, telecom, classic and renewable energy, healthcare and biotechnology, materials and metallurgy, engineering and chemistry.

unsupported hypothesis about effects of quantum spin

research expedition (1725-1730)

Gosfilmofond is a state film archive in Russia. It is the main film archive of the Russian Federation and a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). It is a state cultural institution — curator of films collection and other materials, engaged in collecting, creative production, cultural and educational, research, methodological and informational activities in the field of cinematography. The collection includes some historic American films. The Director-General is Nikolay Malakov.

central hydrometeorological and environmental agency of Russia

RELCOM or Relcom (), an acronym for "RELiable COMmunications" is a computer network in Russia.

kind of academic institution in Russia

Russian government agency in charge of the S&T information

institute of technology

scientific society

Russian Arctic expedition

type of national government agency

national meteorological service in Russia

Soviet American Gallium Experiment

technical university in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

research institute in Moscow, Russia

thumb|kremvax.DEMOS|demos[[.su, a follow-up server in 2007]] Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984, in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema of CWI (in Amsterdam) as an April Fool's prank—"because the notion that Usenet might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time".

public scientific organization

mathematics award