File Novgorod Monument LOC 06268u.jpg 300px thumb The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod , featuring the statues and reliefs of the most celebrated people in the first 1000 years of Russian history . File 1000 Prosvetiteli.jpg 300px thumb Men of enlightenment at the Millennium of Russia File 1000 Gos cheloveki.jpg 300px thumb Statesmen at the Millennium of Russia File 1000 Voina cheloveki.jpg 300px thumb Military men and heroes at the Millennium of Russia File 1000 Art cheloveki.jpg 300px thumb Writers and artists at the Millennium of Russia This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , Imperial Russia , Russian Tsardom , the Grand Duchy of Moscow , and other predecessor states of Russia. Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. For more information, see the articles Russians and Demographics of Russia . For specific lists of Russians, see Category Lists of Russian people and Category Russian people . Statesmen and military Monarchs main Russian rulers Rurik , ruler of Novgorod , progenitor of the Rurikid Dynasty , traditionally the first ruler of Russia File 1000 Vladimir 2.jpg 90px thumb Vladimir the Great Oleg the Seer Oleg the Seer , conqueror of Kiev and founder of Kievan Rus , famous for his wars with Byzantium Igor of Kiev Igor the Old , the first historically well attested Rurikid ruler St. Olga Olga , the first woman ruler of Rus regent , the first Christian among Russian rulers Svyatoslav I , united all East Slavs under Kievan rule and destroyed the Khazar Khaganate Vladimir of Kiev Vladimir I the Great , turned from pagan to saint and enacted the Christianization of Kievan Rus Yaroslav of Kiev Yaroslav I the Wise , reigned in the period when Kievan Rus reached the zenith of its cultural flowering and military power, founder of Yaroslavl Vlad ... more details
This is a list of inventor s 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 CompactTOC8 seealso yes nobreak yes side yes refs yes A class wikitable style background ccc width 20 Portrait width 23 Person width 32 Inventions width 25 Image align center File Bruno abakanowicz.png 100px Bruno Abakanowicz br 1852 1900 br flag Russian Empire br flag France br Poland Lithuania origin Integraph , spirograph , parabolagraph ref cite book author Bruno Abdank Abakanowicz title Les int graphes year 1886 editor pages chapter chapterurl publisher Gauthier Villars location Paris id url format accessdate fr icon ref align center File Various Spirograph Designs.jpg center 120px thumb Spirograph designs align center Valerian Abakovsky br 1895 1921 br flag Russian Empire br flag Soviet Union br flag Latvia aerowagon ref cite web author title Invention of the Aerowagon year editor pages chapter chapterurl publisher What Poll? location id url http www.whatpoll.com inventors killed by their own inventions format accessdate 2010 04 11 ref align center align center Vitaly Abalakov br 1906 1986 br flag Russian Empire br flag Soviet Union Spring loaded camming device camming devices , Abalakov thread V thread gearless ice climbing anchor ref http www.bigwalls.net climb mechadv index.html The Mechanical Advantage ref ref http www.needlesports.com acatalog Mail Order Abalakov Thread 274.html Abalakov thread ref align center File Camalot number 6.JPG center 120px thumb Spring loaded camming device align c ... more details
File Lomonosovportrait.jpg thumb 220px Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University . This list of Russia n scientist s includes scientists associated with modern Russian Federation , the Soviet Union , Imperial Russia , Russian Tsardom , Grand Duchy of Moscow and other predecessor states of Russia. Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states as well as the people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia. Polymaths File Baer Karl von 1792 1876.jpg 100px thumb Karl Baer Baer Karl Ernst von Baer , polymath naturalist, formulated the geological Baer s law on river erosion and embryological Baer s laws , founder of the Russian Entomological Society , co founder of the Russian Geographical Society Alexander Borodin , chemist and composer, author of the famous opera Prince Igor , discovered Borodin reaction , co discovered Aldol reaction Alexander Chizhevsky , interdisciplinary scientist, biophysicist, philosopher and artist, founder of heliobiology and modern air ionification , Russian cosmist Johann Gottlieb Georgi , naturalist, chemist, mineralogist, ethnographer and explorer, the first to describe omul fish of Baikal , published the first full scale work on ethnography of indigenous peoples of Russia File Levitzky Lvov 1770.jpg thumb 95px Nikolay Lvov Lvov Mikhail Lomonosov , polymath scientist, artist and inventor founder of the Moscow State University proposed the law of conservation of matter disproved the phlogiston theory invented coaxial rotor and the first helicopter invented the night vision telescope and off axis reflecting telescope discovered the atmosphere of Venus suggested the organic matter organic origin of soil , peat , coal , petroleum and amber pioneered the research of atmospheric electricity coined the term physical chemistry the first to record the freezing of mercury element mercury co ... more details
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