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Soviet computers remained in common use in Russia until the mid-1990s. [56] Post-Soviet Russian personal computer market was initially dominated by foreign brands like Acer and IBM, which exported computers into Russia from manufacturing facilities abroad.
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]
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 ...
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist, the founder of Moscow State University. At the start of the 18th century the reforms of Peter the Great (founder of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Saint Petersburg State University) and the work of such champions as polymath Mikhail Lomonosov (the founder of Moscow State University) gave a great boost to the ...
This is the list of Soviet computer systems. The Russian abbreviation EVM (ЭВМ), present in some of the names below, means "electronic computing machine" (Russian: электронная вычислительная машина ).
The A-0 high-level compiler is invented by Grace Murray Hopper. April 1952: US IBM introduces the IBM 701, the first computer in its 700 and 7000 series of large scale machines with varied scientific and commercial architectures, but common electronics and peripherals. Some computers in this series remained in service until the 1980s.
Nowadays khokhloma is one of the symbols of Russia, and apart from its usage in making tableware, furniture and souvenirs, it can be found in the wider context, for example in paintings on Russian airliners. [49] Nikolay Diletsky's circle of fifths in Idea grammatiki musikiyskoy (Moscow, 1679) 1679 Circle of fifths
The United States and Russia : the beginning of relations, 1765-1815 (1980), 1260pp online primary sources; Bolkhovitinov, Nikolai N. The Beginnings of Russian-American Relations, 1775-1815. (Harvard University Press, 1975). Dulles, Foster Rhea. The road to Teheran: the story of Russia and America, 1781-1943 (1945) online; Fremon, David K.