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Zinaida Vissarionovna Ermol'eva, biochemist, independently synthesized penicillin during World War II. Eduard Eversmann, biologist and explorer, pioneer researcher of flora and fauna of southern Russia; Andrey Famintsyn, plant physiologist, inventor of grow lamp, developer of symbiogenesis theory
Many great scientists who worked in Imperial Russia, such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, continued work in the USSR and gave birth to Soviet science. The Soviet government made the development and advancement of science a national priority, emphasizing science at all levels of education and showering top scientists with honours.
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German specialists (scientists, engineers and technicians who worked in several areas) from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from ...
Many Russian scientists and university graduates left Russia for Europe or United States; this migration is known as a "brain drain". In the 2000s, on the wave of a new economic boom, the situation in the Russian science and technology has improved, and the government launched a campaign to encourage modernisation and innovation.
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 ...
This list of Russian physicists includes the famous physicists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev [a] [b] [c] (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906] – 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
Konstantin Konstantinovich Khrenov (Russian: Константин Константинович Хренов; 13 February 1894 – 12 October 1984) was a Soviet engineer and inventor who in 1932 introduced underwater welding and cutting of metals.