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Pages in category "Soviet inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 239 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
TT-33 semiautomatic handgun and SVT-40 self-loading rifle (main Soviet guns of World War II) A Soviet soldier with TT-33: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, (1857–1935) Russian Empire Soviet Union: spaceflight (theory principles that led to numerous inventions, derived the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation) Tsiolkovsky's drawings of astronaut in space ...
For the first time drag chutes were used in 1937 by the Soviet airplanes in the Arctic that provided support for the famous polar expeditions of the era. The drag chute allowed safe landings on small ice-floes. 1937 Drifting ice station. Soviet and Russian drifting ice stations are important contributors to exploration of the Arctic.
Soviet inventions (11 C, 238 P) Soviet science fiction (3 C, 8 P) Soviet Union and the Antarctic (1 C, 18 P) Space program of the Soviet Union (13 C, 35 P) U.
The Soviet Union detonated a hydrogen bomb in 1953, a mere ten months after the United States. Space exploration was also highly developed: in October 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit; in April 1961 a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man in space. The Soviets maintained a ...
Despite many technological achievements in the 19th and 20th centuries, since the time of Brezhnev stagnation Russia has lagged significantly behind the West in a number of technologies, especially those concerning energy conservation and consumer goods production. The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of state support for science.
Soviet inventions (11 C, 239 P) Sports originating in Russia (12 P) T. Ternary computers (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Russian inventions" The following 200 pages ...
This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race.. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.