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Soviet technology was most highly developed in the fields of nuclear physics, where the arms race with the West convinced policy makers to set aside sufficient resources for research. Due to a crash program directed by Igor Kurchatov (based on spies of the Cambridge Five), the Soviet Union was the second nation to develop an atomic bomb, in ...
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) ... German influence on Soviet rocketry;
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 ...
Soviet Union portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inventions from the Soviet Union . See also: Category:Russian inventions and Category:Ukrainian inventions
Soviet inventions (11 C, 239 P) Sports originating in Russia (12 P) T. Ternary computers (1 C, 10 P) ... Science tourism; Shchelkin spiral; Shielded metal arc welding;
Space historian Asif Siddiqi, whose book Challenge to Apollo: the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945–1974 was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best works on space exploration, [64] takes a more balanced approach by acknowledging Nazi Germany rocket technology and involvement of German scientists and engineers was an essential ...
Still, Tsiolkovsky supported the Bolshevik revolution, and eager to promote science and technology, the new Soviet government elected him a member of the Socialist Academy in 1918. [16]: 1–2, 8 He worked as a high school mathematics teacher until retiring in 1920 at the age of 63. In 1921, he received a lifetime pension. [16]: 1–2, 8