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Manfred baron von Ardenne (German pronunciation: [ˈmanfʁeːt fɔn aʁˈdɛn]; 20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher, autodidact in applied physics, and an inventor.
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Science and technology in the Soviet Union" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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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.
Computer class at Chkalovski Village School No. 2 in 1985–1986. The history of computing in the Soviet Union began in the late 1940s, [1] when the country began to develop its Small Electronic Calculating Machine (MESM) at the Kiev Institute of Electrotechnology in Feofaniya. [2]